PRESENT SIMPLE PRESENT CONTINUOS

AFF: TO BE + ING FORM

 Live / lives  Do / does
 Wash / washes  Go / goes
AFF:  I am living (love, see)
 Teach / teaches  Have / has
 He is washing  They’re suimming (stop,
 Study / studies  She is teaching cut, shop)
 They are studying

NEG: I don’t live / He doesn’t live NEG: I am not washing my clothes / He’s not watching TV

FORM
Yes, he does Yes, she is
INT: Does he live in INT: Is she washing her
Boston? No, he doesn’t clothes? No, she isn´t

Wh- questions: Wh- questions:

o Where do you live?
o How do you get to school?
o What do firemen do?
o What time do you go to bed?
o When do you play hockey?
 habits, daily routines, repeated
actions everyday, every week, every
Monday, frequency adverbs
 things that are always true or
USE permanent The sun rises everyday
Mums love their children
 describing a (permanent) state He
works in an office
o Where are you going?
o How are you doing?
o What are you studying?
o When are you coming?
 only for actions: action verbs only
 things that are happening now at this precise moment
They are playing football in the garden
 temporary situations that are happening around now
I’m reading a book by García Márquez
 a planned future arrangement
I’m visiting my parents this weekend