Licenciatura en humanidades e ingles

Universidad la Gran Colombia

ENGLISH TUTORIALS

NAME ………………………………………………………….DATE…………………………GUIDE #2

TOPIC PRESENT PROGRESIVE

El tiempo presente progresivo ("present progressive") expresa una acción que se está desarrollando en el momento
presente, generalmente, una acción temporal que comenzó hace poco tiempo y que terminará pronto.
En inglés, al igual que en español, el tiempo presente progresivo está formado por el verbo auxiliar "be" (ser o
estar) conjugado en tiempo presente, más el "present participle" (form + ing) del verbo principal.

Unos ejemplos son:

Sujeto estar/ser present participle
I am eating.
You are working
She/He is playing
They are singing

Hay que algunas reglas ortográficas para tener en cuenta:

1. cuando el verbo normalmente acaba en "e" se elimina esta vocal y se agrega la terminación en gerundio
“ING” ejemplo: TAKE- TAKING MAKE -MAKING
2. cuando viene a un verbo monosilábico que termina en una vocal seguido por una consonante,
La consonante final se duplica antes del gerundio ING ejemplo: stop - stopping, sit-sitting; win – winning.
Pero cuando hay más de una vocal en el verbo, no se duplica la consonante ejemplo: rain - raining

Affirmative Subject To be verb ing Comp. My cat is climbing a tree.

Negative subject To be-not verb ing Comp. The computer isn’t working well.
Interrogative To be Subject verb ing Comp. ? Are you fixing the car?

TOPIC PAST PROGRESIVE

El tiempo pasado progresivo ("past progressive") expresa que Una acción se estaba desarrollando en un
momento del pasado o cuando otra acción ocurrió.

Sub - to be present particip

I was eating. I WAS Dancing at the disco.
You were working HE
She/He was playing SHE
They were singing IT
YOU WERE
We were watching TV when THEY
Claudia called. WE
Practice Present progresive

1) COMPLETE THE SENTENCES USING THE CORRECT VERB

a. John_____________ to Mary now (talk)
b. I_______________ television last night. (watch)

c. The children usually________________ to bed at nine o'clock. (go)

d. ______________ in Valencia, though she___________________ in Madrid at the moment. (live) / (stay)
e. you____________________ in a hotel at the moment, although you get your own apartment. (stay)
f. She____________________ from Chile, though she______________________ in New York just now.
(come) / (live)

2) Use the next clue words to make the tenses, in affirmative, negative and interrogative form.
(Notebook)
a) I/ to read a book.__________________________________________________________________
b) It/to rain ________________________________________________________________________
c) He/to repair his
bike________________________________________________________________
d) My brothers/to watch a
film__________________________________________________________
e) Laura and me / to visit a museum___________________________________________________
f) Your aunt /to come from England___________________________________________________
g) You/to open the window __________________________________________________________

Past progressive activity

Draw and describe the picture in past progressive 10 tenses.

3) Complete and Change the next tenses to past progressive in affirmative, negative and interrogative
form.
(Notebook)

1. cracking nuts __________________________________________________________

2. eating chocolates _______________________________________________________
3. decorating a tree ________________________________________________________
4. opening a present _______________________________________________________
5. playing a musical instrument ______________________________________________
6. drinking champagne _____________________________________________________
7. cutting a cake __________________________________________________________
8. putting the dinner in the oven ______________________________________________
9. lighting a firework _______________________________________________________
10. travelling by train__________________________________________________