1.  Choose the present simple or present continuous to complete the sentences below.

11. In Johannesburg most people speakare speaking at least five languages.

22. Languages are disappearingdisappear very fast. Half of world's languages will disappear by 2100.

33. You can't see Tim now; he has's having a bath.

44. Please keep quiet, I 'm listeninglisten to the radio. You know I 'm listeninglisten to the news in the mornings.

55. What time does the first train leaveis the first train leaving?

66. I never wear'm never wearing a scarf, but today I 'm wearingwear one because it's unusually cold.

77. I finished watching the series you recommended. Now I 'm watchingwatch another one.

88. What are you doingdo you do tonight? Would you like to come and watch the game?

99. Nobody is thinkingthinks they will win the match.

1010. You look worried. What are you thinkingdo you think?

2.  Choose the variant. Remember the tense: 

A: We ______ to the cinema tonight.  B: ______ to the cinema?

a.are going / Do you often go

b.go / Do you often go

c.are going / Are you often going

2A: What time ______ this afternoon?  B: I don't know. We ______ tomorrow.

a.does the train leave / leave

b.does the train leave / are leaving

c.is the train leaving / leave

3A: ______ ?   B: Yes, but I ______ to quit.

a.Are you smoking / try

b.Do you smoke / try

c.Do you smoke / 'm trying

4A: I ______ on holiday two or three times a year.   B: That's great! And where______ this year?

a.go / do you go

b.'m going / do you go

c.go / are you going

5I think it's better to stay. It ______ and we ______ an umbrella.

a.'s raining / don't have

b.rains / don't have

c.'s raining / aren't having

Exercise 3

Fill in the gaps with the verbs in brackets in the present simple or present continuous.

Rainforests 1  (disappear), and we all 2  (know) that humans are the main cause of this destruction. Every year we 3  (cut down) an area of rainforest the size of New Jersey.  Every hour we 4  (destroy) 6000 acres of rainforest (that’s 4000 football fields). What we 5  (not realise) is that we 6  (destroy) the planet where our children and grandchildren have to live. We 7  (need) the rainforests; they 8  (produce) oxygen and 9  (eliminate) carbon dioxide (C02), cleaning the atmosphere.

But why 10  (the forests/disappear) so quickly? Well, experts 11  (agree) that there are two main reasons. The most important is human activity. Big companies 12  (cut down) more and more trees every day and this 13  (cause) damage to the land. The way of life in the rainforests 14  (also/change) because of climate change. Now there is less rain and this 15  (cause) more and more trees to die. As a consequence of the droughts, the risk of fires 16  (increase) dramatically.

Fortunately, it 17  (seem) that now some governments 18  (begin) to understand the problem, and they 19  (try) to control these activities. Some of them really 20  (want) to put an end to this problem, although a few big companies with a lot of power are in their way.