Topic 1
Exercise 1
Fill in the blanks with the Present Tenses.
Frogs
are amphibians. They ________ (1. live)
on land and in water. Adult frogs_______
(2. not have) tails but they ________(3. have) strong hind legs. So, they can jump very far and they also
_________ (4. use) their hind legs for swimming. They can actually _______ (5. jump) many times greater than the length of
their body. However, they have short
front legs.
Most frogs have thin, moist
skin. Some frogs ________ (6. have)
poison glands in their skin. The poison
_________(7. ooze) onto the skin and
_________ (8. help) protect the skin.
The
fairly good eyesight __________(9. enable) them to capture food easily and
avoid enemies. The bulging eyes of the
frog ________(10. enable) it to see all
directions. Frogs can _______ (11. pull)
in their eyeballs deep into the sockets.
This action __________ (12. close)
the upper and lower eyelids.
A
frog _________ (13. produce) “Croak!
Croak! ”sound. It ______ (14. have)
vocal cords lying between the mouth and lungs.
Little Tom Chieng likes frogs very much. He __________ (15. look) at the frogs jumping
around in his garden with his friends now.
Mark ___________ (16. catch) 3 frogs in his bag as he wants to bring
back to keep, too. He likes frogs
too. He _________ (17. think) frogs are interesting. He ___________ (18. buy) many books about
frogs. He ___________ (19. write) a
story about frogs too. He is half-way
through and will finish the story soon. Tom,
Sammy and Mark _____________ (20. run) after the frogs now. They have a lot of fun.
Exercise 2
Fill in the blanks with the
Present Tenses.
Aminah’s mother, Puan Mona is a florist. She ________ (1. have) a floral shop. She _________ (2. sell) flowers in
bouquets. She also __________(3.
arrange) flowers in vases or baskets.
She _____________ (4. arrange) the flowers in a vase now now. She __________ (5. arrange) 3 vases of
flowers already. Madam Tiong, her old customer __________(6. order) 5 vases of flowers. Madam Tiong and her daughter ________ (7.
like) the assortment of flowers like orchids, jasmines, daffodils, dahlias,
roses, carnations, and ixora. Puan Mona ______ (8. try) to include as many
as possible in each floral arrangement.
There
________ (9. be) a great variety of flowers in her shop. Besides the ones mentioned above, there ________ (10. be) other kinds of flowers like Tulips, Azaleas,
Lilacs, Lilies, Orange touch-me-nots,
Marigolds, Yellow Dogtooth Violets, Sunflowers, Buttercups, Fiddle-necks,
Daisies, African Violets and so on.
There _______ (11. be) many customers frequenting her shop daily. They ________ (12. enjoy) watching the
flowers and usually __________ (13. buy) some flowers home. Aminah _______ (14.
help) her mother whenever
she ________ (15. Be) free. She is in the shop now and ___________ (16.
talk) to a customer. She ____________
(17. explain) to her. (1)
Exercise 3
Fill in the blanks with the
Present Tenses.
Rahim’s father is a fishmonger. He ________ (1. sell) fish in market every day.
There
_________ (2. be) a great variety of
fishes and other seafood on his stall.
They _______ (3. be) mackerel, silver pomfret, black pomfret, anchovies,
grouper, snapper, sardine, red fish and so on.
He ____________ (4. sell) fish to
a customer now. He ____________(5. sell)
out at least 20kg of mackerel, silver pomfret, black pomfret and groupers.
Rahim always ________ (6. help) his father at his stall on Sundays and
holidays. His father always _________ (7.
pay) him RM30 a day. He ________ (8. earn)
RM90 so far this month. He always
________ (9. try) to save as much as he can and _______ (10. use) the money
wisely to buy the story books he likes.
He ___________ (11. save) RM1000 already. He _______ (12. want) to save enough to buy himself a laptop.
He _________ (13. be) a good helper. He _______ (14. smile) a lot. He ____________ (15. smile) now to the
customers now and __________ (16. tell) them how fresh the fish are. He always ________ (17. say) smiling
_________ (18. not cost) a cent but it always ________ (19. bring) good luck to
a person. He ________ (20. think) it is the easiest and best way to greet
people.
Besides helping his father sell fish, he also _________
(21. enjoy) going out to the sea catching fish.
One of his uncles ________ (22. be) a fisherman. He ________
(23.
own) a big fishing vessel. He __________
(24. employ) 3 workers to help him. His
uncle also _______ (25. pay) him for
helping in his vessel. He ________ (26.
tell) his uncle that he can join him during the coming one-week holidays in September.
Exercise 4
Fill in the blanks with the
Present Tenses.
Heng Tong is a thirteen-year-old boy and likes cars very much. He _______ (1. have) many toy cars on display
on the shelf in his bedroom. Recently,
his father __________(2. buy) him an
electronic car. He _________ (3. like)
to play with it with his friends in the park in the evening.
Heng Tong’s father is a professional mechanic. He _______ (4. own) a workshop repairing
cars. Heng Tong likes to go to his
father’s workshop very much. He ________
(5. be) in his father workshop now. He
is interested in repairing cars. He
____________ (6. look) at Hassan, a mechanic repairing a car now. He ___________ (7. help) him, too. He ___________ (8. learn) the names of
different parts of the car. He
__________ (9. know) it is important to know the names of each part of the car
in order to learn how to repair the car one day.
His ambition _________ (10. be) to
become a mechanical engineer. He
___________ (11. study) hard and smart every day in order to fulfill his
ambition. He ___________ (12. want) to
achieve more than his father as he enjoys more resources at his disposal. His parents ___________(13. promise) to buy
him a car on his 17th birthday if he scores good results in the
public examination. He ____________ (14.
study)
very hard since. (2)
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