PRESENT CONTINUOUS

EVERYDAY ACTIVITIES AND FUTURE EVENTS

AFFIRMATIVE FORM

STRUCTURE• SUBJECT + PRESENT VERB TO BE + VERB – ING

+ COMPLEMENTSEXAMPLES

SHE IS WRITING A LETTERTHEY ARE EATING PIZZA

I AM LOOKING AT THE WINDOW

NEGATIVE FORM

STRUCTURE• SUBJECT + PRESENT VERB TOBE (NEGATIVE) +

VERB – ING + COMPLEMENTEXAMPLES

THEY AREN’T (ARE NOT) STUDYINGHE ISN’T (IS NOT) COMING

I`M NOT (AM NOT) READING THE PAPER

INTERROGATIVE FORM

STRUCTURE• PRESENT VERB TO BE + SUBJECT + VERB-ING +

COMPLEMENT?EXAMPLES

ARE YOU EATING A PIZZA?IS THE DOG PLAYING WITH THE BALL?ARE THEY TRAVELLING TO ENGLAND?

USE• Actions that are happening at the same time

you are speaking ( acciones que ocurren en el momento de hablar).

EXAMPLESHE’S READING A BOOK NOW

THEY’RE COMING TO MY HOUSE AT THIS MOMENTPay attention to the purple words, they are

adverbs of time for the Present Continuous ( las palabras purpura son advervios de tiempo para el continuo)

USE

• Sometimes we use the present continuous for Plans in the future time.

EXAMPLESI’m travelling to London next week.

John and Marta are going to the cinema tonight.Pay attention to the purple words, all of them

are future adverbs that are always connected to the present continuous for future plans.

SPELLING RULES WHEN ADDING -ING

• General rule: we add –ing to the infinitive verbExamples: go/going , read/reading,meet/meeting• Verbs ending in consonant + e, omit final eExamples: live/ living, write/ writing, …• Monosyllabic verbs ending CVC (consonant+

vowel+ consonant) double the last consonant. Examples: stop/stopping, put/putting, swim/swimming

• Verbs with two or more syllables ending CVC

• Verbs with two or more syllables ending CVC double the last consonant. Examples: refer/ referring, occur/ocurring,…

• Verbs ending in –ie, change this end for –y adding –ing. Examples: die/dying

• Verbs ending in –y , do not change the –y. Examples: try/trying, play/playing

NON-CONTINUOUS VERBS

• The following verbs are not normally used in continuous tenses:

like love hate want need prefer know realise

suppose mean understand believe remember belong

contain consist depend seem