contrast present continuous

7/29/2019 Contrast Present Continuous

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CURSO: INGLES

PROFESORA: Maritza Palomares Rosales.

INTEGRANTES: - Pierina Benites Suárez

- Sandra Ordoñez Bernabé

CARRERA: Administración y NegociosInternacionales

HUACHO – PERU

2013



PRESENT SIMPLE The present simple is used to indicateactions that are habitual or actions

occurring but not necessarily at the timespoken.

For example:

- I go shopping with my friends- He reads to the children

- She stops in front of the school



PRESENT CONTINUOUSThe present continuous tense is indicating an actionthat is happening at the time of speaking. It is quitesimilar to, for example, 'eating', 'walking', 'saying',etc.. In colloquial English also means something that will happen very soon.

Example:

- I am studying for my exam- Robert is driving to the supermarket- The mechanic is fixing our car



DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PRESENT SIMPLE

AND PRESENT CONTINUOUS The present simple is used The present continuous is used

• When we say something we do regularly.

example: I play football.

• For incomplete actions taking place at the time of speaking. In these cases usually accompanied by expressions now, at the moment, right now

Example: They are working right now.

•to indicate an undetermined time action: I speakEnglish. I don't smoke.

• For incomplete actions that are happening, but notnecessarily at the time of speaking.

Example: I am reading a very good novel.•To express general truths or facts.

Example: Water boils at 100 degrees.

• Preparations or plans to in the near future. In this caseusually accompanied by expressions of future time.

example: I am going to the cinema tonight.•For future plans, especially to refer to schedules orprograms. In prayer we must put temporal expressionindicating some future time.

Example: The train leaves in an hour

• For actions that are repeated regularly and tend tokeep a sense of grievance, of monotony.

example: She is always complaining.

To tell jokes, stories, tales, sports events.

Example: Two people walk into a restaurant. One of them says to the waiter.... ).

• When you change the routine or break a habit.

Example: We usually have dinner at home, but tonight we are eating out.



STATIC VERBS

VERBS MEANING

Feel, Hear, See, Smell, Taste

EMOTIVE VERBS:

Believe, dislike, doubt, imagine, hate, know, like, Love, prefer, realize, recognize,remember, suppose, think, understand, want, wis

VERBS OF STATE OR ABSTRACT VERBS:

be, Cost, seem, Need, Care, Contain, exist

VERBS OF POSSESSION:

Belong, Have, possess, own

VERBS OF COMMUNICATION:

Agree, Astonish, deny, Disagree, impress, Mean, please, Promise, Satisfy, surprise



EXPRESSIONS OF TIME Yesterday - today

–tomorrow- yesterday morning - this afternoon - tomorrow evening

- Notice the expressions referring to the night (night):

last night - tonight - tomorrow night

- To refer to the days of the week, months, seasons, years and centuries used the wordslast, this y next :

last week - this month - next year

last Monday - this April - next century

last winter - this summer - next spring

- Proposition is used on for days of the week and for other word for 'time':

on Monday, on Saturday morning, on weekdays, on time

- And the preposition in for different parts of days, months, years and seasons:

in the morning, in March, in 2000, in (the) autumn

- And these expressions using at:

at night, at the weekend, at six o'clock, at Christmas

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