Present continuous

PRESENT CONTINUOUS

EXERCISES

• affirmative sentences (Englisch Hilfen)
• affirmative sentences2 (Englisch HIlfen)
• negatives (Englisch Hilfen)
• questions (Englisch Hilfen)
• affirmatives-negatives-questions (Englisch Hilfen)

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PRESENT SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS

Eso 3-present simple and present continuous (1) from Ana Arias Castro

EXERCISES

• exercise 1

Present tenses in English: basic contrast

Infographic by Mestre Miguel 

Present continuous tense

Daily routines

"Be" in the present: am / is / are

EXERCISES:

• BASIC:
• exercise 1: pronoun + am / is / are
• exercise 2: pronoun + am / is / are
• exercise 3: pronoun + am / is / are
• exercise 4: drag am / is /are
• EASY:
• exercise 5: choose the right verb
• exercise 6: choose the right verb
• exercise 7: choose the right verb
• exercise 8: choose the right verb
• MORE DIFFICULT:
• exercise 9: questions: click to put the sentences in order
• exercise 10: questions: click to put the sentences in order
• exercise 11: short answers with am / is / are
• exercise 12: short answers with am / is / are
• exercise 13: am / is / are in a text
• CONTRACTIONS:
• exercise 14: basic contractions

Halloween trivia

Halloween trivia from Ana Arias Castro

Advice for your project on English-speaking cities

SOME ADVICE:

• Choose some relevant websites in English. These websites should offer information that you can easily understand.
• Take information from your sources but rewrite it, don't just copy and paste: that is plagiarism.
• Choose interesting, relevant pictures to illustrate.
• Provide interesting information, suggest useful activities and exciting places to visit.
• Write short sentences if you are not sure about grammar. It is easier to make mistakes if your sentences are longer.
• At the end you should mention ALL the sources in the Reference section (the last slide)
• When you finish, double check to avoid mistakes.

This is the template for our etwinning project about English-cities:

City project from Ana Arias Castro

This is a Word 2010 version. If you need a Word 2003 template try this other link.

And this is an example about New York City. However, your presentation can be completely different:

New York City from Ana Arias Castro

25 years of the Berlin Wall

four zones after WW2 - picture from Wikipedia

The Berlin Wall,  Berliner Mauer in German, separated the city of Berlin in Germany from 1961 to 1989. It separated the eastern half from the western half. For manay it was a symbol of the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was about 168 km (104 miles) long.It was built to prevent people from escaping from the eastern half of Berlin.

After the WW2 ended Germany was divided into four zones, one for each of the main Allied countries: France, United Kingdom, the USA and the Soviet Union. Berlin, its capital, was also divided into 4 zones even though it was inside the Soviet zone. 

In 1949 the British, French and American zones became the Federal Republic of Germany or West Germany and the Soviet part became the German Democratic Republic. As Germans living in the Soviet part of the city tried to escape a wall was built, the Berlin Wall.

Berlin Wall - picture from Wikipedia

The German Democratic Republic was isolated from the rest of the country and it had a communist regime. In the 1980s eastern, communist countries faced collapse and the opposition of people. In October 1989 mass demonstrations against the government in East Germany began.

Eventually, the Berlin Wall was taken down on November 9, 1989.

READ MORE:

• Simple Wikipedia (easy texts for CLIL students)
• Wikipedia in English
• BBC: videos and audio files

Present simple and present continuous

PRESENT SIMPLE AND PRESENT CONTINUOUS


PRESENT SIMPLE
form

• affirmative: subject + infinitive (+3^rd p –(e)s)
• negative: subject + don’t/doesn’t + infinitive
• question: do/does + subject + infinitive

Remember that we only add the –(e)s in the 3^rd person affirmative form and that be is an exception: am / is / are

use

• facts and permanent states.
• habits and routines
• 1^st type conditional sentences
• stative verbs that are not used in the pres. cont. (see, hear, believe, want, know, understand, think, like, love...)

Key words: how often / always / sometimes / often / never / usually / every day / once a week / twice a month... / if (in conditional sentences)

examples

• Snow melts at 0ºC.
• Harry lives in Liverpool.
• My dog plays football with us.
• Daniel washes his jacket every week.
• We don’t like football.
• She doesn’t understand baseball.
• Do you enjoy dining out?
• Does Rafael Nadal train in the morning?
• If you drink too much you’ll have to go to the toilet.

PRESENT CONTINUOUS
form

subject + am / is / are + (not) + -ing

Remember the rules for -ing

use

• actions happening at the moment of speaking
• Key words: now / at the moment

examples

• My sister is watching TV now.
• They aren’t listening to me.
•  I’m not sleeping now.
• He’s setting the washing machine.

INTERESTING LINKS:
In this unit we are revising the form and uses of two very common tenses: present simple and present continuous. These links will lead you to useful materials for you:

• Summary of tenses
• Tenses in detail
• Worksheet: unit 1
• Revision test for unit 1: Unit 1
• Isabel Pérez:
• Present simple: explanations and exercises
• Present continuous: explanations and exercises
• Englisch-hilfen:
• exercise 1
• exercise 2
• exercise 3
• Execise 4
• Exercise 5
• Exercise 6
• Exercise 7
• Exercise 8
• Exercise 9
• Exercise 10

Present simple and present continuous from Cynthia Maurizzio

present simple and present continuous from jesusmarcos42

Adolfo Suárez has died

picture from Wikipedia

Adolfo Suárez, Spain's first Prime Minister following Franco's dictatorship, the man who led a successful transition to democracy, died on Sunday afternoon.

Why was he so relevant?

• He was King Juan Carlos closest collaborator during Transición (1976-1981).
• He engineered the process that led to the Referendum to pass the Constitución of 1978 and the first democratic elections.
• During his term most of the laws from the former Dictatorship were changed and made democratic.
• The Communist party became legal.
• He defended democracy during the coup d'état lead that took place on February 23, 1981, when guard Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Tejero and a group of the armed men stormed into Congress the day lawmakers were voting on the prime minister’s successor, Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo.

Read this news in English

• El Pais
• BBC
• NY Times