Session 10

Present Tense
• Present Simple
• Present Continuous
• State Verbs
 Present Simple Present Continuous
• Routine actions • For an action that is happening as we speak
(He goes to the market every weekend) (She’s talking to that man)

• Facts and permanent situations • For something that is ongoing but not necessarily
(The sun rises in the east) happening right now
(They’re studying to be doctors)

• Directions or instructions • To describe a developing situation

(Open the box and then remove the plastic) (It’s getting dark outside)

• Referring to a regular action

(He’s usually working at this time)
1. John lives and works in Florida but he has a holiday in England at the moment.

2. I wonder why the neighbour's dog barks again. Maybe there is a burglar!

3. Alan gets up at seven o'clock every morning.

4. Then he is going to have a shower before breakfast.

5. Then he drives to the beach and stays all day.

6. He is not working because he won the lottery last year.

7. Why do you learn English this year?

8. I am living with my sister for a month because she is pregnant and I can help her.

9. Tell me what you are wearing. That way, I will recognise you at the station.

10.Jane is in the kitchen and very stressed! She cooks dinner for 20 people.
If you 1. ............................... (love) surfing and 2. ............................. (want) to get a university degree, you

should go to Plymouth University in Britain. Students who 3. ............................. (surf) three or four times a week

for fun can now do a degree in surfing, and make a career of it. While surfing 4. ............................. (look) easy

when you watch from the beach, getting a degree is quite hard to achieve. Jim and Helen are in their last year of

school, and 5. ............................. (take) their A-levels this summer. They both 6. ............................. (own)

surfboards, but they 7. .............................. (not surf) much these days. They 8. ............................. (study) very

hard for their A- levels. They 9. ............................. (know) the academic requirements for acceptance to the

surfing course are high, and the course itself is also hard. It 10. ............................. (include) oceanography,

marine biology, ecology and the design of wetsuits and surfboards, as well as actual surfing. But Jim and Helen

both 11. ............................. (believe) it’s worth the effort. Let’s wish them luck.
State Verbs (Non-Continuous Verbs)

• Feeling: hate, like, love, prefer, want, wish

• Senses: appear, feel, hear, see, seem, smell, sound, taste
• Communication: agree, deny, disagree, mean, promise, satisfy, surprise
• Thinking: believe, imagine, know, mean, realize, recognize, remember, understand
• Other states: be, belong, concern, depend, involve, matter, need, owe, own, possess

I want a coffee. not I am wanting a coffee.

I don't believe you are right. not I am not believing you are right.

Does this pen belong to you? not Is this pen belonging to you?

It seems wrong. not It is seeming wrong.

I don't hear anything. not I am not hearing anything.

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