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Unit 01.

Present continuous

John is in his car. He is in his way to work.

He is driving to work This means he is driving now: “at the time of speaking” This is the present continuous.

The present continuous is used to talk about actions happening at the time of speaking.

Example: Where is Mary? She is having a bath. (Not she has a bath) What are you doing at the moment in front of your screen? Don't you know? Well … you are reading this lesson. You are learning English.

The present continuous can also be used when an action has started but hasn’t finished yet.

Example: I am reading a book; it’s a nice book. (It means = I am not necessarily reading it; I started reading it but I haven’t finished it yet)

Writing Complete the sentences below, using the present continuous tense, according to your imagination: a) Listen to the birds. They _______________ . b) It ____________________ high in the sky. c) The Children are _________________ on the floor d) I feel happy because I _______________ with my friends.

Listening

Listen to these scenes from series and find out what the characters are doing:

a) _______________________________________________________ b) _______________________________________________________ c) ________________________________________________________ d) ________________________________________________________ e) _________________________________________________________ f) _________________________________________________________

Reading Read the text and answer the questions: I´m sitting on the beach, eating an icecream, Alice and Paul are swimming in the sea and Tom is in the park. He´s playing with a friend. Peter is listening to the radio and reading. We´re having a fantastic holiday. Abercwm is a little fishing village in north Wales with a park, a castle,some Roman remains and some lovely gardens, and theres a little fishing port with a lighthouse.

Everybody here is really friendly. I think we´re lucky. This is our second holiday this year and we´re doing just what we want to do:sleeping eating and playing games. The food is lovely too.

1) What´s the author of the text doing? __________________________ 2) What are Alice and Paul doing? __________________________ 3) What is Peter doing? __________________________ 4) Where´s Tom? __________________________ 5) Where´s Abercwm? __________________________

Speaking Look at the picture and describe what people are doing: