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Activities: “How to use the present continuous in English?”

By: revel arroway

Activity 1: Calling 9-1-1!

Mike has called 911 emergency services because he hears someone in his house. Use the provided verbs to fill in the blanks in the present continous. Don't forget to use the auxiliary verb!

A drawing of a brown-skinned woman at a desk with a phone headset.

Dispatcher

A laughing black man with brown eyes in a green collared shirt.

Mike

break
come
do
look
open
send
sit
walk

  • Dispatcher: 911, what’s your emergency?

  • Mike: I think someone into my house!

  • Dispatcher: Where are you right now?

  • Mike: I in my bedroom.

  • Dispatcher: What the intruder ?

  • Mike: I’m not sure. I think he for something valuable to steal.

  • Dispatcher: Where is the intruder now?

  • Mike: Oh no! He up the stairs!

  • Dispatcher: Please stay calm. What he now?

  • Mike: He down the hall. Wait, he my bedroom door. He through the doorway!

  • Dispatcher: OK. We the police right now.

  • Mike: OH!

  • Dispatcher: Are you OK?

  • Mike: No problem here. It was just my roommate. He around in the dark and came into the wrong bedroom.

Activity 2: Is it happening currently?

We all have things we are currently doing. How about you? Make true sentences about your current activities using the following:

  1. read / a novel

  2. study / a language

  3. watch / a new TV series

  4. work / in a shop

  5. run / every morning

  6. work out / at the gym

  7. eat / healthy food

Activity 3: Tom’s Trip

Tom is going to visit his brother in Scotland in September. Can you see where he has made some mistakes in explaining the trip and correct his errors by typing them in the box below?

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