Present Continuous Vs

Simple Present Review

INFI Level 11 Unit 2

Simple Present
● For facts or things that are
always or generally true
● For regular habits or
repeated actions
USES
Present
continuous
● For an action happening
right now, at the moment of
speaking
● To talk about something
that is happening AROUND
the moment of speaking but
not at this exact moment.
Simple Present Present
continuous
● Always - Often - Generally - ● Now - right now
Sometimes - never... ● At the moment
● Every day - every week - every ● Still
year… ● Today - this week - this year...
● Once a day - twice a week - three
times a month

Common time expressions used

● In the morning - in the afternoon
- at night

with each tense

 Simple Present Present continuous
i i am reading a great
you book
we go to school at 7am you
they every day we are reading a
they great book
he
she sometimes goes to he
it school with me she is eating a
it delicious chicken

Affirmative sentences
 Simple Present Present continuous
i i am not listening to
you music
we don’t speak Italian you
they we are not listening
they to the teacher
he
she doesn’t know how to he
it cook she is not sleeping on
it the couch

Negative sentences
 Simple Present Present continuous
i a i talking to
you m loud?
Do we understand youlistening
they the topic? we
are to the
they
teacher?
he
she enjoy horror he
does it movies? shesleeping
is it on the
couch?

interrogative sentences