Activities: “How to use the present continuous in English?”
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!
Dispatcher
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:
read / a novel
study / a language
watch / a new TV series
work / in a shop
run / every morning
work out / at the gym
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?
