Present Simple · Exercises
B2Upper intermediate practice
Timetables, time clauses and natural replies.
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- Practice10 exercises at your own pace
- Time Attack60 seconds, as many as you can
- Survival3 lives, harder as you go
- Tense SortDrag sentences into their tense — 60 seconds
- Timelines10 sentences to match to their timelines
- B2 Boss12 hits before you lose 3 lives
- Irregular MatchPair verbs with their past forms — 60 seconds
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What you’ll practise at B2
- He/she/it + -s
- Spelling: -es and -ies
- Negatives: don’t / doesn’t
- Yes/no questions
- Short answers
- Frequency adverbs
- Wh- questions
- Subject questions (Who lives…?)
- Question tags
- Simple vs. continuous & state verbs
- So do I / Neither do I
- Passive: is made, are cleaned
- Timetables and schedules
- Time clauses (when, until…)
- Timelines: what the tense means
Need a refresher? Learn the present simple: rules, tables and audio examples.
Sample exercises
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Choose the correct form.
We'll leave as soon as the students _____ (land).
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We'll leave as soon as the students land.
After when, as soon as, until, before and after we use the present simple to talk about the future — not will.
Put the words in order to make a statement.
Omar / at / ever / nine / hardly / arrives
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Omar hardly ever arrives at nine.
Frequency adverbs go before the main verb (She always walks…) but after be (She is always late).
Choose the correct form.
My colleagues _____ (drink) orange juice now.
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My colleagues are drinking orange juice now.
For actions happening now (right now, at the moment) use the present continuous: am/is/are + -ing.
Choose the correct short answer.
Does your grandfather volunteer at the hospital in the morning? — Yes, _____.
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Does your grandfather volunteer at the hospital in the morning? — Yes, he does.
Short answers repeat do/does, not the main verb: Yes, she does. / No, she doesn’t.
Rewrite the sentence with the adverb in the right place.
Most teenagers use social media. (hardly ever)
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Most teenagers hardly ever use social media.
Frequency adverbs go before the main verb (She always walks…) but after be (She is always late).
Write a question about the highlighted words.
My flatmates are in the kitchen.
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Where are my flatmates?
Wh- questions: question word + do/does + subject + base verb (Where does she work?). With be: question word + am/is/are + subject (Where are they?).