Present continuous active (настоящее длительное время)

Present Continuous употребляется:

• для выражения длительного действия, совершающегося в момент речи: Look! It’s raining.

• для выражения длительного действия, совершающегося в настоящий период времени, хотя не обязательно в момент речи: My mum’s learning English in the evenings.

• для обозначения намерения совершения будущего действия или уверенности в его совершении:

We are playing tennis tomorrow.

Present Continuous не употребляется с глаголами, выражающими чувства, восприятия и умственные состояния: like, love, hate, want, need, prefer, know, realize, suppose, mean, understand, believe, remember, belong, contain, consist, depend, seem:

I like this music. (NOT I’m liking this music)

1. Утвердительная форма

 + to be + Ving I am writing now.

You are reading now.

He/she/it is eating now.

We are going now.

They are talking now.

2. ВОПРОСИТЕЛЬНАЯ ФОРМА

To be +  + Ving? Am I writing now?

Are you reading now?

Is he/she/it eating now?

Are we going now? Are they talking now?

3. ОТРИЦАТЕЛЬНАЯ ФОРМА

 + to be +not+Ving

I am not writing now.

You are not reading now.

He/she/it is not eating now.

ADVERBS

(right) now, at the moment

Weare not going now.

They are not talking now.

1. Participle I образуется путем прибавления суффикса -ing к форме инфинитива смыслового глагола без частицы to:

play-playing study – studying

2. Если глагол оканчивается на согласную + е, конечное -е опускается, и к глаголу прибавляется суффикс –ing:

write – writing make – making

3. Если глагол оканчивается на краткий ударный гласный + согласный, то конечный согласный удваивается:

p – pping tap – tapping

m – mming swim – swimming

g – gging jog – jogging

t – tting cut – cutting

Exercise 22. Put the verbs into the –ing form.

write - enjoy - go - talk - look - make -

try - build - start - study - rain – eat -

Exercise 23. What are these people doing? Use these verbs to complete the sentences.

Exercise 24. Use the words in brackets to complete questions.

1. ______________ this week?’ ‘No, he’s on holiday’. (Colin/work)

2. ‘Why ______________ at me like that? What’s the matter?’ (you/ look)

3. Jenny is a student at university’. ‘Is she? What ______________?’ (she/study)

4. _____________ ____________ to the radio? Or can I turn it off?’ (anybody/listen)

5. How is your English? ______________ better? (it/ get)

Exercise 25. Put the verb into the correct form. Sometimes you need the negative.

1. I’m tired. I ______________ (go) to bed now. Goodnight!

2. We can go out now. It ______________ (rain) any more.

3. ‘How is your new job?’ “Not so good at the moment. I ______________ (enjoy) it very much.’

4. Catherine phoned me last night. She’s on holiday in France. She ______________ (have) a great time.

5. I want to lose weight, so this week I ______________ (eat) lunch.

6. Angela has just started evening classes. She ______________ (learn) German.

7. I think Paul and Ann have had an argument. They ______________ (speak) to each other.