Present simple/ continuous describing jobs

Choose one of the actions below and tell your partner if you are doing it now, how often and where you do it usually etc. until they guess which verb you are talking about:

Feel tired
Feel nervous
Feel confused
Feel stressed
Have fun
Learn something new
Do something relevant to my training
Move around
Speak to people
Sit around a table
Sit on a swivel chair
Use English
Speak a foreign language
Think about work
Breathe
Leave my mobile phone on
Have my mobile phone on vibrate
Carry a diary
Carry business cards
Carry more than 50 pounds in cash
Carry a dictionary
Have an automatic pencil in my pocket
Think creatively
Wear a tie
Wear jewelry
Have many unread emails
Delay something I have to do
Run late

Use the phrases below to talk about your company and its employees more generally, using time phrases like “at the moment”, “usually”, “nowadays”, “this year”, “every summer”, “recently”, “in the past”  etc.

Feel positive
Feel enthusiastic
Work overtime
Rise/ fall
Reach a peak/ flatten out
Cut prices
Go upmarket/ downmarket
Grow/ expand
Feel unhappy with management
Open new branches/ offices/ showrooms etc.
Pay rise
Bonus
Invest
Develop/ launch new products
Focus on
Work with
Recruit
Advertise

Use similar sentences to give a mini-presentation about your company, divided into 3 parts:
1. What we do
2. Some details about our history
3. What is happening now

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Present simple/ continuous and tense review verb guessing game Elementary version

Choose one of the actions below and tell your partner if you are doing it now, how often and where you do it usually etc. until they guess which verb you are talking about:

Feel tired
Feel nervous
Feel confused
Feel stressed
Have fun
Learn something new
Move around
Speak to people
Sit
Use English
Speak a foreign language
Think about work
Breathe
Carry a diary
Carry business cards
Carry more than 50 pounds in cash
Carry a dictionary
Have an automatic pencil in my pocket
Wear a tie
Wear jewelry

Use the phrases below to talk about your company and its employees more generally, using time phrases like “at the moment”, “usually”, “nowadays”, “this year”, “every summer”, “recently”, “in the past”  etc.

Feel positive
Feel enthusiastic
Work overtime
Rise/ fall
Cut prices
Grow/ expand
Feel unhappy with management
Open new branches/ offices/ showrooms etc.
Pay rise
Bonus
Invest
Develop/ launch new products
Focus on
Work with
Recruit
Advertise

Use similar sentences to give a mini-presentation about your company, divided into 3 parts:
1. .What we do
2.  Some details about our history
3.  What is happening now

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PDF for easy saving and printing: presentsimplecontinuousverbguess

Related pages

Business present tenses page

Present Simple and Continuous page

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