Unit

(a) The Present Continuous Tense is used to express an action going on at the time of
speaking.
Examples 1 atn singing.
She is singing.
(b) The Past Continuous Tense is used to express an action that was going on.
1 singing.
They singing.
(c) The Future Continuous Tense is used to expressthat will be going on or continuing
at some time in future.
Exapnplc.s 1 "ill be going to a movie tomorrow.
He shall be visiting Kolkata next week.
How to form Continuous Tenses
(a) (i) Present ContinuousTense is formed
am + presentparticiple
Helping Verbs or Auxiliary Verbs is + presentparticiple
participle
are + present

(ii) Present Continuous Tense is formed by adding —ing

to the verb.
verb + ing + present participle
hear + ing --4 hearing
look + ing --5 looking
read + ing -9 reading
1 am reading.
You are playing.
She is dancing.
They are writing.
(b) Past Continuous Tense
like this .
You form Past ContinuousTense
was + presentparticiple
Auxiliary or Helping Verb were + present participle

1 was playing,
They were reading.
She was dancing.
(c) Future Continuous Tense Tense like this
You form Future Continuous
Shall + be + presentparticiple
Will + be + presentparticiple
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 Evapnp/cs• 1 shall be participating in the show
He airing for you at the gate.
The new supermarket ill soon.
Continuous 'Venxcsi!) Nega(iyc Sentences and Interrogatnl' Sentences.
Present Tense : (i) Youare not vending this book now.
(ii) Why arc you not reading this book now?
Past :
(i) You cre "ot ing the game yesterday.
(ii) Why you 'isfcning to the music?
Future Tense : (i) You ill not "c needing your laptop tomorrow.
you he .sfa.'ingwith your brother in London?

Fill in the blanks with the Pmsent Continuousform of the verbs given in the
brackets
1. ne teacher the wildlife in Kenya. (describe)
The weather day by day now. (improve)
They their friends in a club today. (meet)
4. The movie at 4.40. (begin)
the sweet dish for the party? (make)
6. Manohar everything about fishing to his brother. (teach)
My English every day. (improve)
S. to a movie with their families on the coming Saturday.
(go)
9. 1 of selling my car. (think)
10. This at the right time. (leave)

Fill in the blanks with Past Continuous

Tenses of the Verbsgiven in brackets :—
Mother (clean) the kitchen and father
(read) a
newspaper.My sister and I
(tidy) our room while my two years
brothers old twin
(fight) in a corner. The maid
drawing room. Only Hari, my older (sweep) the
brother
(do) anything. Why
he (Sit) quietly? I do not know. The rest of us
all (d ) something.
Why he always (brood) over something? He
not like 1k)to anyone for hours.

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 Exercise-3Fill in the blanks with the correct form of Verbs (given
Tense . in brackets) in the Future
Continuous
1. 1 not on the school trip on Wednesday.(go)
Sachin Tendulkar
not in the IPL match on 20th
April. (open)
3. you a chemist shop on your way home? (pass)
4. They the new gym from next month. (join)
Don't worry we accommodationfor you in the hotel. (arrange)
6. Mohan for his office at 9 a.m. (leave)
He breakfast at 10 a.m. in the office. (have)
S. When on the stage? (perform)
9. 1 till late in the night tomorrow.(work)
10. on me at six in the evening.(call)

Find the opposites of the Verbsgiven in the box below in the cross patch given.
Thenchoose3 opposites and write a sentence of your own in Present, Past and Future
Tensesfor each of them
Continuous
1. laugh 2. sit 3. walk 4. go 5. leave

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