Present Simple Present Continuous

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 1

Welcome to English class

Friday 17th December 2021

A quiet start of every lesson

Reading! 

In your mreader book or another. 

Have you read four or five books already?

or: 

Start studying vocabulary Unit 4 in Classroom

(write words in your notebook, wrts or quizlet)

What's 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 :-).

Open your book on page 49

Read the story First Day on page 49 by yourself.

• Does the story have a happy end?
• Write down the words you don't know.
• Do exercise 3: which sentences are missing where ?

(Attention: there is one extra sentence)

• Who wants to read the text out loud? 
• Do exercise 4: sentences are right/wrong/doesn't say.

Open your book on page 49 (2)

Look at the word friends of exercise 5. What do they mean?

• best friend
• get to know somebody
• make friends with somebody
• meet somebody for the first time

Use these word friends for exercise 6.

Finish early? Do assignment 4.3!

Homework assignments

4.2: Grammar, Present Continuous

how did it go?

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.

(To walk)

I walk to school everyday.             

He/she/it walks to school every week.

(To  work)                                     

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

Let's practise

Open Wider World, page 50, pen ready and write in notebook.

Exercise 3: choose the correct option.

Exercise 4: Complete questions 1-6 with is, are, do or does.

Exercise 5: In pairs, ask and answer the questions in ex. 4.

Finish early? Do exercises of 4.3 and 4.4  in My English Lab. 

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 :-).

Homework & next week

Finish assignments 4.3 and 4.4.

Wednesday 22th December = final English lesson of 2021!

So... game and movie time...

Which film shall we watch next week?