English Club: Present Continuous II

Intermediate English

March 2, 2016

Last Week’s Vocabulary List

• Time: час

• Year: рік

• People: люди

• Person: людина

• Way: спосіб

• Thing: річ

• World: світ

• Part: частина

• Place: місце

• Week: тиждень

• System: система

• Question: питання

• Answer: відповідь

• Life: життя

• Kind: вид

• Power: потужність

This Week’s Verbs List

• To choose: вибирати

• To discuss: обговорити

• To take: брати

• To give: давати

• To find: знайти

• To ask: питати

• To swim: плавати

• To dance: танцювати

• To run: бігти

• To jump: стрибати

• To fall: падати

• To pay: платити

• To open: відкривати

• To close: закривати

Present Simple Tense vs.

Present Continuous Tense

Present Simple Tense• Facts or habits

• Permanent situations

• Things that do not change

• General statements

Present Continuous• When something is happening at the

moment we are speaking = right now

• Temporary situations

• To describe activities that are already planned

Habits – звичкиPermanent – постійний

To happen – відбуватисяTemporary – тимчасовий

Activities – дії

Already – вже

Positive statements in Present Continuous

Subject + am / is / are + [verb + -ing]

I am She is watching a film with Ben.

You are We are + cooking dinner tonight for my parents.

He is They are seeing the doctor tomorrow.

yelling at me!

Negative statements in Present Continuous

Subject + am / is / are + NOT + [verb + -ing]

I am She is helping her with homework.

You are We are + NOT + listening to you right now.

He is They are studying English enough.

doing it right.

Questions in Present Continuous

Is / are / am + Subject + [verb + -ing]

Am I Is she talking to me?

Are you Are we + watching the movie tomorrow?

Is he Are they planning the trip to Spain?

writing everything correctly?

Signal Words for Present Continuous

• Now: зараз

• Right now: зараз же

• At the moment: в даний момент

• In the morning: вранці

• In the afternoon: вдень

• In the evening: ввечері

• Tomorrow: завтра

• Next week: наступного тижня

• Next year: наступного року

• Next Monday: наступного понеділка

Signal – сигнальний

Exercise I.

I go to the supermarket with my uncle and aunt to buy bread, milk, cheese, and eggs.

My daughter lives in Rome and my son lives in France. I try to visit them in the summer.

I ask the teacher a question about the homework.

Mark takes a lot of time to get ready in the morning.

Exercise II.

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-games/present-simple-and-present-continuous

Exercise III.

Choose a card.Act out the situation.