Ingles

STARTER “RELATIONSHIPS”
PRESENT AND PAST TENSES.
PRESENT SIMPLE / PRESENT CONTINUOUS
|Present Simple |Present Continuous|
|Routines / Habits : Maria smokes |Actions happening NOW: Maria is smoking |
|Permanent Actions: Pedro lives in Sevilla|Temporary actions: Juan is staying at the Marriot hotel. |
|Current facts/truths: I have two brothers | |Past Continuous


USE

We use the past continuous to talk about an action that was in progress at a certain time in the past, an action at some point in the past between its beginning andend
Example: He was working in the garden at 7 o’clock this morning.




Positive form


Subject + was/were + (-ing) + Complement

Examples:
-          Michael was watching the World Cup match.
-          They were working all night long.
-          Josh and Silvia were talking about getting married.

Negative form


Subject + wasn’t/weren’t + (-ing) + Complement

Examples:-          John wasn’t eating because he was feeling sick.
-          Jeff wasn’t watching TV.
-          My parents weren’t having a good time because it was very cold in Canada

Question Form(Question Word) + was/were + Subject + (-ing) + Complement

-          What were you doing last night at around 8:00pm?
-          Was Jim doing his homework?
-          Were they sleeping allmorning?







EXERCISES:
Fill in the blanks with am/is/are/do/don’t/does/doesn’t
1. Excuse me _____ you speak English?
2. Have a cigarette. No, thank you. I _____ smoke.
3. Why ____ youlaughing at me?
4. What ____ she do? She’s a dentist.
5. I ____ want to go out. It ____ raining.
6. Where ____ you come from? From Canada.
7. How much ____ it cost to send a letter to Canada?
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