Present simple or present continuous practice +, - , ? 1. they (to like) riding a horse on sundays. 2. my mother (to get) up at 8 o'clock. 3. the children (to be) at school. 4. mary (to be) in the bathroom. 5. my friend usually (to wash) his hands in the morning. 6. we often (to go) to school by bus. 7. listen! the bird (to sing) in the tree. 8. tom (to ride) a bike at the moment. 9. i (to do) my homework now. 10. you (to play) the piano now.

1. they like riding a horse on sundays. 2. my mother gets up at 8 o'clock. 3. the childrem are at school. 4. mary is in the bathroom. 5. my friend usually washes his hands in the morning. 6. we often go to school by bus. 7. listen! the bird is singing in the tree. 8. tom is riding a bike at the moment. 9. i am doing my homework now. 10. you are playing the piano now.

Little hans had many friends, but the most devoted friend was big hugh the miller and hans always gave his friend a handful of sweet herbs or plums and cherries in the fruit season.    hans felt very proud of having a very clever friend. rich miller gave little hans nothing anything.  but he had a hundred sacks of flour, six milk cows, and a large stock of woolly sheep.       in spring, summer, and autumn hans was happy, because he had some food, but when the winter came, and he had nothing to bring to the market, he suffered from cold and hunger, and often had to go to bed without any supper. and he was lonely, as the miller never came to visit him.      his friend miller often said to his wife, that when people were in trouble they should be left alone and needed nobody. it was his idea about friendship. and only miller's youngest son told his parents one day that if poor hans was in trouble he wouldl give him half his porridge, and showed him his white rabbits.