Present Simple or Continuous

Present Simple or Continuous

What are they doing?

Present Continuous - Listening Game

This is a good exercise to improve your listening and practise the present continuous tense.

.

A couple is watching TV. Listen to six audio segments. There will be a question about the pictures. Choose the correct picture.

.

Click HERE

.

.

Game by ELLLO. A free online listening resource of over 1,000 listening activities designed especially for ESL and EFL students and teachers. Most listening activities include images, an interactive quiz, transcript of the audio and downloadable MP3.

Present Continuous - Negative

Jobs - Present Simple - Present Continuous

Click HERE

Present Continuous - Questions and Negatives

Present Simple or Continuous

Present Simple or Continuous

THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS

Form:
It is formed with the verb to be (am / is / are) + the present participle (infinitive + ing)

AFFIRMATIVE

I am working.
He/she/it is working.
You/we/they are working.

NEGATIVE

I am not working.
He/she/it isn’t working.
You/we/they aren’t working.

INTERROGATIVE
Am I working?
Is he/she/it working?
Are you/we/they working?

SHORT ANSWERS

Yes, I am.
No, I’m not.
Yes, he/she/it is.
No, he/she/it isn’t.
Yes, you/we/they are.
No, you/we/they aren’t.

Uses:

• For actions happening now. 

Adverbs: Now, at this moment

She is dancing now.
A: What are you doing? B: I’m watching TV.

• For arrangements in the near future. 

Adverbs: tonight, tomorrow, next Friday;

I am flying to Italy tomorrow.
She is meeting Sam tonight.



Spelling:
1) Verbs of one syllable with a vowel between two consonants, double the last consonant.

Run ------- running
Swim ----- swimming

2) Verbs ending in l after a single vowel, double the l and add ing
Signal ---- signalling
Travel ---- travelling

3) Verbs ending in e, drop the e and add ing
Argue ---- arguing
Write ----- writing
(but : see ----- seeing / agree ----- agreeing)


FREE EXERCISES
TRY THE FOLLOWING LINKS:
http://www.agendaweb.org/verb/present_continuous.html
http://perso.wanadoo.es/autoenglish/gr.prescon2.i.htm
http://www.roadtogrammar.com/welcome/

What are they doing?

The Future

Future

Asking Questions in Four Different Tenses

Click HERE

Learn / revise how to ask questions in four different tenses (present simple, present continuous, past simple, and present perfect) with this interactive book !

More interactive books HERE