Progress check
Endangered animals
1 Write the animal words.
Adverbs of manner
2 Choose the correct words.
1 Tigers can run fast.
2 Please be quiet!
3 Elephants can swim well.
4 Is this snake safe?
5 Cats aren’t good swimmers. They swim badly.
6 Some frogs are very loud. You can hear them at night.
Present continuous
3 Complete the sentences with the present continuous affirmative form of the verbs in brackets.
1 We’re sitting in the park.
2 David is studying Chinese.
3 I ‘m working at the moment.
4 The dogs are eating in the kitchen.
5 Sarah is having breakfast.
4 Make the sentences in exercise 3 negative.
5 Write present continuous questions. Then write short answers.
Present simple and continuous
6 Choose the correct answers.
1 Thousands of people visit the zoo every week.
a) are visiting
b) visit
2 At the moment the monkeys are having lunch.
a) have
b) are having
3 They usually eat at two o’clock in the afternoon,
a) usually eat
b) are usually eating
4 The wolves are sleeping now.
a) sleep
b) are sleeping
5 Wolves don’t sleep at night.
a) aren’t sleeping
b) don’t sleep
6 What are the tigers doing at the moment?
a) do the tigers do
b) are the tigers doing
Cumulative grammar
7 Complete the text with these words.
be live about swimming eat are die going
Great white sharks (1) live near the coast c southern Australia. They (2) are usually about four metres long and they’ve (3) got a lot of teeth. They normally (4) eat fish and seals, but they can (5) be very dangerous for humans too. Every year, about 30 people (6) die if shark attacks. So, if you like (7) swimming in the sea be careful! How (8) about going to a swimming pool instead?