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Complete the table with the correct form of the verb to be + the verbs in backets + ing. Click on submit to check your answers.

Present Continuous

Affirmative sentences

He Cloze (1): JXUwMDMxJXUwMDFh Cloze (2): football. (play)

My parents Cloze (3): JXUwMDM5JXUwMDEzJXUwMDE3 Cloze (4): . (work)

They Cloze (5): JXUwMDM5JXUwMDEzJXUwMDE3 Cloze (6): the dishes. (wash)

I Cloze (7): JXUwMDM5JXUwMDBj Cloze (8): lunch. (eat)

Negative sentences

He Cloze (9): Cloze (10): . (sing)

Pat and Beth Cloze (11): Cloze (12): the computer. (use)

I Cloze (13): JXUwMDM5JXUwMDBj Cloze (14): JXUwMDM2JXUwMDAxJXUwMDFi Cloze (15): a jacket. (wear)

Interrogative sentences

What Cloze (16): JXUwMDMxJXUwMDFh Cloze (17): JXUwMDMwJXUwMDBk doing? He Cloze (18): JXUwMDMxJXUwMDFh Cloze (19): spaghetti. (cook)

What Cloze (20): JXUwMDM5JXUwMDEzJXUwMDE3 Cloze (21): JXUwMDIxJXUwMDE2JXUwMDFh doing? I Cloze (22): JXUwMDM5JXUwMDBj Cloze (23): my homework. (do)

Cloze (24): JXUwMDExJXUwMDNh Pam Cloze (25): volleyball? No, She Cloze (26): . (play)

Expresiones de tiempo utilizadas con el Presente Continuo

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Read the spelling rules and then write the -ing forms of the verbs. Click on submit to check your answers.

Most of the verbs

go + ing → going

study + ing → studying

read + ing → reading

write + ing → writing

have + ing → having

ee → see + ing → seeing

consonant + vowel + consonant

swim + ing → swimming

chat + ing → chatting

w → blow + ing → blowing

y → cry + ing → crying

x → fix + ing → fixing

Clic para ver la lista de verbos que no se utilizan en el Presente Continuo

walk

→

Cloze (1):

....

drive

→

Cloze (2):

....

sleep

→

Cloze (3):

talk

→

Cloze (4):

eat

→

Cloze (5):

shout

Cloze (6):

sit

→

Cloze (7):

carry

→

Cloze (8):

10.

smile

→

Cloze (9):

drink

→

Cloze (10):

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Write affirmative (+), negative (-), or interrogative sentences (?) in the Present Continuous and the verbs above.

1. I Cloze (1): JXUwMDM5JXUwMDBj Cloze (2): to town today. It's good exercise. (+) (walk)

2. Cloze (3): JXUwMDE5JXUwMDMzJXUwMDE3 you Cloze (4): to me? (?) (talk)

3. The baby Cloze (5): sleeping. (-)

4. We Cloze (6): Cloze (7): to work today. The car is broken. (-)

5. Kate Cloze (8): JXUwMDMxJXUwMDFh Cloze (9): a cup of coffee. (+)

6. Nancy Cloze (10): JXUwMDMxJXUwMDFh Cloze (11): next to Tom. (+)

7. Cloze (12): JXUwMDExJXUwMDNh he Cloze (13): all those books?

8.The teachers Cloze (14): JXUwMDM5JXUwMDEzJXUwMDE3 Cloze (15): . They look happy. (+)

9. What Cloze (16): JXUwMDM5JXUwMDEzJXUwMDE3 you Cloze (17): ?Are you hungry? (?)

10. My friend Cloze (18): JXUwMDMxJXUwMDFh Cloze (19): at his brothers. (+)

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Look what the people are doing. Then read the questions and label the pictures with the correct answer.


What's Bob doing?	Is she eating?	What's the cat doing?
Cloze (1):	Cloze (2):	Cloze (3):
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What are Batman and Robin doing?	What are they doing?	What are you doing, Tom?
Cloze (4):	Cloze (5):	Cloze (6):
.

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Look at the pictures and spot the differences. Then listen and decide if the sentences describe picture A or picture B.

Answer the exercises

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1.	Cloze (1): JXUwMDFh	...	2.	Cloze (2): JXUwMDFh	...	3.	Cloze (3): JXUwMDE5	...	4.	Cloze (4): JXUwMDFh	...	5.	Cloze (5): JXUwMDE5