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Form: Verb to be in the present + rain verb + ing Examples:

The Present Continuous is used to express the actions we are doing in this moment or what is happening right now. • I am playing tennis with my friend. • She is talking by phone with her mother. • Martha isn´t using the computer. She is taking a break. • Javier is doing exercise in the gym.

Questions: • Are you taking a bath? Yes, i am./ No i am not. • Is Luis studying for the exam? Yes, he is studying a lot./No, he is watching TV. • What are you doing? I am reading na interesting book. • Where are they going? They´re going hunting with their friends.

We can also use the Present Continuos to talk about our plans for the future. • I´m working this Saturday.I´m finishing a report. • My mother is baking a cake tomorrow.It´s my birthday. • They aren´t going to the party tonight.They need to study. • James is playing soccer next week.Would you like to come?

Questions. • Are you going cycling tomorrow morging? Yes, I´m going. • Were are you staying in U.S.A? I´m staying at my mother´s house.

• Is your father traveling next weekend? No,he´s working in the garden. • When are you finisging classes? I´m finishing next week. • Are they going shopping tomorrow? No, they are going swimming.

We use the Simple Present for things that happens sometimes or all the time.In this tense we need to add to the verbs the termination”s,es” in third person (he, she, it).

• I exercise in the mornings. I go to the gym every day. • The stores open at 9:00 a.m. And close at 7.00 p.m. • He works very hard. He cooks in a restaurant. • The earth goes around the sun. • She always reads interesting books. • My mother watches horror movies.

To form the negative form, we use the auxiliar don´t and doesn´t.

• I don´t go cycling on weekends. • They don´t play video games in their house. • She doesn´t go fishing every summer.

Form: →was/were + -ing Example: She was surfing. I was surfing. We were surfing.

Form: →Regular verbs and Irregular verbs Example: I went to an … If you loved me … She said she liked the …

Use For habitual actions, permanent

situations, programmes or timetables and general truths or natural laws.

Exemple: -Luc lives in the province of nova scotia. -The film starts at nine o´clock. -The Earth goes round the sun.

Use: For habits or actions wich took place in

the past. Exemple: -I Went to an island in Maine with a group

of friends. -If you loved me, you wouldn´t say such

cruel things. -She said she liked the island.

Compound nouns The Future will going to

Compound nous is the junction of two nouns(noun + noun ), also an adjective and noun(adjective + noun) or verb and adjective(adjective +noun)

Examples 1. Boyfriend ( noun + noun) 2. Dry-cleaning ( adjective + verb ) 3. Red HEAD ( Adjective + noun )

Decisões – na hora -will Previsões –sem base – will

- com plano – going - com base-going to

Examples : I will probably see you only on Monday . I will help you with your homerhork. Look at those louds it is going to rain (RAIN) tomorrow. It will rain (RAIN) tomorrow . I’m going to your birthday party tomorrow .

Form: verb to be in the present + main verb + ing; Example: - He is leaving. - I am not leaving. - Are we leaving?

Form: Verb (to be) in the past + main verb + ing; Example: - He was leaving; - I wasn´t leaving; - Were we leaving;