V1: Present Simple and Present Continuous

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 1

Present Simple and Continuous

Today's goals

- You can use the Present Simple and Present Continuous correctly.

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Present Simple vs. Continuous

You use the present simple to talk about facts, habits and routines

(time expressions: always, usually,every day/morning/summer, on Saturdays etc.)

Present Simple vs. Continuous

You use the Present Continuous:

-To talk about activities at the moment of speaking

-To talk about temporary actions

(time expressions: at the moment, now, right now, today, this month, this summer, etc.)

------Remember!------

These verbs (feelings) do not have the Present Continuous form:

believe, hate, know, like, love, mean, need, prefer, understand, want. 

Let's go out. It is......(not/rain) now.

Julia is very good at languages. She
......(speak) four languages
very well.

Hurry up! Everybody......(wait) for you.

.......(you/listen) to the radio?
No, you can turn it off.

.....(you/listen) to the radio every day?

The River Nile .... (flow) into the Mediterranean.

Look at the river. It .....(flow) very fast today - much faster

We usually ..... 1.(grow) vegetables in our garden but this year we are .... 2.(not/grow) any.

How is your English?
Not bad. It is ...(improve) slowly.

Can you drive? I am ...... (learn). My father ......(teach) me.

Sonia ......(look) for a place to live. She ......(stay) with her sister until she finds somewhere.