Exercise 1: Put the verbs in brackets. Present simple or present continuous. 1. I (not/belong) to this particular government committee. 2. Hurry? The bus (come). I (not/want) to miss it. 3. Martha is a vegetarian. She (not/eat) meat. 4. I (look) for the manager. I can’t find him anywhere. 5. We are successful because we (take) the time to talk to our customers. 6. John (deaf) with all the enquiries about sales. 7. At the moment we (make) a training video for Siemens. 8. (you/know) what Mr. Brown is doing? He is not in his office. 9. Unemployment (fail) and is now down to 5.6%. 10. Jane is doing some research in the library. She needs it for a book she (write). Exercise 2: Put the verbs in brackets: Present perfect or present perfect progressive. 1. How long (you/know) Gerry? 2. You look dirty. What (you/ do) all day? 3. How many times (Charles/ visit) New York? 4. She (learn) French words for hours, but she still doesn’t remember all of them. 5. The children (watch) videos for two hours. 6. (he/ study) hard today? 7. Sorry, I’m late, (you/ wait) for long? 8. We (not/ see) Lisa recently. 9. He (write) his essay all day, but he hasn’t finished yet. 10. How long (he/ wait) for her?