Grammar The Present Continuous Tense
Positive and negative
-
I
am
playing
in the yard.
am
not
He
She
It
is
is
not
We
You
They
are
are
not
Subject question
-
Who
is
playing
in the yard?
Special questions
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Where
is
he
playing?
There are some groups of verbs that are never used in the Present Continuous. The Present Simple is used with these verbs, because they mean states or conditions, i.e. facts – not activities.
| Verbs of thinking and opinion think* understand see suppose mean imagine believe know recognize realize remember forget agree doubt expect deserve | Verbs of emotions and feeling like prefer dislike want hate wish love care hope |
| Verbs of senses see* hear smell taste* feel | Verbs of having and being have* possess contain include belong to seem sound owe own weigh cost deserve depend on need be resemble |
* verbs can be used in the Present Continuous with the difference in meaning
Note spelling of verb + -ing
| help – helping | come –coming | play – playing | get – getting |
| go - going | write - writing | stay – staying | plan - planning |
| build – building | have - having | try - trying | dig - digging |
| show - showing |
| *lie - lying | swim - swimming |
- English revision course
- Grammar Article (general issues) The Noun (Sg./Pl.; 's;) The Order of Words The Pronouns (Personal, Possessives, Reflexive, Demonstrative) to be to have/have got
- Nouns in Plural
- The Pronouns (Займенники)
- Demonstrative Pronouns (Вказівні займенники)
- 4 Put the words in the correct order.
- Function how to start a conversation
- How to say goodbye Read the following phrases and say when we use them.
- Social expressions
- 1 We use certain social expressions in different social situations.
- 3 Listen and practise saying them. How to take an interview
- 1 Here is an interview with Emma. Complete the interviewer's part using the verb "to be".
- Follow up
- 3 Speak in pairs what family type you live in.
- 4 Go through the text again and underlinelike this:
- 5 Find the following words quite, a little, rather, very, extremely. How do they change the meaning of the adjectives which follow them?
- 6 Find in the text the words and word combinations with the opposite meaning:
- Grammar The Present Simple Tense
- Adverbs of frequency with the Present Simple Tense
- 1 Open the brackets
- 2 Say as in the Models
- Reading and speaking
- 1 Read the text, and try to remember it.
- 2 Think of a similar description of a famous person but don't say who it is. Get ready to tell your groupmates your story.Let them guess who it is.
- 3 Compare your answers with your partner. Now listen again and check. For fun
- What language learning type are you?
- The worker The worker is someone who:
- The player The player Is someone who:
- The thinker The thinker is someone who:
- The feeler The feeler is someone who:
- Grammar The Present Continuous Tense
- 1 Open the brackets
- 2 Fill in (c) with the information about yourself.
- Listening and speaking
- 2 Notice these common expressions on the telephone.
- Follow up
- Lesson 9 then and now everyday english
- Grammar The Past Simple Tense
- 1 Underline the right form of the verb.
- 2 Use one of the verbs to fill each gap. Put the verbs in the Past Simple. Fall find spend lose need hurt laugh take leave save celebrate can't
- Reading
- 1 Gloria Spitz, who is English, describes how she met her American husband, Hank, in the 1940s. Complete the text using the words in the box.
- I couldn't look at him gave us chocolates came back for me
- Follow up
- Reading and speaking
- 1 Write the correct verb in the chart. Add more words to each column. Make sentences of your own with word-combinations.
- 2 Read the article about chronobiology*. Do you agree with experts?
- Function
- 3 Are you a couch potato? is about leisure activities. Read it and choose the best definition for a coach potato.
- Are you a couch potato?
- Grammar The Present Perfect Tense
- 1 Underline the right form of the verb.
- 2 Make positive and negative sentences about the following people.
- 3 Ask the following people questions about their experiences.
- 4 Circle the right variant
- Lesson 14
- Reading and speaking
- 1 Read the text and find some usual and unusual things people can collect. Fill in the mind map. Hobby. Collecting Things
- 2 Answer the following questions:
- Follow up
- The Future Simple Tense
- 1 Underline the right verb form.
- 2 Make positive or negative sentences about the following people's plans.
- 3 Complete the sentences with willorbe going to.
- Reading and speaking we are going to receive guests
- 1 Read two passages about the traditions of receiving guests in different countries. Fill in the chart.
- 2 You are going to receive guests next weekend. Use information from Column "Me" to describe Ukrainian traditions.
- II Lesson 3 Jigsaw reading Text a
- III Lesson 4 function
- IV Lesson 7 Vocabulary and Listening 1 (tapescript)
- V Lesson 7 Listening 2 (tapescript)
- VI Lesson 8 Listening and speaking (tapescript)
- VII Lesson 14 Jigsaw reading
- VIII Lesson 10 Listening and Grammar (tapescript)
- IX Lesson 10 function Being Polite Listening (tapescript)
- X Lesson 3 Jigsaw reading Text b
- XI Lesson 14 Jigsaw reading
- Essential Vocabulary
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Conjunctions
- Prepositions
- Irregular Verbs