Verbs – Present Simple or Present Continuous?

Hello everyone.

It's Vivian here.

Um I'm getting ready to do my presentation for teaching,

practical sample thing on verbs, whether they are present, simple

or present, continuous, so I'm just going to jump right

in most of the information should appear on the screen

here. Um And let's see how it goes.

So um let's begin class.

Welcome. Welcome to everyone here.

Um I'm going to briefly take attendance because it's a

very small class today.

Um First student we have is a stuffed plague doctor

um very helpful and our second student is an orange

wooden horse.

You might also hear some birds in the background.

Um Those are my roommates cocktails and they're in the

classroom down the hall and they're just very rowdy.

So now that I've done attendance, I'm going to make

a bit of small talk with my students and asked

them to hand in homework, which was probably a short

paragraph writing assignment from last week.

And if we have a bunch of time before class

starts, I usually like to have a word search ready.

Um often since I'm teaching adult students, I show up

a few minutes like 15 minutes early, they show up

a bit early.

If the classroom is empty, it's a great time to

go through some questions, one on one stuff and for

other students, if they don't have anything, it's nice to

have, you know, something handy.

So I like doing a word search based on whatever

the theme of the week is.

So that's going on.

There's some chatter, I would also then start with asking

students about what did they do on the weekend, what

are they looking forward to?

You know, just getting some timeline ideas in there and

then once the class is ready to start off we

go. So I would ask and I am asking my

students such as they are, what are you doing, What

are you doing right now?

And in the classroom, I would be writing on the

white board behind me.

But given the lack of white board we do what

we can.

So Horse says, I am learning, you know, we all

hope horses learning, he's doing his best.

Um, and the plague doctor says, you know, I am

sitting in class, I am uh excited about going to

a zoo next week.

Um you know, when I ask questions like this in

the past you get all kinds of answers from, I

am, I'm hungry, I didn't eat dinner so you get

things all over the place.

Um I'd write most of them on the board, but

I would focus on ones that you know, I would

definitely be sure to write ones on the board that

focus more on the present, simple and present, continuous rather

than something a bit more difficult to tackle.

You know, keeping it kind of within scope.

So these are the ones I have looked at for

today. So I am in class, I am learning, I

am speaking english, I'm sitting on a chair, I'm excited

to go to the zoo tomorrow.

And I would then ask students, you know what, looking

at these, what do you notice, what is the same

about these sentences and what is different?

And we could talk a bit about um differences.

But mostly I would guide the discussion to the difference

between I am in class and I am learning and

just even looking at how the breakdown of um the

verbs are written.

So I would say well you know we can divide

present tense verbs into simple and continuous and that then

I would go into some examples here.

So present simple are things that we do regularly.

So usually I read a book at lunch.

Uh could someone else tell me about a habit they

have? I drink coffee every morning, so do I?

And you know, maybe get another couple examples.

I stay up far too late every night and I'd

be like, well that's a long sentence.

Tell me about the verb.

So the verb there is stay up and we could,

you know, have a brief discussion about that.

So then another example of things that are present simple

are things that are always true, water boils at 100

degrees great.

Who hasn't?

Another example of things that are always true?

Uh, something that is always true is I never returned

my library books on time.

Great. Um usually when I've asked questions like this before,

someone will say, politicians always lie.

You're like, well that's a little bit of an awkward

thing, but we'll go on.

You can use it with state of verbs and permanent

ish situations.

It doesn't have to be forever, but it should be

a significant length of time.

So we are in class.

Mahal lives in Toronto squirrels, eat all my tomatoes.

So those are our examples.

Next we can move on to the present, continuous and

it's things that we use with right now or today.

Right now.

I am swimming right now.

The water is boiling.

So you can put in the past to can someone

give me another example right now.

I am finishing my Starbucks latte and it's tragic.

I could do with one uh two.

Today I am riding the bus home.

Great action verbs, you are riding a bicycle.

We can talk if you want about the image and

other action verbs that are going on.

like the woman in the red shirt is smiling.

The woman in the blue shirt is also riding a

bicycle and you can use it for things that are

happening in the moment or in the future.

They are meeting with her boss tomorrow.

I am not going to the zoo.

And so we can see there's two kind of groups

here And I'm just going to pop back to the

previous slide for a second here.

See how it says, water boils at 100° and that's

present, simple, present continuous.

The water is boiling okay, so often so present continuous.

Often not necessarily always.

There's some exceptions because there's always exceptions Is a two

parter. So let's just do a quick little sort of

test run exercise here.

And is it simple?

Is it continuous?

So sentence one, It rarely rains in the desert.

Mm I think it's present.

Simple, good job horse.

Why is it present?

Simple because rains is the verb and it's talking about

a general truth.

It is like saying water boils at 100 degrees awesome

horse. I am proud of you.

She is always singing in the shower that is present

continuous. It is a habit and it goes with always

and often it only addresses annoying habits.

You can see there's the two parts in the verb

is and singing good job plague doctor.

He works at a hotel.

Okay, that is a permanent state.

It is maybe not forever but it happens for a

long time and there's only one part to the verb.

Good job.

She's working at the hotel until eight PM.

That is a temporary state.

It's a continuous verb.

You can see the is and the working so it's

not forever.

So yeah, it's continuous.

Yeah. Last one.

My flight is at seven a.m.

That is a present.

Simple. You can see that the verb is there's just

the one verb is and it also is a timetable

event which is another way to look at simple or

continuous. And so we know it's simple because it's a

timetable. Good job horse.

So now that you guys have some idea of what's

going on and if you have any questions you know

I'll be wandering around.

I'd like you to take out your workbook Turn to

page seven.

Turn to page 15 to Exercise 7.1.

And you're gonna work on that you know by yourself

in pairs And we'll give it about let's say 5:10

minutes. Um if you finish and you wanna keep going

you can go on to 7.2.

Um And you can see the two different kind of

activities that we have there.

The first one is um All right, let me pull

open my workbook here.

Okay, so seven who wants to read aloud what the

instructions are?

Thank you.

Horse, present, simple or present continuous is the verb form

and the sentences correct or incorrect correct the wrong sentences.

Great. We'll take this up in about, like I said

10 minutes max.

You should be fine.

All right.

And that's the end of my sample like chat.

Um Take care, have a good one.

And if you have any questions you know where to

reach me.

Bye bye.

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