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PRESENT CONTINUOUS Práctica Dirigida

Food is our fuel
The present continuous is made from the present tense Everything that is alive needs energy. All animals get the
of the verb be and the –ingform of a verb: energy they need from food. People are animals. Think
about the human body as an amazing machine. It can
I am working
do all kinds of things for us. Food is the fuel that helps
You are playing
keep the amazing machine running.
He is talking
Plants use sunlight to make their own food. Animals
She is living
are not able to do that. Some animals eat plants. Some
It is eating
animals eat other animals as meat. Some animals, like
We are staying
people, eat both plants and animals.
They are sleeping
Since plants make their own food using sunlight, the
sun’s energy is found in plants. The sun’s energy is very
strong. It loses a lot of its strength by the time it goes into
We use the present continuous to talk about:
a plant.
• activities at the moment of speaking: When we eat plants, we get more of the sun’s energy
I’m just leaving work. I’ll be home in an hour. than when we eat animals. That’s why it is good to eat
Please be quiet. The children are sleeping. fruits and vegetables. When an animal eats a plant, the
energy is less strong. The animal also used its energy to
• future plans or arrangements: find the plant to eat. When a second animal eats the first
Mary is going to a new school next term. animal, it gets even less energy than the first animal got.
What are you doing next week? The second animal used a lot of energy to chase its prey.
Like a car that has to be filled with gasoline, living things
We make questions by putting am, is or are in front of have to eat again and again. Instead of gasoline, living
the subject: things use food as fuel.

– Are you listening? 1. Where do all animals get their energy?

– Are they coming to your party?
– When is she going home? A) from the sun
– What am I doing here? B) from food
C) from gasoline
D) Animals don’t need energy
We make negatives by putting not (or n’t) after am, is
E) from air
or are:

– I’m not doing that. 2. Where do plants get their energy?

– You aren’t listening. (or You’re not listening.)
A) from sunlight
– They aren’t coming to the party. (or They’re not co-
B) from animals
ming to the party.)
C) from food
– She isn’t going home until Monday. (or She’s not going
D) from other plants
home until Monday.)
E) from fruit

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3. If our bodies are amazing machines their food is our • A sphere is shaped like Earth. It is also like a play-
______. ground ball.
• A square pyramid has a square on the bottom, and
A) sunlight four triangle - shaped sides.
B) fruit
C) vegetable 6. What is a dimension?
D) fuel
E) plant A) Something you can see just in movies.
B) Part of a solid.
4. Why do we get more energy from eating vegetables than C) The direction something can be measured.
we get from eating meat? D) Flats things
E) Something about 3 - D movies.
A) Because the sun’s energy is less strong in meat.
B) Because the sun’s energy is stronger in meat. 7. How can flat, two - dimensional things be measured?
C) Because meat doesn’t have energy.
D) Because vegetables are the best. A) length and width
E) Because we don’t eat meat. B) length
C) width
5. What is the best synonym of “strong”? D) height
E) length, width and height
A) weak
B) hard 8. What are three - dimensional shapes called in math?
C) low
D) faint A) Flat
E) pale
B) Height
C) Measure
Práctica Domiciliaria D) Solids
E) Movies

3 - D: It is not just for movies 9. What shape are the sides of a cube?
You may have heard of 3 - D movies. You may have even
seen one. The D in 3 - D stands for dimensional. A dimen-
A) triangles
sion is a direction that something can be measured. Flat
B) prism
things can be measured in two ways. They can be mea-
C) rectangles
sured by length and by width. That’s why flat things are
D) dimension
sometimes called 2 - D or two - dimensional. Three - di-
E) squares
mensional things can be measured in three ways. They
can be measured by length and width like flat things.
10. What does a sphere look like?
They can also be measured by their height. Height is what
lets them come up off the paper or the screen.
Three - dimensional shapes in math are called solids. A) like the Earth or a ball
Let’s look at some of the most common solids. B) like a 3 - D movies
• A cube has six square sides. The sides are called faces. C) like a flat thing
• A rectangular prism has six sides that are all shaped D) like length and width
like rectangles. E) like two - dimensional shapes

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1- B 2- A 3- D 4- A 5- B
6- C 7- A 8- D 9- E 10 - A