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Step 1 : Complete the questions with the correct question words.

Step 2 : Interview a friend using your questions. Record the answers.

Step 3 : Tell the class some things about the person you interviewed.

Step 4 : Write a paragraph about one of the topics you asked about.

1. How often (play)

volleyball?

a. are you playing

b. do you play

2. What you (do) on

Sundays?

a. are you doing

b. do you do

a. bored

b. boring

3.Why (become)caviar more and more

expensive?

a. becomes

b. is caviar becoming

4. My cousin (stay)

with me for a few

days. How many

cousins do

you have?

a. is staying

b. stays

5. What a zookeeper

(do)?

a. is doing

b. does do

9. What (do) at the

moment?

a. are you doing

b. do you do

13. You (smell)

something funny as

well?

a. Are you smelling

b. Do you smell

17. You (like) what

we are doing now?

a. Are you liking

b. Do you like

6. You (sit) on a

chair now?

a. Are you sitting

b. Do you sit

7. You (live) with

your parents?

a. are you living

b. do you live

8. Your family (go)

shopping tomorrow?

a. Is your

family

going

b. Does your

family go

10. What time ()

the train to Moscow

(leave)?

a. is the train leaving

b. does the train

leave

11. What (be) the

weather like in

December?

a. is

b. is the weather

being

12. You (watch) TV

every day?

a. are you watching

b. do you watch

14. What time you

(get up) in the

morning?

a. are you getting

b. do you get

15. What you usually

(have) for

breakfast?

a. are you usually

having

b. do youusuallyhave

16. You (understand)

what Im saying?

a. Are you

understanding

b. Do you understand

18. What you (do)

tomorrow?

a. are you doing

b. do you do

19. What time (go)

to bed on Sundays?

a. are you going

b. do you go

20. (Have) you a

good time?

a. Are you having

b. Do you have

7/30/2019 Grammar Meets Conversation 8 Present Simple vs Continuous 8 Asking for General Information 77804d48ab2e41

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Step 1 : Complete the questions with the correct question words.

Step 2 : Interview a friend using your questions. Record the answers.

Step 3 : Tell the class some things about the person you interviewed.

Step 4 : Write a paragraph about one of the topics you asked about.

1. How often (play)

volleyball?

a. are you playing

b. do you play

2. What you (do) on

Sundays?

a. are you doing

b. do you do

a. bored

b. boring

3.Why (become)caviar more and more

expensive?

a. becomes

b. is caviar becoming

4. My cousin (stay)

with me for a few

days. How many

cousins do

you have?

a. is staying

b. stays

5. What a zookeeper

(do)?

a. is doing

b. does do

9. What (do) at the

moment?

a. are you doing

b. do you do

13. You (smell)

something funny as

well?

a. Are you smelling

b. Do you smell

17. You (like) what

we are doing now?

a. Are you liking

b. Do you like

6. You (sit) on a

chair now?

a. Are you sitting

b. Do you sit

7. You (live) with

your parents?

a. are you living

b. do you live

8. Your family (go)

shopping tomorrow?

a. Is your

family

going

b. Does your

family go

10. What time ()

the train to Moscow(leave)?

a. is the train leaving

b. does the train

leave

11. What (be) the

weather like inDecember?

a. is

b. is the weather

being

12. You (watch) TV

every day?

a. are you watching

b. do you watch

14. What time you

(get up) in the

morning?

a. are you getting

b. do you get

15. What you usually

(have) for

breakfast?

a. are you usually

having

b. do youusuallyhave

16. You (understand)

what Im saying?

a. Are you

understanding

b. Do you understand

18. What you (do)

tomorrow?

a. are you doing

b. do you do

19. What time (go)

to bed on Sundays?

a. are you going

b. do you go

20. (Have) you a

good time?

a. Are you having

b. Do you have

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Answer Key

1. b

2. b

3. b (sturgeons are getting rare; overfishing)

4. a

5. b (take care of animals, feed them, clean their cages etc.)

6. a

7. b

8. a

9. a

10. b (check timetable)

11. a (cold, snowy, rainy)

12. b

13. b

14. b

15. b

16. b

17. b

18. a

19. b

20. a