PRESENT

PROGRESSIVE
TEACHER ISAAC GRANADOS
Use of the Present Progressive

1. Actions happening at the moment of speaking.

 Peter is reading a book now.
2. Temporary actions
 I am working in Rome this month.
3. Actions happening around the moment of
speaking (longer actions)
 My friend is preparing for his exams.
Use of the Present Progressive

4. Trends
 More and more people are using their computers to listen to
music.
5. repeated actions which are irritating to the speaker
(with always, constantly, forever)
 Andrew is always coming late.
6. Signal words
 Now
 At the moment
 Look!
 Listen!
Form (present progressive)

Long forms Contracted forms

 Subject/pronoun + to be (am, are, is) + Infinitiv + -ing

I am
 playing football.
Affirmative I'm playing
sentences in the Present football.
Progressive

You are playing football. You're playing football.

He is playing football. He's playing football.

 Negative sentences in
the Present Progressive

Long forms Contracted forms

I am not playing football. I'm not playing football.

You're not playing football.

You are not playing football.
You aren't playing football.

He's not playing football.

He is not playing football.
He isn't playing football.
 Questions in the Present
Progressive

Long forms Contracted forms

Am I playing football?

Are you playing football? not possible

Is he playing football?
Spelling Tip

 Verbing (Present Participle)

 Add ing to most verbs. Ex. play > playing, cry > crying, bark >
barking
 For verbs that end in e, remove the e and add ing. Ex: slide >
sliding, ride > riding
 For verbs that end in ie, change the ie to y and add ing. Ex: die
> dying, tie > tying
 For a verb whose last syllable is written with a consonant-
vowel-consonant and is stressed, double the last letter before
adding ing. Ex: beg > begging, begin > beginning. However:
enter > entering (last syllable is not stressed)