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so now we're talking about the present continuous tense so in the lesson one I
talked about the present simple the base tense and when we use that five ways we
can use that now we're talking about the continuous what is the continuous this
is when we put verb + ing in the sentence I'm staying at a friend's place
at the moment I'm staying I'm staying I am staying so verb ing is staying
we put ing after the base verb and this is called continuous or progressive
alright but let's talk about let's talk about three important and common ways
that we use this tense there's quite different to present simple let's go we
use present continuous when we talk about something that is temporary
temporary what do I mean by temporary so this is when you have an arrangement you
have something that you're doing and it's just for a short time it's not
forever it's for a short time maybe one week maybe three months maybe one year
it doesn't matter but it's it's not forever
so we use the present continuous for something that is temporary for example
as I said before I am staying at my friend's place at the moment we often
put at the moment at the end to signify or indicate that it's just temporary
it's just temporary it's not forever so let's look at the structure I'm staying
I am contracted I'm I'm staying at my friend's place so with the present
continuous we have the subject let's have a look at it here we have the
subject we have the to be verb it's very important in this tense we use the to be
verb so the to be verb can be is he is it can be am I am it can be ah you are
right so you have to decide depending on the subject which one to use so in this
case it i am i'm i'm and then verb ing staying always verb ing and then of
course you can have an object another noun or thing afterwards so I'm staying
at my friend's place at the moment we often put the time phrase at the end at
the moment or now or this week this month now the important part to practice
is the other forms the negative form can you make the negative for this so
positive I'm staying at my friend's place
negative yeah I'm not I am not staying at my friend's place how about the third
person well let's let's start with you you are staying at your friend's place
negative you are not or you aren't you aren't staying at your friend's place
and the third person he is staying in his friends place or he's staying at his
friend's place negative he isn't that's right he isn't
staying at his friend's place he is not isn't he's not isn't all right let's
make a question a yes/no question I'm staying at my friend's place but you
want to ask me about this maybe you you don't know and you want to ask so let's
start with the yes/no you remember the yes/no question is a simple direct
question and it begins with the auxiliary verb so in present continuous
it's not do you staying it's are you are you are you staying at
your friend's place and the answer yes I am remember we usually we have to repeat
the auxiliary verb in the answer yes I am or no I'm not yes you are no you're
not or yes he is no he isn't what she isn't she is and
the other important question open question so you can have more
conversation let's make an open question we want to know the place I'm staying so
if you want to know the place what can you ask me where where are you staying
at the moment where are you staying how about the person maybe you want to
know the person I'm staying with who who are you staying we have to say with who
are you staying with okay so of course we can say when and what but it's not
appropriate in this situation isn't okay so that's that's
number one that's one way that we very common way we use the present continuous
to talk about some temporary arrangement or something that's happening now for a
short time let's go to number two we also of course use the present
continuous for the very basic obvious one which is something that is happening
right now but it's continuing it's continuing right now for example oh look
she's she's running across the road she's running across the road she is
she's running across the road so it's happening now
you don't say she runs across the road she runs across the road every day every
week she runs in the park every week this is her habit so check out my video
on present simple when I talk about habits using the prison simple but if
it's happening now she's running she's running across the road alright so I
won't make you do the negative and question but think about the negative
and think about the two questions you can write them down for practice always
think about the bet the positive the negative and the two questions and if
you have these this is a good basis for your English grammar okay and the other
situation number three I want to talk about is the future so we can actually
use the present continuous for the future some people don't know this they
don't realize this when you talk about something that is happening in the near
future it's not too far in the future it's it's quite close to now and it's
usually your personal arrangements when you talk with your friends about your
your plans for the week or the weekend or your holidays we use the present
continuous for example I'm having lunch with my friend tomorrow
I'm having lunch with my friend tomorrow so this is very common
we don't usually say I'm going to have lunch with my friend tomorrow you can
use going to for a plan that you have but it's more common to say I'm having
lunch when it's personal with your friends I'm having lunch with my friend
tomorrow and we don't say I will have lunch that's you know that's a different
situation we're going to look at that in another video so I'm having lunch with
my friend tomorrow or she's meeting her friend for lunch she is she's meeting
her friend for lunch I'm seeing a movie tonight with my friend my brother and I
are catching up on the weekend what are you doing tomorrow would you like to
have a coffee what are you doing tomorrow this is a very common question
in social English what are you doing on the weekend I'm catching up with some
friends sorry I'm busy I'm catching up with some friends okay so there you have
three of the most common ways to use present continuous in English practice
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