PRESENT CONTINUOUS

Affirmative and Negative

Today we are going to learn about the Present Continuous tense. We use it to talk about things that are happening at the

time of speaking. Let's see!

working.

working.

working.

working.

We / You / They

He / She / It

You

I

Affirmative

working’re

’m working

Complete the table with the present continuous affirmative form of work.

Grammar Present continuous: affirmative

’s

working

’re

working

speaking.

speaking.

speaking.

speaking.

We / You / They

He / She / It

You

I

Negative

speakingaren’t

Complete the table with the present continuous negative form of speak.

Grammar Present continuous: negative

’m not speaking

isn’t speaking

aren’t speaking

Present simple Present continuous

Use Habits or routines Actions in progress

Time expressions

Adverbs of frequency (always, never, often...)Every + ...on + day of the week

nowat the moment today

Examples

My mum usually cooksI watch TV every dayYou play tennis on Mondays

Dad is cooking todayAt the moment I'm readingNow you're playing football

Affirmative

My dad usually cooks dinner. (cook)

My mum’s cooking dinner now. (cook)

She always plays basketball. (play)

She’s playing basketball now. (play)’s playing

cooks

plays

’s cooking

Complete the table with the affirmative form of the verbs in brackets.

Grammar Present continuous and present simple: affirmative

Negative

We don’t watch TV every day. (watch)

We aren’t watching TV at the moment. (watch)

I don’t cycle to school on Mondays. (cycle)

I’m not cycling to school today. (cycle)’m not cycling

don’t watch

aren’t watching

don’t cycle

Complete the table with the negative form of the verbs in brackets.

Grammar Present continuous and present simple: negative