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Present Progressive

The Present Progressive is also called present continuous. It is used to indicate actions happening at the time of speaking
or used for planned future actions.

How to form the present progressive

Affirmative Subject + Be + verb+ ing + complement

Negative Subject + Be + not + verb+ ing + complement
Yes/No Questions Be + subject + verb + ing + complement

Affirmative Negative Interrogative

I am eating. I am not eating. Am I eating?
You are studying. You are not studying. Are you studying?
He is singing He is not singing. Is he singing?
She is dancing. She is not dancing. Is she dancing?
It is raining. It is no training. Is it raining?
We are speaking. We are not speaking. Are we speaking?
They are walking. They are not walking. Are they walking?

Affirmative Negative
I’m eating. I’m not eating.
You’re studying. You’re not eating or You aren’t eating.
He’s singing. He’s not singing or He isn’t singing.
She’s dancing. She’s not dancing or She isn’t dancing.
It’s raining. It’s not raining or It isn’t raining.
We’re speaking. We’re not speaking or We aren’t speaking.
They’re walking. They’re not walking or They aren’t walking.

Rules:
1. Verbs ending in silent “e” 2. Verbs ending with a consonant + vowel + consonant, repeat the last
consonant.
VERB VERB -ING VERB VERB -ING
drive driving swim Swimming
lose losing run running
live living plan Planning
dance dancing stop Stopping
begin Beginning
3. Verbs ending in “ie”, change “ie” to “y”.

VERB VERB -ING

die dying
lie lying
tie tying
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The adjectives
An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun. It provides more description and detail about:
person, place, thing or idea.

An adjective is a word that modifies a noun. It tells extra information about it. Use
Adjectives come before a noun. For example, a rich man, a happy girl, a good studen

Adjective + noun
When we use adjectives with a noun in English, the adjectives go before the noun.
• It’s an expensive guitar.
• It’s a guitar expensive.
• She has a new car.
• She has a car new.
Am/is/are + adjective
We can also use adjectives without a noun after the verb be.
• This guitar is expensive.
• Her car is new.
In questions, the adjective can go after be + subject.
• Is your car new?
• Are your classmates nice?
Feel/look/smell/sound/taste + adjective
We can also use adjectives without a noun after the verbs of the senses: feel, look, smell, sound, taste.
• Your idea sounds interesting.
• I don’t like this soup. It tastes horrible.
• You look tired.
• These cookies smell delicious.
• I feel depressed.
No plural
Adjectives in English have no plural. They are always singular.
• These are my favourite shoes.
• These are my favourites shoes.
• She has blue eyes.
• She has blues eyes.
Very/quite
We can use very and quite before the adjectives.
• It’s very expensive.
• It’s quite expensive.

Adjectives vs adverbs
Adverbs can be used to modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs, whereas adjectives only modify nouns and pronouns.
When used to modify a verb, an adverb describes how an action is being performed (e.g., Brandon runs slowly).

Adverbs are often formed from adjectives by adding the suffix “-ly.” However, not all words ending in “-ly” are adverbs
(e.g., “ugly” is an adjective).
Adverbs can be formed from adjectives in numerous other ways, depending on the ending

Original ending Adverbial ending Example

-y -ily (replacing the “y”) easy; easily
-le -y (replacing the “e”) gentle; gently
-ic -ally tragic; tragically

How to order adjectives

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Attributive adjectives and determiners are typically given in a specific order according to their function. This isn’t an
order that English speakers learn as a set of rules, but rather one that people pick up intuitively and usually follow
without thinking about it:
• Determiner (e.g., a, the, one)
• Opinion (e.g., beautiful, valuable, indecent)
• Size (e.g., big, small, tiny)
• age (e.g., hundred-year-old)
• Shape (e.g. round, square)
• Color (e.g., white, brown, red)
• Origin (e.g., Dutch, aquatic, lunar)
• Material (e.g., wooden, metal, glass)
• Purpose (e.g.shopping, gardening)

Examples:
• An amazing new American movie.
• He's a nice young guy
• She is wearing a gorgerous pink silk dress

Vocabulary: Adjectives
Describing a fase

Face Eyes Nose Eyebrows

round hooded humped shaggy
oval round pointed thin
square almond-shaped sharp plucked
triangle deep set straight arched
long close set snub soft arch
freckled wide set aquiline high arch
rosy turned up thick
puffy crooked upwards
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Adjectives Opposites Adjectives Opposites

Beautiful Ugly Clean Dirty
Brave Cowardly Rich Poor
Happy Sad Tall Short
Big Small Young Old
Hot Cold Bright Dull
Good Bad Hard Soft
Strong Weak Noisy Quiet
Smart Dumb Thick Thin
Fast Slow Heavy Light
Interesting Boring Kind Mean
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Activity in Class

I. Write the sentences in present progressive:

play Watch TV buy dance

Annie

Lisa

Peter and
Mary
You

II. Listen to the two different situations and complete the following sentences.

What are these people doing?

Audio 1:
1. ______________________________________________________________________________________.
2. ______________________________________________________________________________________.

Audio 2:
1. ______________________________________________________________________________________.
2. ______________________________________________________________________________________.

III. Listening: Who is who?

IV. Write a paragraph. What does… look like?

________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
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Name Chris Hemsworth

Age 40
Nationality Australian
Job Actor
Height Tall
Weight/ body Well built, muscular
shape
Hair Short, blonde
Eyes blue
personality Charismatic, intelligent, popular
Family Wife, 3 children

V. Listening: Choose true or false

1. Maria has brown, curly hair. T F
2. Maria and Catherine have the same color eyes. T F
3. Maria’s face is longer than Catherine’s. T F
4. Catherine’s nose and mouth look like Maria’s. T F
5. Catherine is taller than Maria. T F
6. Maria isn’t as outgoing as Catherine. T F
7. Catherine is older than Maria. T F
8. Both Catherine and Maria are independent. T F

VI. Listening:
Mr Johnson Mr Parker Mrs King Miss Wood Mr Chandler

Mrs Brighouse Ms Tully Mrs Amos Mr Willis Mr Joseph

1. ________________ 6. ________________
2. ________________ 7. ________________
3. ________________ 8. ________________
4. ________________ 9. ________________
5. ________________ 10. ________________

VII. WORK GROUP:

Task: Describe the physical appearance. Imagine that you are a robbery victim and you tell the police about
what the burglars look like (Complete the chart and write a paragraph). Who is he/she?

Detailed descriptions of Criminals Appearance :

Sex: ……………………………………………..
Height : .………………………………………………
Build : ……………………………………………..…
Hair : ………………………………………….……
Eyes : ………………………………………….……
Nose : ………………………………………….……
Face: ………………………………………………….
Color/race : ……………………………………………….
Unusual features: ……………………………………..
clothing : ………………………………………….…….