The Present

Continuous Tense

Do you remember

the verb to be be ?

I amam

You areare We areare

They areare

He isis

She isis

It isis

Let’s see some examples :

He He is Homero.Homero.It It is a a

squirrelsquirrel

They They are happy. happy.

We can also use verb to be in negative sentences :

It It is not a cat. a cat.

They They aren’t friends.friends.

We can make questions, too.

Are they cousins? they cousins?

Is he happy?he happy?

Verb to be has two meanings : ‘ser’ and ‘estar’.

Let’s see :

He He is a dwarf. a dwarf.

(Él es es un duende)

He He isn’t sad. sad.

(Él no está está triste)

We We are aliens.aliens.

We We are on on Earth now.Earth now.

(Somos Somos

extraterrestres.

Estamos Estamos en la tierra ahora )

We can use the verb to be to describe actions, like this :

He is playing He is playing

basketball.basketball.

He is smoking.He is smoking.

They are dancing.They are dancing.

Is he eating ? No, he isn’t. He is thinking.

Are they studying ? Are they studying ? No, they aren’t. They No, they aren’t. They are playing.are playing.

We use AM - IS - AREAM - IS - ARE and other verbother verb with ING ING to make the present continuous tense.

I I am speak speaking..

You You are pay paying attention. attention.

He He is listen listening to music. to music.

We We are look looking at the screen. at the screen.

They They are writ writing..

And ...And ...

She isn’t isn’t talkinging.

They aren’t aren’t playinging cards.

AreAre you readinging this ?

Is Is he sittinging near to you?

We aren’t aren’t restinging.

Remember :Remember :

AM IS ARE

+ ING VERB

Don’t forget

it !!

In these sentences, actions are

happening NOWNOW

They are walking nowIt is flying in this moment

They are reading now

We are watching TV

I am playing very well

To make the ING-form of verbs, you simply add “ing” at the end :

Work - workinging

Read - readinging

Watch - watchinging

Talk - talkinging

Play - playinging

Go - goinging

Think - thinkinging

Stand - standinging

Eat - eatinging

Drink - drinkinging

Listen - listeninging

Draw - drawinging

Study - studyinging

Look - lookinging

But ...

There are some

exceptions.

Verbs ended in “E”“E” are the main exception. Let’s see some examples.

(Come e - cominging.)

Batman is cominging.

(Writee - writinging)

He is writinging

(Smokee - smokinging)

They are smokinging

(Dancee - dancinging)

Travolta is dancinging

(Makee - makinging)

That thin man is makinging coffee.

It’s easy.It’s easy.

The rule is : The rule is : don’t write the final “E” to make the ING form to make the ING form of the verb. of the verb.

But there is But there is something else ...something else ...

Some verbs have Some verbs have a special a special spelling. spelling.

Run Run - runnnning

SitSit - sitttting

Swim Swim - swimmmming

Lie ie - lyingying

Die ie - dyingying

Tie ie - tyingying

In summary, In summary, there are three there are three rules to make rules to make the ING form the ING form of verbs.of verbs.

1

Verbs ended in “E”:

SMOKE E - SMOKINGING

2

Special verbs

Run - Sit - Swim

runnnning

sitttting

swimmmming

3

Verbs ended in “IEIE”

LIEIE - DIEIE - TIEIE

lyingying

dyingying

tyingying

The basic rule is :

AM - IS - ARE

+

ING verb

And don’t forget we And don’t forget we use present use present continuous to talk continuous to talk about things that are about things that are happening now.happening now.

Congratulations !Congratulations !

Now you know a lot of new things Now you know a lot of new things in English . in English .