STAGE 3.- PRESENT PROGRESSIVE OR CONTINUOUS

Grammar Focus:

USES:

We use the present progressive or continuous tense to talk about:

• actions happening now or at the moment of speaking.

• actions happening for a short period of time.

• actions taking place in a near future.

SIGNAL WORDS

• at the moment

• now / just now / right now

• Listen!

• Look!

STRUCTURE

SPELLING RULES

1.  Verbs that end with one  -e, drop the -e and add -ing.  Note that these verbs the -e sound  at the end is silent. (e.g., believe, bake, take, move).

• achieve — achieving        

• live — living        

• take — taking      

• strike — striking

• bike — biking

• make — making

• have  — having

• dance — dancing

Verbs ending with a long -e sound, add -ing as you normally would.

• see — seeing

• be — being

• flee — fleeing

• agree — agreeing

2.  Short one-syllable verbs ending in CVC (a consonant + vowel + consonant), we double the final consonant before adding the -ing ending:

• sit — sitting      

• get — getting       

• pet — petting    

• plan — planning     

• run — running  

• put   — putting

• stop — stopping

• trim — trimming

• win  — winning

Notice these verbs end in CVC (consonant vowel consonant). However, do not double the consonant for verbs that end in w, x or y.

Verbs ending in w, x and y

• blow — glowing       

• row — rowing     

• snow— snowing

• stay — staying       

• tax — taxing

• play— playing

3.  When verbs ending in ending in CVC (consonant vowel consonant) have two or more syllables, double the last consonant if the last syllable is stressed.

• begin — beginning (be / GIN = the last syllable is stressed)

• forget  — forgetting (for / GET = the last syllable is stressed)

• upset — upsetting

• regret — regretting

• prefer  — preferring

• admit  — admitting

However, when the last syllable is not stressed, just add -ing as usual.

• benefit — benefiting ( be / NE / fit  = second syllable is stressed not  the last)

• happen — happening (HAPP / en = first syllable is stressed not  the last)

• open — opening

• listen — listening

4. Verbs ending in -ie .  If a verb ends in -ie change 'ie' to 'y' then add -ing.

• die — dying   

• lie — lying  

• tie — tying  

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Watch these videos and write at least

10 actions that are happening in the videos

PRACTICE # 1

PRACTICE # 2

PRACTICE # 3