UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL

“JOSÉ FAUSTINO SÁNCHEZ CARRIÓN”

INGLÉS I

THE PRESENT CONTINUOS

M (o) Oscar Antonio Sierra Ramirez

C.P.P. 215734686
The Present Continuous Tense

• I am giving classes right now

• My mother is working now.
• The students are paying
attention at this moment.
THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE
AFFIRMATIVE: Play

I am
‘m
You are
We ‘re playing
They
He is
She ‘s
It
 THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE
INTERROGATIVE: Play NEGATIVE: Play
am not
Am I I ‘m not
you You are not
Are we We aren’t
they playing? They playing
he He is not
Is she She isn’t
it It
 THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE

Is he playing football at the moment?

No, he isn’t. He is running.
WHAT IS SHE DOING?

draw

She is drawing a picture at

the moment
WHAT IS TWEETY
DOING?

IT’S FLYING
 WHAT IS DAVID DOING?

At the moment he’s playing football

VERB + ing (spelling rules)
 Make –ing forms of each verb given.

• begin • get
• rub • use
• listen • admit
• lie • try
• swim • decide
• study • come
• happen • put
 EXERCISES
Admit Do Hit Play Sit
Answer Dream  Jump Put Stand
Break Enjoy Jog  Rain  Start
Bring Eat Lie  Refer Take 
Buy Enter  Live Rob  Talk
Build Feel Lend  Run  Turn
Clean Forget      Make  Shop Visit 
Come Get Meet Shout Vote 
Cut Go Match Sing  Wash
Cry  Hand Open Swim Write
Die  Heat 
 EXERCISES

• Admitting • Doing • Sitting

• Hitting • Playing
• Answering • Dreaming  • • Standing
Jumping• Putting
• Breaking • Enjoying • • Starting
Jogging • Raining
• Bringing • Eating • • Taking
Lying • Referring
• Buying • Entering  • • Talking
Living • Robbing
• Building • Feeling • • Turning
Lending • Running
• Cleaning • Forgetting • • Visiting
Making • Shopping
• Coming • Getting • • Voting
Meeting • Shouting
• Cutting • Going • Washing
• Matching• Singing
• Crying • Handing • • Writing
Opening • Swimming
• Dying • Heating
ACTIONS THAT ARE HAPPENING
AT PRESENT (1)

They are dancing right now.

TEMPORARY SITUATIONS (2)
They normally play tennis.

But this week they are skating.

 CHANGING SITUATIONS (3)
Yesterday it was very sunny.

Today it’s raining more and more.

FUTURE ARRANGEMENTS (4)

They are celebrating a party next weekend.

 THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE

TIME EXPRESSIONS:
Now, at the moment, today, nowdays, this week.

They are throwing snowballs now