3th grade 13 January

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

Today's instruction

Goal of this lesson: I can express what is usual and what is peculiar (in these Corona-times)

 

Using two forms of the present tense:

Present Simple and Present Continuous

First part of this lesson refreshing the grammar, 

later on we ‘ll split up in breakout rooms and conversate with each other. In English of course.

Basic rules

 stay out of the chat: use the hand you can raise for urgent questions. Non-urgent matters>>> mail me.

Golden tickets may be earned

Short refresh of the form

  

1 Present Simple : base form except for third person singular (shit-s) 

I eat, she eats

2 Present Continuous present form of to be + ing-form 

We are eating

Questions and negations

Making of questions and negations:

 You’ll need an auxiliary.

Present Continuous already has one: the form of to be 

Are you eating?

Present Simple: the auxiliary do, does or don’t, doesn’t is introduced: Does she eat?

use

Enough about the form now, let’s get to the use:

 

The general idea of a continuous tense is that it puts 

emphasis on the action itself.

It’s more or less obvious in the following three cases in which to use the PC

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It’s more or less obvious in the following three cases in which to use the PC

1 Things which are happening at the moment of speaking:

• The water is boiling now, so you can put in the pasta.

Temporary situations

Temporary situations:

• Julie is living in Paris for a few months (usually she lives in London).

Situations which are slowly changing:

• I'm getting better and better at speaking English.

Temporary or new habits

• I'm drinking too much coffee these days because I'm so busy at work.

Annoying habits (usually with 'always'):

• My flatmate is always leaving the kitchen in a mess!

On the other hand you have situations to use the Present Simple

On the other hand you have situations to use the Present Simple

Things which are always true

Water boils at 100 degrees.

Permanent situations (or nearly permanent; true for a few years at least):

• Julie lives in London.

Habits or things we do regularly

I drink coffee every morning.

stative verbs

Some verbs really don’t make sense in PC because these verbs often describe states that last for some time. We call them stative verbs. Here is an example in Dutch first:

Ik vind rood een mooie kleur.

Ik ben rood een mooie kleur aan het vinden

English examples

I want this lockdown to stop

English seems easy, but it isn't actually

We agree to disagree

Here is a list of stative verbs

Now practise yourselves: share in groups of five your

what is usual, what’s not.

Make sure you use both tenses properly

Rules: you’ll be divided in groups randomly. (so no choice)

Everyone joins the conversation in English.

I may join your groups any moment.

At the end of the session you’ll return in the big meeting. One of you mails me two sentences one in PS and one in PC

Now practise yourselves: share in groups of five your

what is usual, what’s not.

*Make sure you use both tenses properly

*you’ll be divided in groups randomly. (so no choice)

*Everyone joins the conversation in English.

*I may join your groups any moment.

At the end of the session you’ll return in the big meeting. 

One of you mails me two sentences: one in PS and one in PC

Further practice and study

 

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-simple-or-present-continuous.html

link to list of stative verbs:

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-simple-or-present-continuous.html

write down your sentences