Present Continuous
Instruction: Order the words to make sentences.
1. Elizabeth / English. / is / teaching
2. an / The / students / are / completing / exercise
3. children / house. / the / There / in / are / playing
4. in / The / is / / music / class. / playing / teacher
5. raining. / is / It
6. am / studying / / I / English.
7. I / TV. / am / watching
8. are / Skype. / using / We
9. / We / are / Zoom. / using
10. walking / street. / in / There / the / are / people
Answers
1. Elizabeth is teaching English.
2. The students are working on an exercise.
3. There are children playing in the house.
4. The teacher is playing music in class.
5. It is raining.
6. I am studying English.
7. I am watching TV.
8. We are using Skype.
9. We are using Zoom.
10. There are people walking in the street.
Instruction: Underline the verbs.
1. Elizabeth is teaching English.
2. The students are working on an exercise.
3. There are children playing in the house.
4. The teacher is playing music in class.
5. It is raining.
6. I am studying English.
7. I am watching TV.
8. We are using Skype.
9. We are using Zoom.
10. There are people walking in the street.
Instruction: Underline the verbs.
1. Elizabeth is teaching English.
2. The students are working on an exercise.
3. There are children playing in the house.
4. The teacher is playing music in class.
5. It is raining.
6. I am studying English.
7. I am watching TV.
8. We are using Skype.
9. We are using Zoom.
10. There are people walking in the street.
Present
Past Future
Monday morning
Present Continuous
We use it to talk about actions that are
happening now or around now.
Instruction: Work in pairs and complete the rules.
1. We use the present continuous to talk about habits and routines / actions
that are happening in this moment or around now.
2. To form the present continuous we add -___ to the verb.
3. What is the grammar structure for affirmative sentences?
4. What is the grammar structure for negative sentences?
5. What is the grammar structure for questions?
Examples:
I am receiving online classes. I am not watching a movie.
Are you listening to music?
Instruction: Work in pairs and complete the rules.
1. We use the present continuous to talk about actions that are happening in
this moment or around now.
2. To form the present continuous we add -ing to the verb.
3. What is the grammar structure for affirmative sentences?
Subject + verb be + verb + ing + complement.
4. What is the grammar structure for negative sentences?
Subject + verb be + not + verb + ing + complement.
5. What is the grammar structure for questions?
Verb be + subject + verb + ing + complement.
Examples:
I am receiving online classes. I am not watching a movie.
Are you listening to music?
Instructions: Write true or false. Correct the false sentences.
1. Elizabeth is teaching English.
2. The students are working on an exercise.
3. There are children playing in the house.
4. The teacher is playing music in class.
5. It is raining.
6. I am studying English.
7. I am watching TV.
8. We are using Skype.
9. We are using Zoom. False. We aren’t using Zoom.
10. There are people walking in the street.
Instructions: Write true or false. Correct the false sentences.
1. Elizabeth is teaching English. True
2. The students are working on an exercise. True
3. There are children playing in the house. T/F
4. The teacher is playing music in class. False. The teacher isn’t playing music
in class.
5. It is raining. False. It’s not raining.
6. I am studying English. True
7. I am watching TV. False. I’m not watching TV.
8. We are using Skype.True
9. We are using Zoom. False. We aren’t using Zoom.
10. There are people walking in the street. True
Instruction: Write down questions to ask your partner using the present
continuous.
Example: What is your mother doing? Are you listening to music? Etc…
Time: 5 minutes
Instruction: Work in pairs. Take turns asking and answering your
questions.
Example: What is your mother doing? My mother is making breakfast.
Are you listening to music? No, I’m not. I’m receiving English classes.
Time: 5 minutes
Instruction: Work in pairs. Take turns and talk about what is happening
around you. Use your camera (videocall).
Time: 10 minutes
Instructions: Work in pairs. Look at the picture and answer the questions. Write
the correct letter.
Who is: Who has:
a) very thin? i) blond hair?
b) slim? j) dark hair? 2, 3, 4
c) a little overweight? 1, 4 k) straight hair
d) in his/her thirties? l) curly hair?
e) wearing makeup? m) a beard?
f) wearing black? n) a moustache?
g) bald? o) glasses?
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1
3
Instructions: Work in pairs. Look at the picture and answer the questions. Write
the correct letter.
Who is: Who has:
a) very thin? 3 i) blond hair? 5
b) slim? 2, 5 j) dark hair? 2, 3, 4
c) a little overweight? 1, 4 k) straight hair 2, 4, 5
d) in his/her thirties? 2, 3 l) curly hair? 3
e) wearing makeup? 3, 5 m) a beard? 1, 4
f) wearing black? 3, 5 n) a moustache? 1,4
g) bald? 1 o) glasses? 4
Work in pairs and take turns.
Student A: Choose one of the people and
describe him or her.
Student B: Ask questions and guess the
person.
Time: 7 minutes
Instruction: Work in pairs. Describe your family members.
Example: My mother has long, dark hair. She is short and is medium build. She
doesn’t wear make-up. My brother...
Time: 10 minutes
Instruction: Match the names of
the clothes with the letters A-N.
Instruction: Match the names of
the clothes with the letters A-N.
Instructions: Work in pairs. Talk about the clothing you usually/never
wear for different situations. Talk about what you are wearing now.
Take notes!
Time: 10 minutes
