Group Members: Danna Carranza, Laura Nope, Katerine Patiño.

Date: April 07th, 2014

Grade: Cycle 4 (9th Grade)
Topic: Simple present and present continuous: Hobbies
Abilities: Grammar, speaking and listening review
Objective:
 Recognize the structure of present simple and present continuous
 Teach how they can use present simple and present continuous and in specific
situations.

FREE TIME
Warming up
1. Observe the following image and make sentence with each character.

Example: Katherine and Sebastian play in the land

Isabel
Coco
Juan
María

Pablo
Andrés

Daniel
David

Jonathan

Lina Sebastián

Katherine

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 2. DEVELOPMENT
Look at the table about the simple present tense.

PRESENT SIMPLE

AFF:
 Teach / teaches  Do / does
 Study / studies  Go / goes
 Read/ reads  Have / has
 Play/ plays
 Run/ runs
 Listen/ listens
 Talk/ talks
 Walk/walks

FOR
M NEG: I don’t study / He doesn’t study

Yes, he does
INT: Does Daniel read?
No, he doesn’t

Wh- questions:
o Where do they stay?
o How do Sebastian and Katherine play?
o What does Jonathan do?
o Where does Daniel play?
o When does Andres do?
 habits, daily routines, repeated actions every day, every
week, every Monday, frequency adverbs
 things that are always true or permanent The sun rises
USE everyday Mums love their children
 describing a (permanent) state He works in an office

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 3. Read the following text and underline the sentences in present simple
tense.

Susan’s daily routine

Susan is thirteen years old and she

attends a very big school near London.
Her favorite subjects are Science and
Physical Education.

She is very good at sports. She plays

volleyball at her school. Susan has a bus
life. She always gets up at a half past
seven. She has a shower, gets dressed
and at eight o’clock she goes to school
by car with her mother. Her classes start
at half past eight.

Her mother is a teacher at Susan’s

school.

On Mondays Susan has lunch at school with her friends. On Tuesdays and Thursdays
she practices volleyball at the school’s gym. Wednesday is Susan’s favourite day of the
week because she has dance classes and sometimes she has dinner with her father.
Susan’s parents are divorced. She lives with her mother and at the weekends she
always goes to her father’s house.

On Saturdays Susan goes for a walk* with her dog Nikita. After having lunch with her
father, Susan goes to the cinema with some friends. At 4:40 pm Susan goes home and
listens to music in her bedroom. She loves music. At 9:45 she goes to bed. She never
goes to bed late.

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 4. Put in the correct verb forms

1) Juan in 5) Coco
the park with Andres in the park
a) Play a) Run
b) Plays b) Running
c) Played c) Runs
d) Playes d) Doesn’t runs
2) Andres 6) David
in the park tricycle
a) Reads a) Drive
b) Don’t reads b) Driven
c) Doesn’t reads c) Drives
d) Doesn’t read d) Driving
3) Jonathan 7) Pablo
with Lina by his phone
a) Studied a) Talked
b) Study b) Talking
c) Don’t study c) Talk
d) Studies d) Talks
4) Maria 8) Sebastian and Katherine
a mother in the sand
a) Be a) Plays
b) Are b) Played
c) Am c) Playes
d) Is d) Play

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 5. DEVELOPMENT
Look at the table about present continuous tense.

PRESENT CONTINUOS

TO BE + ING FORM

AFF:  He is running
 He is walking  They’re playing
 She is teaching
 They are reading

NEG: He is not running with his cat / He’s not playing in the
land.

Yes, she is
INT: Is she reading a
book? No, she isn´t

Wh- questions:
o Where are they going?
o How is she doing?
o What are they studying?
o

USES

 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

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 I’m reading a book by García Márquez
 a planned future arrangement
I’m visiting my parents this weekend

6. Read the following text and underline the sentences in

present continuous tense.

I´m sitting
on the
beach,
eating an ice
cream, Alice
and Paul are
swimming in
the sea and
Tom is in the park. He´s playing with a friend. Peter is
listening to the radio and reading. We´re having a
fantastic holiday. Abercwm is a little fishing village in
north Wales with a park, a castle, some Roman remains
and some lovely gardens, and there’s a little fishing port
with a lighthouse. Everybody here is really friendly. I think
we´re lucky. This is our second holiday this year and we
´re doing just what we want to do: sleeping, eating and
playing games. The food is lovely too.

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 7. Put in the correct verb forms

1. Juan
playin eith cars in the 4. Coco
park running with Andres in
a) Isn’t the park
b) Aren’t a) Doesn’t
c) is b) Aren’t
d) Am c) is
Andres d) Am
reading in the park 5. David
e) Isn’t driving tricycle
f) Aren’t a) is
g) Doesn’t b) am
h) Do c) aren’t
2. Jonathan d) do
studying with Lina 6. Pablo
a) are talking by his phone
b) is a) are
c) don’t b) aren’t
d) am not c) is
3. Maria d) isn’t
walking with her baby a 7. Sebastian and Katherine
mother playing in the sand
a) Isn’t a) is
b) Don’t b) are
c) is c) am
d) Am d) am not

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 8. Choose the verb form in the box and match with picture, write
a sentence in PRESENT CONTINOUS tense.

write sleep Talk drink swim eat run listen read play sing cook ride danc

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 9. Complete the sentences with the Present Continuous or
Simple present tense:

Example: I don’t listen (not/listen) to the radio very often.

1. How often ____________ (you/read) sport magazines?

2. Turn off the TV! You ______________ (not/watch) it.

3. It`s very late. I __________ (go) home now. ____________

(you/came) with me?

4. She ____________ (phone) her grandmother. She

___________(phone) her every day.

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 5. My mother usually __________ (drive) to work, but today she

________(go) by bus.

6. That photographer ___________ (take) very good photos. Look!

He _______

_______(take) a photo now.

7. It always _____________ (rain) at the weekend, but today the

sun __________ (shine).

9.1. Identify the two different present tenses. Beneath each

highlighted verb, write simple present or present continuous
tense, according to which form and tense it is. 

Example: At home we are speaking in Russian because it is easy

and my mother can understand. Present Continuous
Simple Present

 But now I have to write in English and I am

making mistakes. 

 Here at the college I feel like I am being born again. 

 One sculpture is of a girl who is sitting and reading a

book. 

10. Listen and complete the song with the words in the box

Get- trace - care - streams – wasted - love – for – care - anything –

dancing - anything get - trace - for
Woodkid “I love you”

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 Where the light/bright shivers offshore
through the tides of oceans
we are lying/shining in the rising sun
as we are floating in the blue/glue
I am softly watching you
Oh boy your eyes betray what hurts/burns inside you

whatever I feel you for

you only seem to about you
Is there you could see me too?
Because I love you
Is there anything I could do
just to some attention from you?
In the waves I've lost every of you
Where are you?

After all I drifted ashore

Through the of oceans
Whispers in the sand
As we were in the blue
I was synchronized with you
But now the sound of is out of tune

Whatever I feel for you

You only seem to about you
Is there any you could see me too?
Cause I love you
Is there anything I could do
just to some attention from you?
In the waves I've lost every of you
Where are you? (Repeat)

Homework
Read the following sentences, find the mistakes in five of the sentences
and correct them.

1. I’m like drinking coffee.

2. He’s not understand what I’m saying.

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 3. What do you think about?
4. She doesn’t believe what you’re saying.
5. The food is tasting fantastic. You’re a good cook.
6. I see what you mean.
7. I need to see the doctor.
8. He isn’t agreeing with me.

9. He’s looking a lot better than he did a few days ago.

10. They’re knowing him well.

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