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PRACTICE 12
PRACTICE 12 1. Look! A cricket is crawling / crawls toward the leaves of the red flower.
Underline the correct alternative.

2. In the film The Karate Kid, Jaden moves / is moving to China after / until his mother
gets / is getting a job there.
3. When / Before coral is dying / dies, it leaves / is leaving its skeleton behind, and new coral
builds / is building on top.
4. Scientists are trying / try to protect the saiga antelope in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert these days.

5. Before / Until I translate / am translating a text, I am reading / read the whole of it to give it the
sense of original.

6. Ice sheet that covers much of Greenland becomes / is becoming thinner because of global
warming.

7. Do you know that the metal called caesium explodes / is exploding as soon as it contacts /
is contacting with water?

8. Meat eater plants usually grow / are growing in places with soil that doesn’t offer much food
value.

9. In this photograph, I am holding / hold a koala during our trip to Australia.
10. We always unpack our bags and rush to the seaside before / as soon as we arrive at the
holiday resort.
11. Bacterium wait / are waiting until there are enough of them before / until they invade our cells.
12. While I am going / go to school, I am taking / take the bus every morning.

13. The baby cries / is crying because her four-year-old cousin is trying / tries to take her doll.
14. Every day, I am taking / take my dog to the park, and what he enjoys / is enjoying the most is
running after its plastic ball.
15. William hates / is hating eating meat, and he thinks / is thinking he gets the necessary
nutrients from mushrooms and vegetables.
16. The lion at the zoo roars / is roaring to the visitors as it feels a little bit tense today.

PRACTICE 13
PRACTICE 13 1. When my father gets angry, he ________________________________________________________.
Complete the sentences using “Simple Present” or “Present Continuous”.

2. _________________________________________________________ every day after she has dinner.

3. Because she always complains about her life, ___________________________________________.
4. ________________________________________________________, but he isn’t listening to them.
5. As soon as the teacher enters the classroom, ____________________________________________.

6. ________________________________________________________, but she doesn’t spend much.
7. He cannot answer the phone now as ___________________________________________________.
8. Until I finish my work, _________________________________________________________________.

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