Quiz playing is a wonderful way to increase your knowledge of English as a Second Language. Remember that all of our ESL quizzes have titles that are both friendly and technical at the same time… In the case of this quiz you might like to tell your friends about “As I Was Saying” but no doubt your teachers will talk about the “Simple & Continuous Tenses quiz”! If you hear a technical term and you want to find a quiz about the subject then just look through the list of quiz titles until you find what you need.
How confident are you at knowing when to use (and how to form) Simple, or Continuous, forms of English verbs?
'As I was saying... ' (at some earlier point in time, e.g. before being interrupted), we should make sure you are happy with this in your everyday use of the language. Here are some questions on simple and continuous tenses to help you check.
In this case, 'You do ... don't you?' is a classic emphatic tag-question to 'jog someone's memory'.
We use 'are coming' to refer to the fairly near future, in the sense that your aunt and uncle themselves are aware of the visit too, are actively bearing it in mind, and may even have begun packing and preparing already (so the whole 'cycle' of the visit-event is underway; hence the Present Continuous).