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Lesson 7

This document provides a lesson on present tenses in English, including examples of the present continuous and simple tenses. It discusses verbs that can and cannot be used in the continuous form. The homework is to practice activities on present tenses, identifying the correct present tense of underlined verbs and putting verbs in sentences into the proper present continuous or simple form. Key aspects of the present continuous and some non-continuous verbs are defined.

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Lesson 7

This document provides a lesson on present tenses in English, including examples of the present continuous and simple tenses. It discusses verbs that can and cannot be used in the continuous form. The homework is to practice activities on present tenses, identifying the correct present tense of underlined verbs and putting verbs in sentences into the proper present continuous or simple form. Key aspects of the present continuous and some non-continuous verbs are defined.

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LESSON 7

Teacher’s name: Patricia Faúndez


Homework

Practice File 2
p. 105
Activity 1
Today’s job

Present continuous and phone calls


p. 15 (PDF p.13)
Present tenses
Present tenses
Present tenses

Are the underlined verbs right or wrong? Correct the verbs that
are wrong (present simple or continuous).

1. Water boils at 100 degrees celsius.


2. The water boils. Can you turn it off?
3. Look! That man tries to open the door of your car.
4. Can you hear those people? What do they talk about?
5. The moon goes round the earth.
6. I must go now. It gets late.
7. I usually go to work by car.
8. ‘Hurry up! It’s time to leave.’ ‘OK, I come’
Present tenses

Put the verb in the correct form, present continuous or simple.

1. Let’s go out. It _____ (not/rain) now.


2. Julia is very good at languages. She _____ (speak) 3
languages very well.
3. Hurry up! Everybody _____ (wait) for you.
4. ‘_____ (you/listen) to the radio?’ ‘No, you can turn it off.’
5. ‘_____ (you/listen) to the radio everyday?’ ‘No, just
ocassionally.’
6. The River Nile _____ (flow) into the Mediterranean.
7. Look at the river. It _____ (flow) very fast today – much faster
than usual.
Present tenses

8. ‘How is your English?’ ‘Not bad. It _____ (improve) slowly.’


9. Ron is in London at the moment. He _____ (stay) at the Park
Hotel. He _____ (always/stay) there when he’s in London.
10. Can we stop walking soon? I _____ (start) to feel tired.
11. ‘Can you drive?’ ‘I _____ (learn). My father _____ (teach) me.’
12. ‘What _____ (your father/do)?’ ‘He’s an architect but he _____
(not/work) at the moment.’
Present continuous

There are some verbs that we do not normally use with continuous
(or progressive) tenses. And there are other verbs that have one
meaning with simple tenses and a different meaning with continuous
tenses.

N o n - c o n t i n u o u s Ve r b s

Non-continuous verbs are verbs that we do not normally use with


continuous tenses. These "stative" verbs are about state, not action,
and they cannot express the continuous or progressive aspect. Here
are some of the most common non-continuous verbs:

• feeling: hate, like, love, prefer, want, wish.


• senses: appear, feel, hear, see, seem, smell, sound, taste.
Present continuous

• communication: agree, deny, disagree, mean, promise, satisfy,


surprise.
• thinking: believe, imagine, know, mean, realize, recognize,
remember, understand.
• other states: be, belong, concern, depend, involve, matter, need,
owe, own, possess.
References

https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-continuous-meaning.htm
See you next
time!

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