WHAT ARE THEY DOING - PRESENT CONTINUOUS

What are they doing?

Students (4th level) are learning the structure of “Present Continuous”. They have learnt the structure of these sentences: SUBJECT + VERB TO BE + VERB + ING + COMPLEMENTS.

They have done the worksheet on the right. The answers, if you want to practise, are:

1. He is eating chocolate.
2. He is playing computer games.
3. He is cooking a roast chicken.
4. He is playing football.
5. She is playing the guitar.
6. She is driving a car.
7. She is doing exercise.
8. She is singing.
9. He is walking
10. He is eating a carrot.
11. She is feeding the cat.
12. She is reading a book.

 I hope it can help you in order to learn the structure of this kind of sentences. Regards, Christopher.

HELPING STUDENTS WITH PAST SIMPLE - REGULAR VERBS

My students at 5^th level have begun this week the grammar related to past simple of regular verbs. What do we use the past simple for?

• We use simple past to talk about actions or situations that happened in a defined time in the past.
• To talk about regular actions/situations in the past.
• We use it along certain adverbs or adverbial phrases in relation to past time.

Forms:

Affirmative: 

 Subject+ verb + - ed + objects.

Negative:

Subject+ aux. verb to do in the past (did) +not+ main verb (infinitive) + objects

Interrogative:

Aux. verb to do in the past (did) + subject+ main verb (infinitive) + objects

Useful adverbs for past simple:

YESTERDAY, THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY, LAST DAY, LAST WEEK, LAST SATURDAY, FEW DAYS AGO, TWO DAYS AGO, AT 9 O’CLOCK…

Here are two presentations in order to help you. Click on this page (http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-exercise-3.html) for further practice on the simple past in English.

Good luck. Your teacher and friend, Mr. Alonso

Regards

Past simple - Regular verbs

Past simple (Regular Verbs)