Present Simple vs Present Continuous Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form of
the present continuous or the present simple.
Hi Marvin,
MARRIN
MIRIM
I 'm writing (write) this letter from Portugal. I ..
(be) on holiday here
with my family and we
(have) a great time.
I
Right now, I.
(lie) on the beach. My little brother
..(play)
on the sand with his toys and my mother
(watch) him.
| My dad
(swim) in the sea.
I just love it here. We
(get up) late every day and... (spend)
most of our time sunbathing. This afternoon we
(go) into town
I to do a little sightseeing. Then my parents
(take) us to a
nice restaurant. They..
(want) us to try the local cuisine.
I hope it tastes good!
| Well, that's all for now. See you when I get back!
MM
WANINI
Take care,
I Wendy​

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.