3. *Answer the following questions about yourself.
*Then introduce yourself to your classmates and instructor.
1. What’s your name?
2.What are you studying?
3.Why have you chosen this career?
4.What are your goals for the future?
5.What do you enjoy doing in your free time?
6. How would you describe your personality?
* Other
4. Compare
SIMPLE PRESENT
PRESENT PROGRESSIVE/CONTINUOUS
Usages:
1. Routines, everyday or usual
activities, schedules:
Examples: I get up at 5 a.m.
every day.
Our class starts at 6:30 P.M.
2. statements of fact:
Example: The sun rises in the
east
Usages:
1. Something is happening now, at
this moment; the action is in
progress.
Example: He is taking a shower
now.
2. Temporary activities (at present,
these days, currently)
Example: They are working on a
new project these days.
3. Future plans
Example: We are going to New
York next month.
5. Verb Tense Review
Simple Present
Positive
- Jerry plays tennis every day. / I eat an apple every
morning. } something that happens regularly
Negative
- Jerry doesn’t play tennis every day. / I don’t eat an
apple every morning.
Questions
- Does Jerry play tennis every day? / Do you eat an apple
every morning?
- What sport does Jerry play every day? / What do you
eat every morning?
6. Verb Tense Review
Present Progressive
Positive
- Jerry is playing tennis now. / I am eating an apple at this
moment. } something that is happening now, at this
moment; temporary activities (these days, currently)
Negative
- Jerry isn’t playing tennis now. / I’m not eating an apple at
this moment.
Questions
- Is Jerry playing tennis now? / Are you eating an apple at this
moment?
- What sport is Jerry playing now? / What are you eating at
this moment?
7. Activity 2
Put the verbs into the correct tense (simple present or
present progressive).
1. Look! He _____________ (leave) the house.
2. Quiet please! I ___________ (write) a test.
3. She usually ___________ (walk) to school.
4. But look! Today she ______________ (go) by bike.
5. Every Sunday we _________ (go) to see my grandparents.
6. He often ___________(go) to the cinema.
7. We ______________ (play) Monopoly at the moment.
8. The child never _________(cry) .
8. Verb Tense Review
Simple Past
Positive
- Jerry played tennis yesterday. / I ate an apple this
morning. } something that began and ended in the
past
Negative
- Jerry didn’t play tennis every day. / I didn’t eat an
apple this morning.
Questions
- Did Jerry play tennis every day? / Did you eat an apple this
morning?
- What sport did Jerry play yesterday? / What did you eat this
morning?
