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Welcome to the unit
Fashion
Unit8
Present continuous tense
We use the present continuous tense to talk about things that are happening now. We make positive and negative sentences using the present continuoustense like this:
Present continuous tense
The table below shows how we make the -ing form of a verb.
Can you work out the rule?
V. V-ing
play playing
sleep sleeping
write writing
take taking
lie lying
swim swimming
chat chatting
大多数动词后加ing
以不发音的e结尾的动
词,去e,再加ing
以ie结尾的动词,变ie为y,再加ing
以“辅元辅”结尾的动词,
双写结尾辅音字母,再加ing
What are they doing?
Kitty is writing about what she and her classmates are doing now. Help her complete the sentences with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.
is playing
is studying
is writing
is practising
is talking
are waiting
am looking
Can you work out the rule?
We ask and answer questions using the present continuous tense like this:
Can you work out the rule?
Amy and Sandy are talking on the phone. Complete their conversation. Use the present continuous tense of the verbs in brackets.
Are
doing
is visiting
is
doing
is playing
Are
playing
am lying
watching
are
doing
are cooking
Let’s read again.
1 Who is visiting Amy?
Shirley.
Shirley is playing computer games.
On the bed.
Amy’s parents are working in the kitchen.
2 What is Shirley doing?
3 Where is Amy watching TV?
4 What are Amy’s parents doing?
句型转化
1. Tim is playing tennis with his friend.(对画线部分提问)
2. Linda is walking to school.(改为一般疑问句)
3. The workers are working in the factory.(对画线部分提问)
Where are the workers working?
What is Tim doing with his friend?
Is Linda walking to school?
Exercises
填写单词的适当形式
1. The boy often ______ (take) exercise in the morning.
2. Be quite! The baby ______ (sleep) in the room.
3. —Where are the twins?
—Each of them _______ (do) the housework at home.
4. —Who ______ Liu Tao ______ (wait) for? —Mike.
5. What _____ they ___