Transcript Review Session Unit 1: Present Time EXERCISES 1, 2, 4, & 6

Review Session
Unit 1: Present Time
EXERCISES 1, 2, 4, & 6
Exercise 1: Present-Time Verbs
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Have you read – present perfect, in the past did you read a
book that you can recommend in the present
Begins – simple present, habitual “often”
See – simple present, action that happens often, “these days”
Are not necessarily reading – present progressive, describing
the action
Read – simple present, fact
Have become – present perfect, became popular in the past,
but still popular in the present
Like – simple present, stative verb
Are – simple present, Be usually describes people, stative
verb
Don’t need - simple present, non-action verb
Exercise 1: Present Time Verbs
10. Don’t weigh – simple present, stative verb
11. Always have – simple present, habitual
12. Are traveling – present progressive, ongoing action
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in the present
Prefer – simple present, stative verb
Feel – simple present, stative verb, not the act of
feeling
Smell – simple present, stative verb, not the act of
smelling
Enjoy – simple present, fact
Exercise 1: Present Time Verbs
17. Have been contemplating – present perfect
progressive, “for a while now,”
18. Have decided – present perfect, completed action,
decided in the past not to get one, but affects the
present time
19. Love – simple present, stative
Exercise 2: Simple Present and Present Progressive
Verbs
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Are contemplating – right now, “at this moment”
Is looking for – ongoing action
Answers – fact
Solves – fact
Have -fact
Communicate – fact
Like – fact
Train - fact
Pay - fact
Are trying – ongoing action
Exercise 4: Action and Non-action Verbs
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Are taking – action, “this morning”, on going
Need – non-action, “everyday life”, habitual
Talk – action but it’s still focused on “everyday life”
Don’t use – action but it’s still focused on “everyday
life”
Text – action but it’s still focused on “everyday life”
Send – action but it’s still focused on “everyday
life”
It’s ringing – happening now, interrupting action
is happening – happening now
Exercise 4: Action and Non-action Verbs
9. Love – non action, “everyday life”, habitual
10. Travel – action, but “everyday life”, habitual
11. Drive - action, but “everyday life”, habitual
12. Get - action, but “everyday life”, fact
13. Tells - action, but “everyday life”, fact, subject verb
agreement
14. Knows - action, but “everyday life”, fact, subject
verb agreement
15. Directs - action, but “everyday life”, fact, subject
verb agreement
Exercise 4: Action and Non-action Verbs
16. Change – action, “everyday life”, fact
17. Want – non action
18. Finds – action, “everyday life”, fact, subject verb
agreement
19. Am asking – action, “right now”
20. Is giving – action, “right now”
21. Download – action, “everyday life”, habitual
22. Get – action, “everyday life”, habitual
23. Write – action, “everyday life”, habitual
24. Record – action, “everyday life”, habitual
Exercise 4: Action and Non-action Verbs
25. Weighs – non-action
26. Doesn’t do – asking a factual question
25. Negative – not/do = does not do
26. Usually, need do before the negative except for Be verbs and
modals
27. Does not take – action but stating a fact
28. Is not – action but stating a fact
25. Negative – not/Be = is not (remember you have to change be
to agree with the subject)
26. Use not after Be verb to make it negative
Exercise 6: Present Time Verbs
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Am waiting – “right now”, action in progress
Have been waiting – Started waiting in the past but still
waiting now, “for 15 minutes”
Is bothering – ongoing action
Have you been – Be can’t be used in progressive so use
present perfect to show it started in the past
Have you had – Have can’t be used in progressive so
use present perfect to show it started in the past
Know – fact
Have taken – completed action in the past, “already”
Realize – fact
Exercise 6: Present Time Verbs
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Am not – Be is non-action, “at this moment”
Is not looking – action in progress, “at this moment”
Am sitting – action in progress, “at this moment”
Is sitting - action in progress, “at this moment”
Have entered – competed action, emphasizing result
Input – fact
Ask – sequence
Do – sequence
Don’t leave – sequence
Exercise 6: Present Time Verbs
18. Don’t need - fact
19. Have – fact
20. Are using – action in progress
21. Am sending – action in progress, “right now”
22. Like – non-action
23. Saves – fact
24. Likes – non-action