During this lesson, you will learn how to make negative, affirmative and interrogative sentences with present progressive
For instance:
| Affirmative | You are creating a website |
| Negative | You are not creating a website |
| Closed Question | Are you creating a website? |
| Open Question | Why are you creating a website? |
Let’s get started
Table of Contents
Present Progressive Guide
These are the different uses of the present progressive or present continuous
Present Progressive Use #1
We use the present continuous to talk about events which are in progress at the moment of speaking:
- I am riding my bike
- I am taking an online class
- We are discussing the project
- She is reading a book now
Present Progressive Use #2
We use the present continuous to talk about temporary states which are true around the moment of speaking:
- I am living with my mother
- I am studying English
- She is working for Walmart
Present Progressive Use #3
We use the present continuous to describe actions which are repeated or regular, but which we believe to be temporary:
- I am not eating much these days
- She is working in Costa Rica at the moment
- I am working from home during the pandemic
Present Progressive Use #4
We use the present continuous to refer to the future when we talk about plans and arrangements that have already been made:
- I am moving to Italy in July
- They are building a new house next month
- I am leaving tomorrow morning
- We are buying a new car tomorrow
This is the structure of affirmative sentences
| Subject | Verb to be | Verb + Ing |
| I | am | cooking |
| She | is | reading |
| He | is | driving |
| We | are | exercising |
| You | are | working out |
Pre-Task #1: Present Progressive Examples (20 mins)
Task#1A
Watch the short clips and determine what type of sentence is
Instructions:
- Watch the video
- Understand each sentence
- Determine if it is (1) Affirmative sentence (2) Negative sentence (3) closed question and (4) open question
- Does any of the questions or sentences refers to future actions?
Pre-Task #2: Present Progressive Sentences and Questions (40 mins)
Task#1B
Read the sentences aloud to your professor
| #1 | She is securing the website |
| #2 | She is optimizing the database |
| #3 | He is creating the primary menu |
| #4 | She is not creating the mega menu |
| #5 | She is not building the footer |
| #6 | She is not designing the author box |
| #7 | Are they creating custom fields? |
| #8 | Are they styling the header? |
| #9 | Are they optimizing images? |
| #10 | Why are you lazy loading the videos? |
| #11 | What security plugins are you testing? |
| #12 | What images are you compressing? |
Pre-Task #3: Present Progressive Questions (35 Mins)
Task#1C
Individually open the link and create questions with the present continuous in Wordwall.
Task#1D
Make Pairs, then one of you asks what every member of the team is working on and one of you answers the question
Example of a question and an answer
| A: | Is Hanzell configuring the sitemaps? |
| B: | No, he isn’t. He is customizing the dashboard |
These are the tasks that every member of the team is working on
| Names | Actually Working on |
| Ariana | Create the primary menu |
| Arturo | Create the secondary menu |
| Madeline | Optimize the database |
| Hanzell | Customize the dashboard |
| Alejandra | Build a mega menu |
| Pamela | Create an interactive menu |
| Walter | Inline CSS |
| Jairo | Style the header |
| Erick | Optimize category pages |
| Wesley | Implement a caching policy |
| Isaac | Clean up the database |
| Felipe | Trash spam comments |
Break (25 min)
Task#1D
Run wild and free for 25 mins
Main Task (1 Hour)
Task#1E
Use the present continuous in your conversation
Instructions
- Make pairs
- Choose two phrases from the YouTube Video
- Prepare a short dialogue about an IT related matter
- Include the two sentences
- Present the dialogue
| A | 25 Minutes for dialogue creation |
| B | 15 minutes for practicing |
| C | 20 minutes for the presentation |
Post-Task: Writing
Task#1F
Write sentences based on the instructions given by your professor
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Additional Resources
This is a great YouTube video if you want to learn more about the present progressive
