O Present Continuous

LESSON 4

PRESENT CONTINUOUS

The action is happening now.

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PAST ------------------------------ NOW --------------------------------FUTURE

• Please, be quiet. I’m working. (= I’m working now)
• Look at Sue! She’s wearing her new hat. (= She is wearing it now)
• The weather is nice at the moment. It’s not raining.
• Where are the children? They are playing in the park.
• You can turn off the television. I’m not watching it.

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Affirmative form:

• Chris is writing (write+ing) a letter.
• The phone is ringing (ring + ing).

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Negative form:

• She isn’t eating (eat + ing).
• You’re not (You aren’t) listening (listen+ing) to me.

Come 🡪 coming (tiro o “e” e acrescento ing depois da consoante)

Run 🡪 Running

Lie 🡪 lying (quando tenho ie, trocarei por y + ing)

Write 🡪 writing

Sit 🡪 sitting

Dance 🡪 dancing

Swim 🡪 swimming (CVC 🡪 repetir a última consoante antes do ing)

Exercises

1. What are these people doing? Use these verbs to complete the sentences:

eat – have – watch – play – wait[pic 4][pic 5]

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1. She ___________________________________________ an apple.
2. _______________________________________________ for a bus.
3. They __________________________________________ football.
4. _______________________________________________ breakfast.
5. _______________________________________________ TV.

1. Complete the sentences. Use one of these verbs:

cook – go – have – stand – swim – work

1. Please be quiet. I’m working.
2. Where’s John? He’s in the kitchen. He ________________________.
3. You __________________________________________ on my foot. ‘Oh, I’m sorry’.
4. Look! Somebody ___________________________________ in the river.
5.  ‘Where’s Ann?’ ‘She _________________________________ a shower’.
6. I ___________________________________ now. Goodbye.

1. What’s happening at the moment? Write true sentences.

1. (I / wash/ my hair) I’m not washing my hair.
2. (It / rain) It’s raining or It isn’t raining.
3. (I / sit/ on a chair) _________________________________________
4. (I/ eat) __________________________________________________
5. (I/ learn/ English) _________________________________________
6. (I/ listen/ to a music)_______________________________________
7. (the sun/ shine) __________________________________________
8. (I/ wear/ shoes)___________________________________________
9. (I/ read/ a newspaper)_____________________________________

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