explicacion del presente progresivo con diapositivas
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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 .