Present Simple and Present Continuous. Use — lesson. IEP additional, Class 7-9.

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USE

	We use Present Simple for	We use Present Continuous for
1.	regular activities: routines / repeated actions / habits	things which are happening now or around now
2.	permanent actions / facts / laws of nature	temporary situations
3.	reviews / sports commentaries / narrations	changing situations
4.	timetables / programmes (future meaning)	fixed arrangements (in the near future)
5.	non-continuous (state or stative) verbs	repeated actions expressing annoyance

TIME EXPRESSIONS (or KEY WORDS)

Present Simple	Present Continuous
every day every other day in the mornings on Mondays at night at seven o'clock at weekends in (the) winter once a day all the time from time to time always usually regularly often sometimes rarely seldom hardly ever never etc.	(right) now at the moment at present these days today/ tonight this morning Look! Listen! etc.

Revise the USE and TIME EXPRESSIONS of Present Simple.

Revise the USE and TIME EXPRESSIONS of Present Continuous.

FORM

Present Simple	Present Continuous
V / Vs	am / is / are + Ving

Revise the FORM of Present Simple.

Revise the FORM of Present Continuous.

You may also need to revise the verb "be" and the verb "have".

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V — Verb (the infinitive of the verb without "to"/ Present Simple verb (for I, we, you, they). E.g. write, go, listen, etc.

Vs — Present Simple verb (for he, she, it). E.g. writes, goes, listens, etc. Revise how to add "s" to a verb here.

Ving — Verb ending in "-ing" (Present Participle). E.g. writing, going, listening, etc. Revise how to add "ing" to a verb here.

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1. Present Simple and Present Continuous. Use