区别一：现在进行时强调目前正在进行的动作，而一般现在时强调经常性或习惯性的动作。

如：
I’m reading a story now. 我在看一个故事。

(目前正在干的事情)
I read stories in my spare time. 我有空时看故事。

(经常性的行为)
区别二：现在进行时强调现阶段一直在进行的动作，而一般现在时只表动作的重复，而不表示动作的持续。

如：
What are you doing these days? 这几天你在干什么？
They are learning English in the summer holiday. 他们暑假在学英语。

They read English every day. 他们每天读英语。

They play volleyball every Sunday. 他们每周星期天都打排球。

区别三：某些表示希望或想法的动词(如hope, wonder, want等)的进行时可以表示委婉客气。

如：
I’m hoping that you will succeed. 我正在希望你成功呢。

I’m wondering whethe r you can help us now. 我不知道你现在能否给我们帮一忙。

一般现在时和现在进行时练习题
一、选择题练习
1. Who _____ over there now?
A. singing
B. are sing
C. is singing
D. sing
2. It’s eight o’clock. The students _____ an English class.
A. have
B. having
C. is having
D. are having
3. Listen! The baby _____ in the next room.
A. crying
B. cried
C. is crying
D. cries
4. Look! The twins _____ new sweaters.
A. are wearing
B. wearing
C. are wear
D. is wearing
5. Don’t talk here. Grandparents _____.
A. is sleeping
B. are sleeping
C. sleeping
D. sleep
6. Tom is a worker. He _____ in a factory. His sisters _____ in a hospital.
A. work/ work
B. works/ work
C. work/ works
7. Who _____ English best in your class?
A. speak
B. speaks
C. speaking
8. Mrs Read _____ the windows every day.
A. is cleaning
B. clean
C. cleans
9. We _____ music and often _____ to music.
A. like/ listen
B. likes/ listens
C. like/ are listening
10. She _____ up at six in the morning.
A. get
B. gets
C. getting
11. On Sunday he sometimes _____ his clothes and sometimes _____ some shopping.
A. wash/ do
B. is washing/ is doing
C. washes/ does
12. The twins usually _____ milk and bread for breakfast, but Jim _____ some coffee for it.
A. have/ have
B. have/ has
C. has/ have
13.Father usually ______ his newspaper after dinner.
A. read
B. reads
C. Reading
D. is reading
14. The Blacks often ______ to the cinema on Saturday eveni ngs.
A. go
B. goes
C. is going
D. are going
15.Look! The boy ______ with his mother in the pool.
A. is swimming
B. is swiming
C. are swimming
D. are swiming
16.--- What is Tom doing in the classroom
--He ______ something on the blackboard.
A. draws
B. draw
C. is drawing
D. are drawin
g.
17.Old Tom usually ______ up at six and ______ sports in th
e garden.
A. gets, dos
B. gets, does
C. get, does
D. gets, do
18. It's ten o'clock and Jack ______ still(仍然) ______ his homework.
A. is, do
B. is, doing
C. are, do
D. are, doing
19. The waiters ______ to work at five every morning.
A. start
B. Starts
C. Starting
D. are start ing
20.I ______ a letter, so I can't go out with you.
A. is writing
B. am writing
C. am writeing
D. am writting
二、填空：
1. My father always __________(come) back from work very late.
2. The teacher is busy. He __________ (sleep) six hours a day.
3. Listen! Joan __________(sing) in the classroom. She often
__________ (sing) there.
4. __________ your brother __________(know) Japanese?
5. Where __________ you __________ (have) lunch every day?
6. The girl __________(like) wearing a skirt. Look! She
__________(wear) a red skirt today.
三、写出下列动词的现在分词形式
1.
work_____ sing_____ play____ study___ __
2.
dance_____ have____ write____ take____ _
3.
run_____ sit____ shop____ swim___ _
4. lie_____
四、写出下列动词的第三人称单数形式
1.work_____ read____ clean____ writ e____
2.teach____ wash____ guess____ watc h____
3.go______ do______ photo_____
4.study____ fly_____ cry____ play ____
5.have____。