Present Simple · Exercises
C1Advanced practice
Emphasis and inversion for a more polished style.
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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
- C1 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 C1
- He/she/it + -s
- Negatives: don’t / doesn’t
- Yes/no questions
- 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…)
- Emphatic do / does
- Inversion (Rarely does she…)
- 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.
I won't relax until my colleague _____ (get) home.
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I won't relax until my colleague gets home.
After when, as soon as, until, before and after we use the present simple to talk about the future — not will.
Write a question about the highlighted words.
He loves salad.
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What does he love?
Wh- questions: question word + do/does + subject + base verb (Where does she work?). With be: question word + am/is/are + subject (Where are they?).
Complete the sentence.
Little _____ I understand what is at stake.
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Little do I understand what is at stake.
Little + do/does + subject + base verb means “they have no idea”: Little does she know…
Write the verb in the present simple passive.
Glass bottles _____ (recycle) here.
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Glass bottles are recycled here.
Present simple passive: am / is / are + past participle (for facts and routines when who does it isn’t important).
Rewrite the sentence with the adverb in the right place.
Ines is good at maths. (rarely)
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Ines is rarely good at maths.
Frequency adverbs go before the main verb (She always walks…) but after be (She is always late).
Write the question tag.
Ines doesn't buy new clothes every so often, _____?
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Ines doesn't buy new clothes every so often, does she?
Positive sentence → negative tag; negative sentence → positive tag. Repeat the auxiliary (do/does or am/is/are) with a pronoun.