WEEK 30th – LISTENING, READING, AND WRITING ABOUT CURRENT ACTIONS: PRESENT CONTINUOUS - 3RO & 4TO

 

WEEK 30th – LISTENING, READING, AND WRITING ABOUT CURRENT ACTIONS: PRESENT CONTINUOUS

PURPOSE:To improve students speaking, reading & writing comprehension abilities (Mejorar las capacidades de comprensión oral, lectora y producción de textos).

COMPETENCIES: Students can listen, read, and understand written texts using English as a foreign language. (Escuchan, leen y comprenden textos orales y escritos en inglés como lengua extranjera)

CAPACITIES:

1.Students manage vocabulary given in English. (Comprenden y manejan el vocabulario dado).

2.Students recognize main ideas and make explanations about by basic structures given assertively. (Reconocen ideas principales y comentan sobre ellas o responden preguntas de manera asertiva).

3.Students recognize and use ING verb forms in the present Continuous with accuracy. Los estudiantes reconocen y usan formas irregulares de los verbos en pasado con un mínimo de error. Comparan entre las acciones del presente y el pasado.

CLASS ACTIVITY:

1.     Listen and sing

2.     Underline Present Continuous forms

3.     Read the grammar explanation and produce sentences: 5 Affirmatives, 5 Questions, 5 Negatives

Lemon Tree

Fools Garden (SONG)

         VIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAFS43NKFag

 

I'm sitting here in the boring room

It's just another rainy Sunday afternoon

I'm wasting my time

I got nothing to do

I'm hanging around

I'm waiting for you

But nothing ever happens and I wonder

I'm driving around in my car

I'm driving too fast

I'm driving too far

I'd like to change my point of view

I feel so lonely

I'm waiting for you

But nothing ever happens and I wonder

I wonder how

I wonder why

Yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky

And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree

I'm turning my head up and down

I'm turning turning turning turning turning around

And all that I can see is just another lemon-tree

I'm sitting here

I miss the power

I'd like to go out taking a shower

But there's a heavy cloud inside my head

I feel so tired
Put myself into bed
While nothing ever happens and I wonder
Isolation is not good for me
Isolation I don't want to sit on the lemon-tree
I'm stepping' around in the desert of joy
Baby anyhow I'll get another toy
and everything will happen, and you wonder
I wonder how
I wonder why
Yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky                    And all that I can see is just another lemon-tree
I'm turning my head up and down
I'm turning turning turning turning turning around
And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree
And I wonder, wonder
I wonder how
I wonder why
Yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky
And all that I can see, and all that I can see, and all that I can see
Is just a yellow lemon-tree
Is just a yellow lemon-tree

GRAMMAR EXPLANATION:

Present continuous

Level: beginner

The present continuous is made from the present tense of the verb be and the –ing form of a verb:

Present continuous affirmative

 

SUBJECT + BE + VERB ing + COMPLEMENT

I               am          working  on a new project now.

You         are          playing   ping pong, aren’t you?

He           is             talking    to Sandra at the moment.

She         is             living        in Cusco now.

It             is            eating     its dog cookies.

We         are          staying    at home these days.

They       are          sleeping now.

Present continuous questions

We make questions by putting am, is or are in front of the subject:

BE + SUBJECT + VERB ing + COMPLEMENT +  ?

Are         you         listening?

Are         they        coming to your party?

When     is            she going home?

What      am          I doing here?

Present continuous negatives

 

We make negatives by putting not (or n't) after am, is or are:

SUBJECT + BE/NOT + VERB ing + COMPLEMENT

I'm          not                         doing that.

You         aren't                     listening.

(or You're not listening.)

They       aren't                     coming to the party.

(or They're not coming to the party.)

She         isn't                        going home until Monday.

 (or She's not going home until Monday.)