Understanding Present Continuous Tense: Activities and Actions
This lesson focuses on the present continuous tense, used to describe actions that are currently happening or ongoing. Students will learn how to form affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences using "be" + verb-ing. The content includes examples such as "What are you doing?" with answers like "I’m drinking water," and various activities like riding a bike, playing basketball, and more. It emphasizes the structure and usage of this tense, along with engaging exercises to reinforce understanding.
Understanding Present Continuous Tense: Activities and Actions
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Unit 5 Grammar (Ⅰ)
: Whatareyou doing? :I’m thinking /drinkingwater(now).
Whatare you doing? I’m… ridinga bike ridinga horse
playing basketball swimming running
What are you doing driving drinking jumping
writing fishing dancing What is he/she doing?
On the playground It’s four thirty now. It’s time for games.Some of the students in Class Three are playing on the playground. Look! What are they doing? TomJim Lucy Ann
现在进行时 1. 意义：表示现在（说话瞬间）或现 阶段正在进行或发生的动作. The bird is singing in the tree. My mother is making cakes. The students are reading English in the classroom.
2. 结构： be (am/is/are)+ v-ing be由主语的人称或单复数来决定 I’m making a plane. She is swimming in the river. They are playing football.
3.现在进行时的用法和构成 1.表示正在发生的动作。 Whatareyou doingnow? 2.肯定句： + do be ing 3.否定句：be + + doing not 4.疑问句:be + + doing…? 主语
Sandy: Hello, Amy. ___ you _______ (study) at the moment? Amy: No, I’m not. My cousin ________ (visit) me. Sandy: Oh, really? What __ he ____ (do) now? Amy: Well, he ________ (play) a new computer game. studying are is visiting doing is isplaying
Sandy: ____ you _______ (play) the game with him now? Amy: No, I’m not. I __________ (wait) for my turn. Are playing amwaiting
Exercise 1. —What’s she doing? —She (sing). 2. They are _______(run) now. 3. We are ___________ (look after) the baby these days. is singing running looking after
4. They (talk) with Mr. Zhang now. 5. The old man _________(listen) to her now. 6. Are you (mend) something? are talking is listening mending
7. —What is he doing? —He (put)on his clothes. 8. Don’t talk.Jim _______(do) his homework. 9. Listen! He (play) the violin. is putting is doing is playing
