1. Tenses (II) – Present
continuous (1)

2. Use
 Temporary events and actions.
E.g: - I’m reading a mistery novel.
 To stress the repetetiveness of an action.
E.g: - She’s always crying!
 Signal words:
• at the moment
• at this moment
• today
• now
• right now
• Listen!
• Look!
• (...)

3. Use
 Exceptions.
• Silent e  is dropped (NOT APPLY FOR –ee)
E.g: come – coming / agree – agreeing
• After a short, stressed vowel  final consonant is doubled
E.g: sit – sitting
• After a vowel, the final consonant “l” is doubled
E.g: travel - travelling
• Final “ie”  becomes “y”
lie - lying

4. Affirmative form
I am  “am”  I
you are  “is”  he, she, it and the
he/she/it is singular form of nouns
we are
 “are”  you, we, they and
you are
the plural form of nouns
they are
 Subject + verb “to be” + verb –ing + ...
E.g: - I am watching TV.

5. Negative form
 We put “not” between the form of be and the verb –ing. (subject + verb “to
be” + NOT + verb –ing + ...)
E.g: I’m not watching TV.

6. Interrogative form
 We swop the places of subject and the form of be. (verb “to be” + subject +
verb –ing + ...?)
E.g: Are you watching TV?