Arranged or Timetabled? Present Continuous or Present Simple: Multiple Choice

Use the present continuous for plans you've arranged with people, and the present simple for official timetables. Read the whole situation, then choose the correct form. Your first choice counts.

1. A: Do you want to go swimming after school? B: I can't. I _____ Kate at the café at 4.15. We agreed this morning.

2. Hurry up! The next coach to London _____ at 10.15, and it's already ten o'clock.

3. A: What time _____ tonight? B: At eight, so let's have dinner at six.

4. A: _____ the children to the zoo at 9.45 on Sunday? B: Yes, my sister and her kids are coming too. We're meeting at the gate.

5. Mum invited my cousin Lisa last week, so she _____ us for lunch at 12.30 on Saturday.

6. The autumn term _____ on 4th September. The school sent us the dates in June.

7. A: Is Ben free tomorrow evening? B: No, he _____ the match at Tom's house at 7.30. Tom has invited a few friends round.

8. We can have a late breakfast tomorrow. The museum _____ until ten. I looked at its website last night.

9. My sister's train _____ at 4.20 on Saturday. I checked the times online, so we'll meet her at the station.

10. The series _____ tonight with a two-hour special. It began in January, so don't miss the ending!

11. Max _____ to Ana's party on Friday. He told me yesterday – he has to work late that night.

12. A: _____ the car tomorrow? I need it for work. B: Yes, sorry. She's arranged to take Gran to the hospital at 10.45.

13. The gym's yoga class _____ at 7.30 tomorrow morning. I don't want to be late!

14. I _____ at my friend Sara's flat in Edinburgh next week. She's meeting me at the station on Monday evening.

15. Kim _____ her new boyfriend to the family lunch at two on Sunday, so we need an extra chair.

16. My brother _____ us this weekend after all. He's got a bad cold, so he phoned to cancel.

17. Our flight _____ in Rome at 6.15 tomorrow evening, local time. I printed our boarding passes this morning.

18. A: Excuse me, when _____ for the airport? B: At 11.40, from stop C.

19. A: What _____ for dinner tonight? Your friends will be here at seven! B: Fish and rice. I bought everything this morning.

20. The boats to the island _____ from Pier 2 tomorrow. There's one at nine and one at eleven, so let's catch the first one.