This information is about the Present Continuous.
USE
Use
the Present Continuous with Normal Verbs to
express the idea that something is happening now, at this very momento or
actions in progress now.
FORM
Affirmative form:
[S + (am/is/are) + Ving + C]
You are watching TV.
Negative form:
[S
+ (am/is/are) + NOT + Ving
+ C]You are not watching TV.
Interrogative form:
[(WH-) + (am/is/are) + S + Ving +C]
What are you watching? Are you watching TV? (yes/no
question)
Examples:
· You are learning English now.
· She is not swimming now.
· Are you sleeping?
· I am sitting.
· I am not standing.
· Is he sitting or standing?
· They are reading their books.
· They are not watching television.
· What are you doing?
· Where is Samuel working?
Spelling rules:
Form
he Present continuous by adding –ing directly
to the infinitive of the verb:
Read
à Reading
Do à Doing
Talk
à Talking
Play
à Playing
Wath à
Watching
Exceptions:
Verbs
that ends in e,
omit the vowel and add –ing.
Have à
Having
Practice à
Practicing
Make à
Making
Come à
Coming
Write à
Writing
Verbs of one syllable that end in a vowel + a
consonant, double the final consonant and add –ing.
Put
à
Putting
Cut
à
Cutting
Sit
à
Sitt ing
Swim
àSwimming
Don’t
use the verbs like, hate, know, uderstand in present continuous.
Incorrect: I am liking this ice cream
Correct: I like this ice cream
ACTIVITY:
Read the text.
It’s a rainy
Saturday. It’s raining a lot and Mary and her family are spending the
afternoon at home. Her uncles are visiting them. Mary and her father are in the
living room. Mary is making a draw and her father, Mr.Harris, is surfing on the
net. They are also talking.
Mary’s older
brother, Peter, is in his bedroom playing computer games. He is a computer
fanatic and he spends much time playing on the computer. His little brother,
Jim is also in the living room. He is playing with his dinosaurs’ collection.
Sometimes he teases Mary, he is a really naughty boy.
Mary’s mother,
Mrs. Harris, is in the kitchen preparing a snack for all of them. She is
making some tea and talking to Mary’s uncles, Lucy and Tom. They are from the
nearest town and stopped by to say hello.
Fluffy, the
family cat, is sleeping on the kitchen’s sofa. We can’t see him in the picture,
but he is a true fluffy cat.
