Present continuous: Taller
- 1. En el anterior taller estudiamos un poco el presente simple.En este espacio vamos a estudiar el presente continuo (present continuous).Observa lo siguiente. En los anteriores ejemplos miramos quelas personas están haciendo las acciones ahora mismo.¿Quéestá el señor haciendo? Él está comiendo. ¿Cuándo? Ahora, ya. La estructura (I´m, she´s, he´s) ya la conoces y la entenderemos como estar (be), mírala: I am = I´m = yo estoy. We are= We´re = nosotros estamos. She is = She´s = ella está. You are= You’re = usted está. He is = He’s = él está. They are = They´re = ellos/ellasestán. 1. Translatethe following.(traduce lo siguiente) a) I´m writingan e-mail to Tomas. _______________________________________ b) She´s readinga sciencebook. _______________________________________ c) We´re visitingour friends. _______________________________________ d) They’re listeningto music at home. _______________________________________ e) He’s vacuumingthe floor. _______________________________________ f) You’re learning(aprender) English now. ______________________________________ Para negar frases como las anteriores basta colocarnot después del verbo. I am not doing (hacer) homework. She’s not walkingthe dog. We’re not catchingthe bus. 2. Write the sentences in negative. a) They are mopping the floor. _______________________________________ b) She is takingphoto. _______________________________________ c) We arelearningFrench. _______________________________________ d) I’m going to school. _______________________________________ e) He’s havinga bigbreakfast. _______________________________________ f) You areplayingvideo games. _______________________________________ Para hacer una pregunta solo colocasel verbo (am, is,are) delante del pronombre. Are you playingboard games? Is she dancing? Are they mowing the lawn? Ahora bien esta clasede preguntas se responden de la siguientemanera. Are you studyingEnglish? = Yes, I am. / No, I’m not. Is shemopping the floor now? = Yes, she is./ No, she is not. Is Carlos playingchess? Yes,he is./ No he´s not. 3. Make the followingsentences into questions,then answer them, both negative (not) and positive(yes) a) She’s havingbreakfast. _______________________________________? b) Maria is playingtennis. _______________________________________? c) John and David aregoing to the zoo. _______________________________________? d) Luisa is takingoutthe rubbish. _______________________________________? e) Sandra is doingthe shopping. _______________________________________? f) My mother is dustingthe furniture. _______________________________________? g) Carlos is meeting some friends at the university. _______________________________________? h) We’re catchingthe bus to school. _______________________________________? i) My father is readingthe newspaper. _______________________________________? j) My brothers are going to Calamar. _______________________________________? k) They’re watchinga film.(movie) _______________________________________? l) You’re taking(tomar) photos. _______________________________________? 4. Look at the pictureand say what they are doing. a) b) c) d) e) f) a) _______________________________________ b) _______________________________________ c) _______________________________________ d) _______________________________________ e) _______________________________________ f) _______________________________________ 5. Read the text about the Wallacefamily,and then answer the questions bellow. The Wallace Family. It´s Sunday morningand the Wallaceareathome. They are Fred and Susan Wallace.They have two children,Sam and Michelle.Fred works for a local computer factory and Susan is a journalist,butshe’s not working atthe moment. She has to take careof the children.Sam and Michelleareboth student. Fred always goes to work early,but today he’s vacuumingthe lawn while(mientras) Susan is cooking.Every day Sam goes to school,but today he is helpinghis mother with the cleaningup. Michellethe 7 years old girl is watchingTV. Él está comiendo. Ellos estánpescando. Ellos estáncorriendo
- 2. a) Who are the members of the Wallacefamily? ___________________________________________ b) How many children do Fred and Susan have? ___________________________________________ c) Where does Fred work? ___________________________________________ d) Is he working today Sunday? ___________________________________________ e) What is he doing? ___________________________________________ f) What’s Susan doing? ___________________________________________ g) Does Sam go to school every day? ___________________________________________ h) What’s Sam doing today? ___________________________________________ En el anterior ejercicio observamos palabrascomo who (¿quién?), what (¿qué?), where (¿dónde?) y how (¿cómo?). A estas palabrasselellaman en Ingles W-H quetion words o palabrasinterrogativas,en español.Hace parte también de este grupo la palabrawhy (¿por qué?), la cual es especial porque siempre debe responderse con because(porque). Por ejemplo: why areyou cooking now? (¿por qué estas cocinando ahora?). Because I am hungry. (Porque tengo hambre) 6. Answer the followingquestions aboutyou. Use true information. a) Who are the members of your family? _______________________________________ b) Where do you study? _______________________________________ c) What do you usually do atweekend? _______________________________________ d) How are you today? _______________________________________ e) What’s your name? _______________________________________ f) How many brothers or sister do you have? _______________________________________ g) Do you livewith your parents? _______________________________________ 7. Try to make the questions to the followinganswers. a) My name’s Sam. _________________________ b) I livein La Libertad. _______________________ c) I study at INELIB. _________________________ d) I have three brothers and one sister. _______________________________________ e) I’m fine, thanks. __________________________ f) I’m fifteen years old. ______________________ g) I’m listeningto music _____________________ h) Because I want (querer) to learn more? _______________________________________ En este momento valela pena hacer cierta aclaración con respecto al presente continuo. Todos los verbos que terminan en ‘e’ se les quita y se agrega ‘ing’ excepto see (ver) 8. Translateto Spanish the verbs above and then make a sentence with everyone in both present simpleand present continuous. a) _________________________________________ _________________________________________ b) _________________________________________ _________________________________________ c) _________________________________________ _________________________________________ d) _________________________________________ _________________________________________ e) _________________________________________ _________________________________________ f) _________________________________________ _________________________________________ Hasta este punto hemos visto lo básico deeste tema, ahora bien a partir de este momento vamos a estudiar cómo se utiliza el presente progresivo para dar una idea o un significado de futuro cuando lo utilizamos.Este es en si el tema de la unidad 1. Estudia lo siguiente. It’s (es) Tuesday and I’m playingsoccer this Saturday. Next (la proxima) week I’m going to San Jose. She is visitingher parents at weekend. You arecatchingthe bus in five hours (horas). They’re buying(comprar) a new car this weekend. He’s takinga quiz in the afternoom. Como puedes ver las acciones anteriores no están ocurriendo ahora mismo,sino que van a ocurrir dentro de poco, en un futuro. Por esta razón las anteriores frases deben traducirsede esta forma. Es martes y yo voy a jugar futbol este sábado. (incorrecto = y yo estoy jugando futbol…….) La próxima semana yo voy para San José. Ella va a visitar a sus padres el fin desemana. Tú vas a tomar el bus in cinco horas. Ellos van a comprar un carro nuevo este fin de semana. Él va a tomar (hacer) una prueba (examen) por la tarde. 9. Write in the brackets the correct meaning of each sentence. Present continuous (p c) or future meaning (f m) a) I’m visitingmy brother next week. ( ) b) Claudia ishavingbreakfastnow.( ) c) My friends are going to Bogotá in the in the evening. ( ) d) They’re leaving(dejar,salir) on Friday.( ) e) My mother is doingthe shopping.( ) f) He is takingthe bus.( ) g) The nurse is not wearingthe uniform. ( ) h) Next week I’m working6 to 4. ( ) i) Charlieand I aremeeting at 10 o’clock this evening. ( ) j) We’re havinga party on Saturday.( ) k) Is Ann havinga barbecue this weekend? ( ) Dance = dancing;take = taking; make = making; have = having;smoke = smoking; live= living
- 3. 10. Answer the question accordingto the pictures. Use the followingverbs:Fish,run,eat, hold,dance, ride. 11. Answer each question accordingto the pictures. 12. What type of person areyou? Do the quizto find out (encontrar) the answer. Choose (escojer) B, A or C. 1. A classmateis havinga party on Saturday.What are you going to do? a) You aregoing to stay in.(at home) there is a great (genial) filmon TV. b) You aregoing to go, but you’re not crazy about the idea. c) You aredefinitely going to go. You can’t wait. 2. You aregoing to a wedding (boda), and you don’t know (conocer) many people. How do you feel? (sentirse) a) Horrible.You really don’t want to go. b) A bitnervous, but you are goingto try (tartar) to be sociable. c) Great, you love meeting new people. 3. Your parents aregoing away (salir) this weekend. What areyou goingto do? a) You aregoing to rent DVD´s and relax athome. b) You aregoing to invite a few (pocos) close (cercanos) friends.You are havinga barbecue. c) You aregoing dancingwith friends. 4. Your friend calls(llamar) to inviteyou out for a coffee. What areyou goingto do? a) You arenot moving. (moverse, mudarse,) You really don’t want to go out. b) You areinvitingyour friend to come (venir) home. You can have a coffee at home. c) You aregoing to go. The night is young (joven). Tus puntos. Si la mayoría fue A significaqueeres un poco apático a las amistades.Comparte tus momentos en compañía. Si la mayoría fue B, quiere decir que eres amigabley popular, pero a veces solo quieres estar en casa.Bien por ti, no siempre tienes que salir para divertirte.Si la mayoría fue C eres el alma de la fiesta y el mejor amigo de todos. Solo se un poco cuidadoso en no sobre excederte. Por qué no relajarseen casa por un rato. 13. Read the followinge-mail from Sandra to her friend Santiago.Then answer the questions bellow. Hi Santiago! Great to hear from you. Guess what (adivina que) I have a summer job.I’m workingat Magic World.It’s a park in Bogota. It’s amazing! In the morning, I usually greet(saludar) visitorsatthe main (principal) entrance.I answer their questions, show(mostrar) them where to buy (comprar) their tickets and give (dar) them a map of the park.In the afternoon, I help in one of the gift (regalo) shops insidethe park.We are always busy,so I get very tired. a) What does Sandra do in the morning? ___________________________________________ b) Does she show where to buy tickets? ___________________________________________ c) What does she do in the afternoon? ___________________________________________ d) Is shealways busy? ___________________________________________ e) Would you liketo work in a park? ___________________________________________ He is eating
- 4. f) Where would you liketo work? ________________________________________ g) What would you liketo do? _________________________________________ h) When would you liketo work? In the morning, in the afternoon or in the evening? ________________________________________ Estudiado un poco el presente progresivo tanto para describir situaciones queestén pasando ahora como también describir situaciones quevan a ocurrir en el futuro, seguimos ahora a estudiar el going to que también se utiliza para expresar futuro. Estudia los siguientes casos. a) She is going to go to Canada next year. b) I am going to be (ser) a lawyer. c) My father is going to study German. d) They are going to work for a new company. e) We aregoing to buy a car. f) You aregoing to finish school. Como puedes ver todas las frases anteriores expresan una idea de futuro. Todas ellas utilizan el verbo (be = am, is are) dependiendo de la persona,y la expresión goingto; después de esta expresión siempre viene un verbo en infinitivo.Ahora bien la primera fraseseria:ella va a ir a Canadá el próximo año. 14. Traduce al español lasanteriores frases. a) ________________________________________ b) ________________________________________ c) ________________________________________ d) ________________________________________ e) ________________________________________ f) ________________________________________ 15. Organizethe phrases. a) Is/to/she/going/play/basketball _______________________________________ b) Work/we/to/going/are/year/next _______________________________________ c) Going/I/study/French/am/to _______________________________________ d) a/are/watch/movie/they/going/to _______________________________________ e) you/to/are/going/listen/music/to _______________________________________ f) to/going/he/take/is/an exam _______________________________________ 16. Translateto English. a. Yo voy a trabajar in Bogotá el próximo año. _________________________________________ b. Nosotros vamos a ver tv esta noche. _________________________________________ c. Él va a jugar futbol este fin de semana. _________________________________________ d. Yo voy a estudiar a la biblioteca mañana. _________________________________________ e. Ella va a pintar la casa el próximo mes. _________________________________________ f. Mi hermano va a estudiar en San José este año. _________________________________________ g. Ellos van a estar en Londres en un año. _________________________________________ Para hacer una pregunta utilizando goingto basta con colocar am, is,are al comienzo de la fraseal igual queen el presente progresivo y se responde también igual. For example: Are they going to play tennis? Yes, they are/ No, they are not. 17. Make question and answer them. a) She is goingto visitParisnextyear. ______________________________?______________ b) Camilo is goingto work in Russia in two years. ____________________________________?________ c) I’m going to buy a house near the sea. ___________________________________?_________ d) My father is goingto paint(pintar) the house. _______________________________________?_____ e) Christineand Carolinearegoingto rent a flat. _______________________________________?_____ f) He is goingto have a barbecue on Saturday. ______________________________________?______ g) We aregoing to go to Villao nextweek. ___________________________________?_________ Ya conoces entonces como se forma el presente simple(I seldom visitmy parents on saturday) y dos maneras de formar o hablar en futuro (I am visitingmy parents on Saturday) (I am going to visitmy parents on Saturday). Para terminar con este tema solo falta explicarel uso de (will) quees un auxiliar para construir el futuro también. Solo secoloca después del pronombre o sujeto, mira. I will work in Bogotá in four years. (Yo trabajaréen Bogotá en cuatro años) In the future she will be rich. (En el futuro ella será rica) In the future, people will usesmarter phone. (En el futuro, las personas usaran teléfonos más inteligentes) They will study English. (Ellos estudiaran ingles) We will notwork in five years. (Nosotros no trabajaremos en cinco años) 18. Translateto English. a) Yo iréa San José en tres semanas. _______________________________________ b) Ella visitaráItaliaen cinco años. _______________________________________ c) En el futuro no usaremos carros. _______________________________________ d) Ellos estudiaran en Londres este año. _______________________________________ e) Mi hermano ganará un carro en la lotería. _______________________________________ Ahora para hacer una pregunta solo secoloca will al principio de la fraseu oración.Mira cómo se pregunta y se responde. Will you studyinBogotá? Yes, I will/No, I will not (won’t) Will your mother go to Paris? Yes, she will/No, she won’t Will theydo the shopping? Yes, theywill/No theywon´t
- 5. 19. Organizeso that you can make questions. a) You/go/to/Cartagena/will ________________________________________? b) I/study/French/will/in fiveyears ________________________________________? c) Will/be/they/rich ________________________________________? d) We/work/company/will/in/a ________________________________________? e) My father/will/shopping/do/the ________________________________________? f) Next/he/year/will/buy/a car ________________________________________? 20. Answer the questions above. a) ________________________________ b) ________________________________ c) ________________________________ d) ________________________________ e) ________________________________ f) ________________________________ 21. Find the followingexpression. S N D G G A U N I O L B E N E X T B W E E K O G K E A X A N C V B X J A A S D T H I S A S A T U R D A Y D S A G O I N G G T O S D W Y E R R R T M F D D F S E E W T E H D O D G F W H J A I D A M G N S S E E E R A H Y E H T K I G J K K E E W F S I H T L K A I D I N F T W O E Y E A R S N E X T J Y E A R H I E U 22. Find the followingverbs.Then make sentences in future tense with each verb. a) ___________________________________________ b) ___________________________________________ c) ___________________________________________ d) ___________________________________________ e) ___________________________________________ f) ___________________________________________ g) ___________________________________________ h) ___________________________________________ i) ___________________________________________ j) ___________________________________________ k) ___________________________________________ l) ___________________________________________ m) ___________________________________________ n) ___________________________________________ 23. Here are some activities peopledo at weekend. Match column A with column B A B Going Relaxing Going Cooking Renting Going Visiting Eating Having Going For friends Camping DVD’s At home Out Dancing A barbecue relatives To the cinema Swimming 24. Now complete accordingto the exerciseabove. a) I´m __going__ swimmingthis weekend. b) She´s ____________ a barbecue next week. c) We’re ____________ DVD’s on Saturday. d) They’re ___________ campingthis Sunday. e) My brother is __________ at home at weekend. f) I’m ____________ to the cinema next Friday. g) She’s ___________ dancingwith some friends. h) We’re ____________ out in a new restaurant tonight. i) You’re ____________ relatives on Thursday. j) Jim is ____________ for his friends tonight. 25. Here are some activities thatwe usually do.Put them accordingto the table. Indoors activities Outdoors activities Watching TV Going to the park A C D F A S D F A S D F F F E O H G O F S E C F E B V G R O H I G G A K V I S I T K T K D U J V S I D N L K O J E E N E T S I L S I J J I H E F C U G X A A A S M H U K D B D S T U D Y D H P L A Y F U H U K R O W S D N Z E H H Y H Y J Y I U O U I B S G R E T Y E T Y E G D O G A K G T A K E S D F C O M E D H S D F G F S F G Y E T F E J G D H W A T C H Y Y E E S K E S A C V B G U I U O E E B Next year, next week, next month, this Saturday, this week, in two years,going to, I am, she is,he is, they are, we are Study, work, buy, play,cook, take, visit,come, go, be, watch, listen,finish,like,do, Going to the park, watchingTV, go shopping, walkingthe dog, going to the cinema,visiting relatives,goingsightseeing,going to the beach, cookingfor friends,go dancing,watchinga movie, visitingfriends,
- 6. 26. Read the followingarticle.Then do the points below. a) Listas many words as possiblerelated to school. b) Write true (t) or false(f) accordingto the text. a) Students go to school every day. ( ) b) Teachers visitstudents every week. ( ) c) School don´t give students the books.( ) d) Parents don´t help students. ( ) e) Schools arenear homes. ( ) f) The bus takes the students to school.( ) g) Students don´t send emails to teachers ( ) c) Answer the questions below. a) Would you liketo study in a school likethis? ____________________________________ b) Is your school far from your home? ____________________________________ c) Do you go to school every day? ____________________________________ d) Do you send email? ____________________________________ e) Do your parents help you with homework? ____________________________________ d) Make a sentence with the followingwords. a) Away from: myhouse is away from SanJosé. _________________________ b) Live: _______________________________ ___________________________________ c) Often: ______________________________ ____________________________________ d) Many children:_______________________ ____________________________________ e) Different: ___________________________ ____________________________________ f) It is:________________________________ ____________________________________ g) Because: ____________________________ ____________________________________ h) Students: ___________________________ ____________________________________ i) Have to: ____________________________ ___________________________________ j) With: ______________________________ ____________________________________ k) Each: _______________________________ ____________________________________ l) About: ______________________________ ____________________________________ m) Also: _______________________________ ____________________________________ n) Send: ______________________________ ____________________________________ o) Prepare: ____________________________ ____________________________________ p) Help: _______________________________ ____________________________________ q) Visit:_______________________________ ____________________________________ Name: ______________________________ Date: _____________- Grade: ___________