Grammar: Present Simple & Continuous

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Remember! 
Simple Present for habits, routines and things that are always true!
Present Continuous for things happening now!

Look for KEY WORDS in the sentences!

Key words for the Simple Present: 

• always, sometimes, usually, often, rarely/seldom, never
• on Monday etc, at the weekend, in the afternoon etc, on Tuesday evening etc, in the summer etc

Key words for the Present Continuous:

• now, right now, at the moment
• today, these days, this month etc

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Cosmetic surgery

Cosmetic surgery: What do you think? 
Listen and watch the video and try to answer the questions.

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1. Cindy Jackson's $100,000 worth of cosmetic operations is a ......................................
2. She's had 14 full scale ...................................... and a total of 52 ......................................
3. When the reporter asks her why she has done all this, her answer is .......................................
4. When she was 14 years old a guy told her that when she smiled  ...................................... 
5. Who invented the ideal symmetry? 
6. At two different points in the interview the reporter proposes two arguments against getting a cosmetic surgery. One has to do with nature the other one with the possibility of something to go wrong. What exactly does he say? 
7. How old is Cindy now? 
8. What does Cindy do for a living today?