Cambrian College

First Digital Campus in Bangladesh

Md. Abdur Razzak Sarker Associate Professor

Department of English

Cambrian College Dhaka.

Objectives

By the end of the lesson you will be able :• to identify the Present Simple Tense• to know the Present Progressive Tense• to know the structure of sentences

Tense denotes the time of the action indicated by a verb. The time is not always the same as that indicated by the name of the tense.

THE PRESENT PROGRESSIVEMagda is feeding her horse right now. I can’t talk now. I am playing the guitar.They are eating dinner right now.

THE PRESENT PROGRESSIVE

PRESENT an activity in progress PROGRESSIVE (is happening right now)

Magda is feeding her horse right now. I can’t talk now. I am playing the guitar.They are eating dinner right now.

PRESENT PROGRESSIVE am, is, are + -ingFORM:

(i) NEGATIVE: It isn’t snowing right now.

(j) QUESTION: Is it snowing right now?

THE PRESENT PROGRESSIVE

n

sta

rt

no

w

finis

h?

THE PRESENT PROGRESSIVE

xx x

ip

r o g r e s s

It swims. It is swimming.

SIMPLE PRESENT

STATEMENT

PRESENT PROGRESSIVE

They are running.They run.

people inrunning clothes –but not running.

SIMPLE PRESENT

QUESTION

PRESENT PROGRESSIVE

Are you running?Do you run?

You’reShe’s

youshe + is

CONTRACTIONS

+I am = I’m running.

+ are = running.

Pronoun + be

= running.

don’tdo

CONTRACTIONS

+does not = doesn’t

+ not =

She doesn’t run. They don’t run.

CONTRACTIONS

+ is not = isn’t

aren’tare

+ not =

He isn’t running.

I am not running.

They aren’t running.

(am

+ not = aren’t)

daily / usual habit

happening right now

It’s Monday, and my mom is teaching math.

or

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daily / usual habit

happening right now

She doesn’t usually teach on Monday.

or

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Answer the following question. (a) What do you mean by present simple tense?

True or false. If false, give the correct answer.(a) The use of present continuous tense is very rare.-true/false.

Tell whether the sentences are present simple or present continuous tense.

The above sentence is in

present progressive

tense.

Now try to fill in the blanks with verbs from correct tenses.

Write 10 sentences each from both tenses and try to make it a paragraph.

All the best.

thAnk you.

Thank you.