Time Expressions in Present Continuous
Name: Castillo Montoya Sebastian Fernando
I. At the moment of using present continuous it is possible to emphasize every argument by
using time expressions / time complements. There are tine expressions for all tenses. In this
case, we have some examples for present simple and present continuous.
Now, let’s check how these expressions are used in context (including questions).
These days, I am cleaning my bedroom
They are fixing the car nowadays.
She isn’t painting the door currently.
We aren’t assisting to any concert physically now.
He is building an apartment complex at the moment.
We are ordering the bookshelf at present.
Right now
In questions:
A: What are you doing now?
B: I am cleaning my bedroom these days.
A: What is he doing nowadays?
B: He is building an apartment complex at the moment.
Exercise
a) Choose the correct time expression used with the present continuous tense.
Choose the correct time expression used with the present continuous tense.
1. They are cooking dinner (on the moment / now).
2. The company is preparing a report for their most important client (last / this) week.
3. My sister is studying for a test (at the moment / in the moment).
4. We're meeting Brian (on / at) three o'clock.
5. (Currently / Current) we're working on the Anderson account.
6. They aren't coming for dinner (this / at) evening.
7. Susan is playing tennis with Tim (now / then).
8. What are you doing (this / next) afternoon?
9. They're enjoying dinner (at / next) the moment.
10. What are you doing (tomorrow / yesterday) afternoon?
11. Henry is making the presentation (at / on) Wednesday.
12. Our teacher is helping us with grammar (that / this) morning.
13. My dog is barking (at the moment / in the moment).
14. We're finishing the business report (today / yesterday).
15. The clock is striking twelve o'clock right (now / soon). It's time to go!
16. Frank is flying to Chicago (this / that) morning.
17. We're reading that book (at the moment / on the moment).
18. Thomas is presenting at the meeting (on / in) April.
19. She's mowing the lawn (now / moment).
20. They're developing a new product (this / last) month.
II. Verbs of daily use: Like to, want to, need to, have to.
Look at the uses of these verbs downwards and complete the exercise after it.
a) I like to / don’t like to wash my car.
b) He wants to / doesn’t want to marry his girlfriend.
c) They need to / don’t need to sell more pastries.
d1) I / You / We / They have to- haven’t got to- don’t have to arrive on time.
d2) He / She / It has to- hasn’t got to – doesn’t have to pay the rent.
Exercise
a) Complete the spaces below about previously verbs stated beforehand. You must use one option for
each sentence: like to, want to, need to, have to, has to (in affirmative, interrogative or negative
forms according to each sentence.)
1. I need to wear a protective plastic on the streets.
2. Do we have to study at home before the final exam?
3. Does he doesn´t have to pay the rent in advance?
4. My parents got to travel to Netherlands.
5. Michael Jackson hasn´t to demonstrate anything, he is the best.
6. Anne Hathaway has to appear on another princess movie.
7. Does Julio Cesar Chavez has to fight one more time.
III.Sports
Sports represent an activity that helps humans to have and keep a good and safety health status. The first
documented and official practitioners were the Greek. However, the documented history of sports goes back at
least 3,000 years. In the beginning, sports often involved the preparation for war or training as a hunter, which
explains why so many early games involved the throwing of spears, stakes, and rocks, and sparring one-on-
one with opponents. With the first Olympic Games in 776 BC—which included events such as foot and
chariot races, wrestling, jumping, and discus and javelin throwing—the Ancient Greeks introduced formal
sports to the world. The following by no means exhaustive list takes a look at the beginnings and evolution of
some of today's most popular sporting pastimes.
a) Exercise. Write your answers in the square below.
IV. Clothes Vocabulary
We talk about clothes we want to say that people need to wear on something in order to cover from
different kinds of weather conditions.
Neanderthals were tanning animal skins more than 100,000 years ago.
People were already making finely worked bone needles 20,000 years ago, probably for embroidery as much
as sewing animal skins, like the thousands of ivory beads and fox teeth that covered the bodies of a girl and a
boy buried at Sunghir, Russia, around 28,000 years ago. This was some serious bling, representing years of
accumulated work.
Now, thousands of years later these are the clothes worn nowadays….
V. Reading Exercise
Answer this exercise by clicking on the link below these instructions and write your answers from this
website:
https://lingua.com/english/reading/city/
The city where I live
My name is Clark, and I will tell you about my city.
I live in an apartment. In my city, there is a post office where people mail letters. On Monday, I go to work. I
work at the post office. Everyone shops for food at the grocery store. They also eat at the restaurant. The
restaurant serves pizza and ice cream.
My friends and I go to the park. We like to play soccer at the park. On Fridays, we go to the cinema to see a
movie. Children don't go to school on the weekend. Each day, people go to the hospital when they are sick.
The doctors and nurses take care of them. The police keep everyone safe. I am happy to live in my city.
Where does Clark work?
R= In the post office
Where do people buy food?
R= In the grocery store
When does Clark go to the cinema?
R= Friday
Who keeps everyone safe?
R= The police
How does Clark feel about his city?
R= He is Happy
VI. How much + This, this, that and those1.
Exercise
Answer this exercise with how much + this, these, that or those. Here is an example to understand it better.
Example:
How much are these shoes?
They are twenty dollars and fifty cents.
