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We also use the present simple to express programmed and planned events in the future; and the present
continuous to express plans or arrangements in the near future.
Examples:
Schools start again in February.
My plane takes off at 9 o’clock tomorrow.
My team plays in the finals next week. An adverb describes the verb, and
We are having a meeting next week. it answers the question ”how”.
Mary’s getting married in June. Adverbs usually go after verbs.
Our boss is coming next Monday. He learns quickly.
She sings softly.
F. Complete the sentences with the present simple or present continuous.
1. The plane in three hours. (leave)
2. My mother is in Germany, so I dinner tonight. (cook)
3. you to the party this afternoon? (go)
4. My computer course in two hours. (start)
5. the bus to the city centre at this bus-stop? (stop)
6. Who you to the airport tomorrow morning? (take)
7. The couple at the hotel in an hour. (arrive)
8. When the shopping centre ? (open)
9. My father us to the zoo in the afternoon. (take)
10. The children football on Saturday afternoon. (play)
11. Don’t forget! The Tailors this evening. (come)
12. I think the train in 10 minutes. (depart)
G. Underline the correct adjective or adverb.
1. Jim is a good / well driver. He drives careful / carefully.
2. Kevin walked through the living room quiet / quietly.
3. If you speak slow / slowly, we can understand you.
4. Our students are always silent / silently in the library.
5. Helen is in a bad mood today. She is speaking angry / angrily.
6. Jane was very happy / happily yesterday.
7. The children are playing noisy / noisily in the park.
8. Our English teacher speaks English fluent / fluently.
9. I want to spell words correct / correctly.
10. Ali wants to understand people good / well.
11. Our students want to understand English grammar complete / completely.
12. Tom ate his lunch quick / quickly yesterday.
13. Our boss is very generous / generously because he pays us generous / generously.
14. My teacher always dresses nice / nicely.
15. A tortoise moves slow / slowly.
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