1. SIMPLE PRESENT VS.
PRESENT CONTINUOUS
What’s the difference?

2. Simple Present
 Use the present simple for things that are always
true or happen regularly.
EXAMPLES
 I walk to school every day.
 Jane likes eating chocolate cookies.
 He doesn’t wear glasses.

3. Simple Present
 REMEMBER:
• The spelling rules:
Live - lives, study - studies, watch - watches
• Use Q A S I (Question, Auxiliary, Subject, Infinitive)
to help you with word order in questions.
 Where does she work?
• Put adverbs of frequency (usually, often, etc.) before
the main verb and after the verb to be
 I usually get up early.
 She’s never late.

4. Present Continuous
 Use the present continuous :
 For actions in progress at the time of speaking:
A: Who are you waiting for?
B: I’m waiting for a friend.
 For future arrangements:
A: What are you doing after class?
B: I’m going to the café.
• Remember the spelling rules:
live - living , study - studying , get - getting

5. Action and non-action verbs
 Verbs which describe actions can be used in the
present simple or continuous :
 I’m making pasta.
 I make pasta every Sunday.
• Verbs which describe states or feelings are not
normally used in the present continuous.
• Common non-action verbs are:
agree be believe belong
forget hate hear
know like love need
prefer seem suppose

6. What tense is it and why?
 She is running home.
 They play football every Sunday.
 Rob and Ellen enjoy playing tennis.
 She needs to buy a new car.
 The office staff is eating lunch.
 I don’t agree with you.
 The printer is broken.
 They are playing badminton at 4.

7. What is happening in the picture? Use both
simple present and present continuous!
This woman is wearing a black dress,
a red jacket and black high-heeled
shoes. She is sitting on a bench,
smoking a cigarrete. The bench is
dark green and, next to her, there are
two suit cases. One of them is brown
and the other one is black. There are
some bushes and a white fence
behind her.

8. What is
happening in
the picture?
This girl is Use both
doing sport,
she is lifting simple
weights. She present and
is wearing present
black
leggings and continuous!
a black top.
She is fit and
tanned.

9. What is happening in the picture? Use both
simple present and present continuous!
These children are playing football.
They are having a good time. They are
in a park and they are playing on the
grass. There are very big and green
trees.

10. This man is skiing. He is
wearing warm clothes. The
snow is very white, the sky is What is
blue and it is sunny. happening in
the picture?
Use both
simple
present and
present
continuous!