1. PRESENT CONTINUOUS OR PRESENT PROGRESSIVE

2. Present continuous ( affirmative)
This tense is also called the Present progressive.
It is present continuous to refers to something has begun and has not finished, something which is in the process of being completed.

3. Present continuous I´m studying English
My brother is talking on the phone now.
We are swimming in the ocean
Sue is reading a book right now.

4. Present continuous Spelling
Verbs ending in one consonant, add ing
Wait waiting
2. Verbs ending in e, drop e and add ing
make making decide deciding
write writing
3. Verbs ending with one vowel and one consonant, double the consonant.
sit sitting swim swimming cut cutting

5. Present continuous Spelling
4.Verbs ending ie, change ie to y lie lying tie tying die dying 5. Verbs ending in a vowel and y, add ing stay staying play playing say saying

6. Present continuous Sam (drink) __________ some milk
You (stand)___________ on my foot
Mike (stay)___________ at this hotel
You (sit) _____________ in my place
We (have)___________ a good time
I can´t talk now . I(wash) _____ my hair
Tim and Sue (write) _______ letters.
It (snow)________________ now.

7. Present continuous Choose the correct spelling.
Jean is swimming /swiming in the pool right now.
The girls are putting /puting on their coats.
Hurry up! We´re / wer ´e waiting for you.
Look outside! Its/ it´s snowing!
Paula is studing/ studying economics in Washington.
I can´t come now. I´m writting/writing a letter.

8. Present continuous ( affirmative, negative, interrogative)
I am waiting She is waiting
I´m not waiting She isn´t waiting
You´re not waiting They aren´t waiting
It isn´t waiting
Am I waiting? Are you waiting?
Is he waiting? Is it waiting?
_______________________________
What are you doing? I am fixing my car
Are you reading? I ´m not reading

9. Present continuous exercises
Correct each sentence or question.
I playing tennis with my best friend
You´re coming to the show tonight?
John and Mandy don´t going to the beach
What is the noise? The dog is outside?
I aren´t watching TV. Turn it off.
Fred are eating a sadwich for his lunch
Are waiting they for a bus?