Present Simple Present Continuous

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PRESENT SIMPLE

OR

PRESENT CONTINUOUS?

Today

• Learning Goal:
• How to use the Present Simple and the Present Continuous correctly
  
• How to know when to use which tense
  

Present Simple

Use when you talk about a fact / habit.                             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

1. Use when you are doing it RIGHT NOW.      (aan het ....)                  We are listening.

Am/is/are + verb + ing

2. The Present Continuous is also used to express irritation:       You're always chatting! Stop it!

Signal words: right now, at the moment, currently, now etc.

(To walk)

I am walking now.                                                   / Am I walking?          /  I am not walking.

He is walking at this moment.                         / Is he walking?        / He is not walking.

We are walking to the shop right now.        / Are we walking?   / We are not walking.

            Present simple

• Use when talking about a fact/habit.

• I walk / he walks
  

• Use infinitive / SHIT-rule (she/he/it verb+s)

• - (negative) =  I don't walk.                                                          He/She/It doesn't walk.

•  ? (question) = Do I walk?
                                  Does He/She/It walk?

      Present continuous

• Use when you are doing it RIGHT NOW.
  
• Or by : irritation.

• I am walking
  

• Use am/is/are + verb + ing

• - (negative) = I'm not working.                  

You aren't working very hard
 He/She is not working very hard.

• ? (question) = Am I driving too fast?
  

                                    Are you driving too fast?

                                    Is He/She driving too fast?

She plays the piano every evening.

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

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

Write the answers in your notebook.

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ANSWERS

1.  Drink 

2. Is chopping 
3. Taste 
4. Delivers
5. Are you frying
6. Is she shouting
7. Serves
8. Are texting