Simple Present Tense Practice Activities

Useful activities for simple present tense learners

1. Come   Fix   Buy   Play   Fly   Say   Do   Pass   Teach   Go   Drive   Push   Sing   cry   catch   What   On what   when   Under what.   Where   How far   Why   How much   who   How many   which   Which one   Present simple. Activity-1 write the following words in Singular form. Activity-02 Use the following verbs to fill in the blanks. Write the correct verb form according to the subject read/learn/wash/do/ love a) Father _________________ newspaper every day. 6) kamal _________________ his car once a week. C) They _________________ it correctly. d) Mother _________________ me every much. e) We _________________ English every day. Activity-11 Use Don't/Doesn ’ t correctly. _____________ she study English every day? _____________ it barks at night? You believe? _____________ Kamal have a good friend? _____________ he eat ice-cream? _____________ Shanika look at you? _____________ they use this car? _____________ this cat catch mice? _____________ everybody like to live here? _____________ you love me? Activity 11 Write the following sentence in tag questions. a) She knows it, _____________ b) They learn English, _____________ c) He doesn't come here, _____________ d) You have a car, _____________ e) Mother cleans the room, _____________ f) The bus comes on time, _____________ g) You help me, _____________ h) Father does it correctly, _____________ i ) The dog des not bark at you, _____________ j) She doesn't love you, _____________ Activity-12 Write the Sinhala meanings of the given words and phrases. Actmity-13 Make meaningful Sentences. a) does/he/what/ know? ________________________________________________________________ b) do / they/do/what/ here? ________________________________________________________________ c) far/how/it/from / here / is? ________________________________________________________________ d) many/how/does / have / Kamal / shirts? ________________________________________________________________ e) with/do/go/to/you/whom/school? ________________________________________________________________ f) don't/why/go/ there / you / now? ________________________________________________________________ g) whom/from/do/learn/ English / you? ________________________________________________________________ h) is / the/where/ school? ________________________________________________________________ i ) does/where/ she / work? ________________________________________________________________ j) much/how / water / the patent/does / drink? ________________________________________________________________ Activity 14 Convert the following sentences to Negative forms, positive questions and negative questions. a) She works here. ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ b) Mother gets up at 04:00 a.m. ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ c) They do it correctly ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ c) It runs fast ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ d) The teacher admires them. ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ Activity 15 Put the following Sentences to English. එයා හැමදාම මෙහෙ එනවා . _______________________________________________ ඔවුන් ජීවත් වන්නේ එංගලන්තයේ ය. _______________________________________________ අපි හැමදාම ඉංග්‍රීසි ඉගෙන ගන්නවා . _______________________________________________ කමල් අපිට උදව් කරනවා . _______________________________________________ හැමෝම ඉංග්‍රීසි දන්නේ නැහැ . _______________________________________________ ඔහු වෙහෙස මහන්සි වී වැඩ කරන්නේ නැත . _______________________________________________ තාත්තා දෙමළ දන්නවද ? _______________________________________________ උන් හැමදාම ක්‍රිකට් ගහනවද ? _______________________________________________ ඇය මෙහි එන්නේ නැද්ද ? _______________________________________________ රුවන්ට ගෙයක් තියෙනවද ? _______________________________________________ කවුද මේ ගැන දන්නේ ? _______________________________________________ ඇය පාසල් යන්නේ කා සමඟද ? _______________________________________________ ඔබ කොපමණ ජලය පානය කරනවාද ? _______________________________________________ අමිත් වැඩ කරනවා නේද ? _______________________________________________ එයාලත් ඒක දන්නවද ? _______________________________________________ එයා හැමදාම මෙහෙ එන්නේ නෑ නේද ? _______________________________________________

2. Activity-03 Fill in the following blanks with the correct form of the verb given in the brackets. a) Mother _________________ the compound in the morning. ( Swe b) The teacher _________________ English well (teach) c) It _________________ here in December. (rain) d) Everybody _________________ ice cream. (eat) e) They _________________ in Colombo. (live) f) We _________________ him very well. (know) 9) Kamal and I _________________ together. (work) h) He _________________ many vehicles. (use) i ) Ruwan _________________ a red car. (have) j ) My brother _________________ two white shirts. (have) Activity - 04 Use do not/does not correctly. a) They _________________ work here every day. b) Shanika _________________ speak English well. c) The dog _________________ eat meat. d) We _________________ encourage them. e) Father _________________ Know Tamil. f) Everybody _________________ sing songs beautifully. g) My friend _________________ have a car. h ) Amith _________________ get late every day. i ) This president _________________ help the poor. j) You _________________ have a good friend.

3. Activity-05 * Write the following Sentences in negative form. a) I have many problems about this lesson. _______________________________________________________________________ b) She has a beautiful house in Kandy. _______________________________________________________________________ c) Everybody writes essays well. _______________________________________________________________________ d) Shanika goes to town on Sundays. _______________________________________________________________________ e) My pet likes to sleep here. _______________________________________________________________________ f) the teacher Comes ad 6.30 am. _______________________________________________________________________ g) Our School Starts at 4.30 am. _______________________________________________________________________ h) It rains here heavily. _______________________________________________________________________ i ) I know who he is. _______________________________________________________________________ j) They admire me. _______________________________________________________________________ Activity - 06 Write the sinhala meaning of the following adverbs of frequency. a) always b) Often c) occasionally d) never e) seldom f) rarely g) sometimes

4. Activity-07 Write seven complete sentences using the above adverbs. a) I _______________________________________________________________________ b) You _______________________________________________________________________ c) They _______________________________________________________________________ d) We _______________________________________________________________________ e) He _______________________________________________________________________ f) She _______________________________________________________________________ g) It _______________________________________________________________________ Activity-08 Fill in the blanks using Do / Does correctly. ______________ she have a hat? ______________ they work hard? c) ______________ study every day? d) ______________ it eat meat? e) ______________ you know Sinhala? f) ______________ Chanchala sing songs? f) ______________ he live in Kandy? g) ______________ everybody admire you? h) ______________ your father help you? i ) ______________ the boy speak English well?

5. Activity-09 Write the following Sentences in question form a) I live with them. _______________________________________________________________________ b) She runs fast. _______________________________________________________________________ c) It barks at them. _______________________________________________________________________ d) We play cricket in the evening. _______________________________________________________________________ e) He uses many cars. _______________________________________________________________________ f) Kamal opens the gate at 8:38 a.m. _______________________________________________________________________ g). The teacher teaches us science. _______________________________________________________________________ h) The girl cleans the room everyday. _______________________________________________________________________ Activity-10 Convert the following Sentences to negative questions. a) These children come early. _______________________________________________________________________ b) The boy reads books. _______________________________________________________________________ c) It drinks milk. _______________________________________________________________________ d) She has a story book. _______________________________________________________________________ e) Birds fly in the sky. _______________________________________________________________________ f) Samith has a beautiful garden. _______________________________________________________________________ g) The driver drives the car carefully. _______________________________________________________________________ h) You love me _______________________________________________________________________ i ) Father comes home on Sundays. _______________________________________________________________________ j) We accept it. _______________________________________________________________________