English world 3 workbook

Present simple vs. present continuous

Complete the sentences. Use the present simple or present continuous form of the verbs.

e Question tags

 

Complete each question tag. Write one word in each space.

 

1 He’s just a child, isn’t he?

 

2 It isn’t easy being a teenager, it?

 

3 They’re only 3 and 4 years old - they’re just

toddlers, ...they?

 

4 Leaving a tap on wastes water, .... it?

 

5 You recycled that paper, you?

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I'm Christy Bell, and I'm in Year 11 at a school in Manchester. This is my big GCSE exam year, so I \..don't_haye___ (not have) as much free tirpe as I did before. When 12.

 

(not do) my homework or studying for tests, I try to see my friends. Saturday night is really the only time when everyone's free, because most of my friends3.

 

(work) on Saturdays. I have a job in a home and, garden centre, but now it4 '(get) harder to find

 

enough time to do that and all of my school work too. 15 (need) the money, though, because I don’t get any pocket money from

 

my mum. 16 (do) some

 

babysitting, which, is good because

 

I usually7 (get) my

 

school work done at the same time, and I get paid for it!

 

Most of the boys in my class seem to spend a lot of their free time on computers. Mpre and more of them % y ...... (get) computer games,

 

or doing online gaming, but I don’t like them much. And these days people'9'. .... ... (use) instam

 

messaging to talk to friends, but I 10. (prefer) texting my

 

friends on my mobile - I hate sitting in front of a computer for hours, i do enough of that with my homework!!

6 We can’t "go on destroying the rainforests,

 

.... we?

 

7 Your sister's just had a baby,...... ;she?

 

8 We shouldn’t drop litter on the streets,

 

we?

 

9 The atmosphere's become very polluted,

 

it?

 

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10 One day you'll be a pensioner, you?

 

 Describing someone's age and the environment

Find twelve words in the wordsnake. Write them in the correct columns.