This document provides information about present simple and present continuous verb tenses in English. It explains that the present simple is used to talk about regular or habitual actions, and gives examples of adding "-s" or "-es" to verbs. The present continuous is used to describe actions happening now, and is formed with "be + verb + -ing". It also notes that verbs ending in "e" drop the "e" before adding "-ing", and lists some common verbs that do not take "-ing" in the present continuous form.

2. Present simple:
We use the present simple to talk about
things that we do often.
Present simple
-s -- -do -- -does.
We add –es when the verb ends in
ch, o,x or sh.
Example: He mixes the salad.

3. Present Continuous:
We use the present continuous to talk
about things that we are doing now.
Example: She is making a cake.
Present Continuous.
Verb to be + verb + ing
Am.
Play.
Playing.
Is.
Run.
Running.
Are.
Wash
Washing.

4. What happen if the
verb ends in -e?
When the verb ends in –e, we say
bye bye to the -e and we add
only -ing.
Example; You live in Barcelona.
You are living in Barcelona.

5. When do we add –ing?
We add –ing only with the
present continuous.
Examples: They are eating
salad.

6. Verbs that we don´t
add –ing?
In some verbs we don´t add –ing like
the verbs:
Like, want, need, prefer, know,
realise, suppose, mean, understand,
believe, remember, belong, fit,
contain, consist, seem…

7. TO: 4ºA, 4ºB and
the teachers.
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