1 VWO-TTO group: always have to speak English in class, are probably already using the present continuous but aren't aware of the fact that it is the present continuous.
Present Continuous: Without knowing anything about the present continuous we're going to discover what it is while talking about some of the gif on the following slides:
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- in pairs look at the slides and write down what the people/things are doing in slides.
Discuss with your partner.
Once you've looked at every slide, try to make sentences of what the people in the slides are doing.
Example: what is happening in the first slide? --> the masked people are laughing --> example of a sentence
Not possible to log in? discuss the gif with the group; then have them work in pairs, they'll have to come up with a sentence of each gif.
write down one sentence per group on the board
Ask the group to focus on the verbs; what do you notice about the verbs in these sentences?
all are in the present tense
all use a form of 'to be'
all use a verb form ending in -ing
You've just described the present continuous!
What do you notice about the present continuous? What does it express?
that an action or condition is happening now, frequently, and may continue into the future