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Topic 5 Tell me about your family

Lesson Objectives

• Learn present continuous tense. • Manage the use of quantifiers. • How to apply vocabulary on family members and
relatives.

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Introduction
The Benefits of a Family Tree

Memories fool people and a well constructed family tree will settle doubtful issues. Pictures and stories may be inserted in the family tree and a full book written using genealogical data and the certificates and documents collected. If you are creative, making a family tree is a joy. I am notand right now all my genealogy is in looseleaf notebooks, one for each family and all the certificates are in acid-free, archival quality folders along with the pictures.
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As important as you all know a family is, you are all members of one regardless of the situation you may all live in family there is only one. Youneed to be prepared to learn new forms of calling your family in English; they all might be the key for your practice if you do not have anyone to talk to in English.
In this topic you will learn about family and relationships, using the present continuous tense, you will also learn a new set of vocabulary and even create your own family tree, isn’t that fun! Be sure to play close attention to anynew word that you may encounter, leave no doubts or questions behind feel as if it were your home relax and enjoy the class. Let´s get started on this new Topic!
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5.1 Present Continuous
PresentContinuous is mainly used to express an idea of something that is happening at the moment of speaking. Another use of this tense is to talk about what we are planning to do.
5 WAYS OF USING PRESENT CONTINUOUS 1 2 3 4 5 Present actions Temporary actions Longer actions in progress Future arrangements and plans To talk about actions happening at the moment of speaking. Used for activities continuing foronly a limited period of time. When we are in a middle of doing something time consuming. To show that something will be done in the near future.

Irritation over something or To express irritation or anger over somebody or something in the somebody in the present present

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To form a sentence using the PresentContinuous tense you need the auxiliary verb to be and know the proper conjugation:
Person 1st 2nd 3rd I am You are He/she/it is Singular We are You are They are Plural

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To form the past participle ofthe verb you need to add the “ing” suffix at the end. Examples: Trying Walking Writing Talking Showing Singing

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Here are the affirmative and negative form of contracting the verb to be:
CONTRACTED FORMS OF VERB TO BE AFFIRMATIVE I AM I´M YOU ARE HE IS SHE IS IT IS WE ARE THEY ARE YOU´RE HE´S SHE´S IT´S WE´RE THEY´REI AM NOT YOU ARE NOT HE IS NOT SHE IS NOT IT IS NOT WE ARE NOT THEY ARE NOT NEGATIVE I´M NOT YOU´RE NOT / YOU AREN´T HE´S NOT / HE ISN´T SHE´S NOT / SHE ISN´T IT´S NOT / IT ISN´T WE´RE NOT / WE AREN´T THEY´RE NOT / THEY AREN´T

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