Present Simple Present Continuous

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 1

Welcome to English class

Wednesday 8 January 2025

A quiet start of every lesson

Reading! 

Read in your book 

or write about your adventures 

during the Christmas break.

What's the plan for today?

At the end of this lesson you can:

• read a book or write a story.
• use Present Simple and Present Continuous correctly.
• tell what you need and want to practice for the test.

Open your WB on page 69

We do this together to refresh your memory about Unit 10.

• Scan the page = go over it quickly, without reading it properly.

Any questions about it? Do you understand what to do????

• Do exercise 1 = underline the correct adverbs.

What are adverbs again???

• And do the other exercises as well. 

Questions? Raise your hand! 

Finished? Check if you have done all the exercises of Unit 10, 8 and 4!

Recap of Present Simple

• Use when you talk about a fact / habit/routine.                           
• Shit-rule: He/she/it + infinitive + s
• Signal words: every day/month/year, usually, always, often, never, etc.

I walk to school everyday.             

He/she/it walks to school every week.                                  

I work on Mondays.

He/she/It  always works in the office. 

Present Continuous

• Use when you are doing it RIGHT NOW.
• Am/is/are + verb + ing
• Signal words: right now, at the moment, currently, now etc.

(To walk)

I am walking now.

He is walking at this moment.

We are walking to the shop right now.

When I _______ (to cycle) to school on Mondays, I

 usually _______ (to wait) for my friend at the bridge.

Right now I am at school and I ________ (to learn) the 

present tenses. We _______ (to like not) grammar. 

cycle

am cycling

learn

am learning

wait

am waiting

don't like

are not liking

            Present simple

• Talking about a fact/habit/routine
• I walk / he walks
• Use infinitive & SHIT-rule (she/he/it verb+s)
• -  =  I don't walk.                                     He/She/It doesn't walk.
•  ?  = Do I walk?
•  Does He/She/It walk?

      Present continuous

• You are doing it RIGHT NOW.
• I am walking / he is walking
• Use am/is/are + verb + ing

• -  = I'm not working.        
• You aren't working very hard
•  He/She is not working very hard.

• ?  = Am I driving too fast?
  
• Are you driving too fast?
• Is he/she driving too fast?

She plays the piano.

1. Present Simple
2. Present Continuous

She is playing the piano.

1. Present Simple
2. Present Continuous

I eat fruit everyday.

1. Present Simple
2. Present Continuous

She is watching television right now.

1. Present Continuous
2. Present Simple

Present Simple

Present Continuous

Walk

Is working

Are reading

doing it right now

Stop

Is helping

SHIT-rule

Every day, usually,often, never

Am going

Test practice

Check this:

Have you tried it for the first test in period 1???

Test preparation: Elementary Fourth Edition | Headway Student's Site | Oxford University Press 

Test practice by yourself

Choose your own order. What do you want to do first?

1. Grammar References: Unit 4, 8, 10 = hand out
2. Test preparation: Elementary Fourth Edition | Headway Student's Site | Oxford University Press 
3. Study the wordlist for Unit 4, 8 and 10 

(Remember: You don’t have to translate during the test, but you need to know what the words mean!)

What do you want to practise/help with in the final lesson

1. Grammar
2. Vocabulary
3. Reading & presenting
4. Creative Writing - story

What was the plan for today?

At the end of this lesson you can:

• find specific detail in a short story.
• use Present Simple and Present Continuous correctly.
  
• tell when to use which present tense.
• tell what we will do in the final lesson of 2021 :-).