Present Simple · Exercises
B2Upper intermediate practice
Timetables, time clauses and natural replies.
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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
- Frequency adverbs
- Wh- questions
- Subject questions (Who lives…?)
- Question tags
- Simple vs. continuous & state verbs
- So do I / Neither do I
- Timetables and schedules
- Time clauses (when, until…)
Need a refresher? Read the present simple guide with rules, tables and audio examples.
Sample exercises
A taste of what’s inside. In practice mode every exercise is freshly generated.
Write a question about the highlighted words.
Most teenagers volunteer at an animal shelter.
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Who volunteers at an animal shelter?
When who asks about the subject, don’t use do/does, and the verb takes -s: Who lives here?
Write the verb in the present simple or present continuous.
Yuki _____ (swim) at the pool at the weekend.
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Yuki swims at the pool at the weekend.
Habits and routines (every day, usually…) use the present simple.
Choose the correct question tag.
My grandfather doesn't prefer the bus, _____?
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My grandfather doesn't prefer the bus, does he?
Positive sentence → negative tag; negative sentence → positive tag. Repeat the auxiliary (do/does or am/is/are) with a pronoun.
Write the verb in the present simple.
Theo _____ (fix) bikes every day.
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Theo fixes bikes every day.
Verbs ending in -ch, -sh, -s, -x, -z or -o add -es: fix → fixes.
Choose the correct form.
Leo _____ (remember) names.
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Leo remembers names.
“remember” is a state verb, so we don’t normally use it in the continuous.
Write a question about the highlighted words.
They make the bed.
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What do they make?
Wh- questions: question word + do/does + subject + base verb (Where does she work?). With be: question word + am/is/are + subject (Where are they?).