LET'S PRACTISE THE PRESENT SIMPLE AND THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE!

1. First play and say the chant What are you doing? Here you can practise the Present Continuous tense

2. Watch and sing the song Daily Activities. Doing it, you can practise the routines with the Present Simple tense.

3. This funny song in the following link will show you the use of Present Simple Tense. 

Don't miss it!

4. Complete these activies and send them to your teacher.

1. Present Simple or Present Continuous?

2. Use the correct tense in the following text

Present Simple vs Present Continuous

Watch the video about the use of the present simple tense and the present continuous tense, and then play the game to practice the structures:

GAME

Present Continuous

USE

This tense is used to describe:

• actions happening at the present momento or in progress for a limited period around the present.
• future arrangements, events that are arranged for the future.

FORM

BE + INFINITIVE + ING

The form of the verb 'be' varies according to the subject of the sentence:

I am eating

You are eating

He is eating

She is eating

It is eating

We are eating

You are eating

They are eating

Let's play a game.

Order the words to make sentences as fast as you can!

Present Simple and Present Continuous game

Now you can practice doing these activities:
ACTIVITY ONE: CHOOSE THE CORRECT FORM
ACTIVITY TWO: DRAG AND DROP







Present Simple

Use

We use the present tense to talk about:

• something that is true in the present:

I’m nineteen years old.
He lives in London.
I’m a student.

• something that happens again and again in the present (routines)

I play football every weekend.

We use words like sometimes, often. always, and never (adverbs of frequency) with the present tense:

I sometimes go to the cinema.
She never plays football.

• something that is always true:

The adult human body contains 206 bones.
 Light travels at almost 300,000 kilometres per second.

• something that is fixed in the future.

The school term starts next week.
The train leaves at 1945 this evening.
We fly to Paris next week.

STRUCTURE

You can practice this structure in this links:

ACTIVITY ONE: MULTIPLE CHOICE

ACTIVITY TWO: DRAG AND DROP