Welcome back and Happy New Year 2015

We started the year with a new unit. In this unit we study what it's called the Present Continuous. It is the form of the verb that we use when we talk about actions we are doing now, or today or at this moment. 

You can look at it on page 59 of your book, Lesson 12.

How do we make it?

We use the Present Simple of the verb to be and we add the verb + ing

Example:

I am                                            listening

You are                                      listening

He/She/It is                                listening

We are                                        listening

You are                                      listening

They are                                     listening

If we want to ask a question we must follow the usual order of words for questions in English:

Auxiliary + subject + verb...?

In this case the auxiliary is the verb to be, so we say:

Are you listening to me?

Are they listening to the music?

Am I drinking Coca-Cola?

Is she reading the book?

When the answer is negative we add not after the auxiliary and usually make the necessary contractions:

I am (I'm not) not listening to you.

They are not (aren't) listening to music.

You are not (aren't) drinking Coca-Cola.

She is not (isn't) reading a book.

After practicing the Present Continuous for a while we went back to Lesson 11, and practiced the Possessive in English, which we had already studied last term. We reviewed the names of family members.

HOMEWORK

Look at the picture on page 60 and write 5 sentences saying what people in the picture are doing.

Also, answer the Who questions. Only the ones that begin with Who.

After reading the passage Vicky's family, which we read in class ( it begins at the end of page 53), do the second exercise under WE PRACTICE, that is, write a sentence about each one of those people in the list. Example: Ben is Vicky's brother.

Also, complete the next exercise: fill in the gaps.

See you next Tuesday.