Additional literature

4. Романович А.Ю.,Михайлович Е.Д. Brush up your English, Устный экзамен по английскому языку без проблем Москва 2008

5.“Essential grammar” R.Murphy. Second edition. Pre-Intermediate level. Cambridge University Press. 2009.

 

 

HAND-OUT Discipline: English as a foreign language Lexical theme: My close friend (Appearance) Pre-intermediate Grammatical theme: Present Continuous Practical lesson 4 Assistant-Professor A. K. Tassyrova

 

Warming-up:Give the equivalent of the proverb in Kazakh/ Russian. The best mirror is an old friend.

GRAMMAR: Present Continuous

Positive	Negative	Question
I am eating	I’m not eating	Am I eating?
You are eating	You’re not eating	Are you eating?
He/she/ it is eating	He/she/it isn’t eating	Is he/she/it eating?
We are eating	We’re not eating	Are we eating?
You are eating	You’re not eating	Are you eating?
They are eating	They’re not eating	Are they eating?
We form the Present Continuous like this:be+ing form. Eg. I am eating We use Present Continuous : · to talk about actions and situations in progress now: The bus is coming · to talk about actions and situations in progress around now but not exactly at the moment we speak: What are you doing this days? –I’m learning Spanish. · We don’t usually use Present Continuous to talk about opinions or thoughts: I like tennis (NOT I’m liking tennis) We don’t usually use this verbs in Present Continuous tense: like know hate love understand believe mean remember want

 

Here are the common Present Continuous questions. They all mean ‘How are you?’: How is it going? How are you getting on? How are you doing?