BK3 24/25 - week 2 les 3 - Present tense (simple & continuous)

Grammar
Present simple, present continuous
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This lesson contains 15 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.

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Grammar
Present simple, present continuous

Slide 1 - Slide

What is it?
Who knows when to use it or how to write it?

Difference regular and irregular verbs?

Slide 2 - Slide

How to write something in present simple?

Whole verb without -ing
(e.g. walking --> walk)

The singular you gets an s

I walk
You walk
He/she/it walks

We walk
You walk
They walk

Slide 3 - Slide

When to use present simple
Something short happens right now
Something is a habit
Something is a general truth
Something is a permanent situation

Slide 4 - Slide

examples
Right now:                             The screen turns off
A habit:                                    I walk my dogs before my work
General truth:                      Water boils at 100 degrees (celcius)
Permanent situation:        I drive to work, I do not take the bus.

Slide 5 - Slide

How to write something in present continuous?

'to be' + -ing form
(e.g. walking)

Make sure the form of 'to be' is the correct one

I am walking
You are walking
He/she/it is walking

We are walking
You are walking
They are walking

Slide 6 - Slide

When to use present continuous?
Activities that are currently going on (longer than with the present simple) but has a clear end.

Something that keeps happening over and over

Slide 7 - Slide

Examples
Activities that are currently going on:
I am teaching you guys and you are paying attention

Things that keep happening:
It is always raining in this country

Slide 8 - Slide

I had been swimming for a while
A
present simple
B
present continuous
C
neither

Slide 9 - Quiz

I go to school throughout the week but in the weekends I am off.
A
Present simple
B
Present continuous
C
neither

Slide 10 - Quiz

While I am driving I am paying attention to the road.
A
present simple
B
present continuous
C
neither

Slide 11 - Quiz

Students need to adhere to the school rules.
A
present simple
B
present continuous
C
neither

Slide 12 - Quiz

Assignment
In the next two screens, Write down a sentence in the correct tense.

KISS

Slide 13 - Slide

Present simple

Slide 14 - Mind map

Present continuous

Slide 15 - Mind map