Complete the sentences. use the present simple or present continuous form of the verbs. i’m christy bell, and i’m in year 11 at a school in manchester. this is my big gcse exam year, so i 1 don’t have (not have) as much free time as i did before. when i 2 (not do) my homework or studying for tests, i try to see my friends. saturday night is really the only time when everyone’s free, because most of my friends 3 (work) on saturdays. i have a job in a home and garden centre, but now it 4 (get) harder to fi nd enough time to do that and all of my school work too. i 5 (need) the money, though, because i don’t get any pocket money from my mum. i 6 (do) some babysitting, which is good because i usually 7 (get) my school work done at the same time, and i get paid for it! most of the boys in my class seem to spend a lot of their free time on computers. more and more of them 8 (get) computer games, or doing online gaming, but i don’t like them much. and these days people 9 (use) instant messaging to talk to friends, but i 10 (prefer) texting my friends on my mobile – i hate sitting in front of a computer for hours. i do enough of that with my
When I am not doing my homework or studying for tests, I try to see my friends. Saturday night is really the only time when everyone’s free, because most of my friends works on Saturdays. I have a job in a home and garden centre, but now it is getting harder to find enough time to do that and all of my school work too. I need the money, though, because I don’t get any pocket money from my mum. I do some babysitting, which is good because I usually get my school work done at the same time, and I get paid for it! Most of the boys in my class seem to spend a lot of their free time on computers. More and more of them is getting computer games, or doing online gaming, but I don’t like them much. And these days people use instant messaging to talk to friends, but I prefer texting my friends on my mobile – I hate sitting in front of a computer for hours. I do enough of that with my homework!!