2015-05-19 Structure: present/progressive

Greg Malivuk
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What are the most common names in your country?

Gregory   Hartley    Malivuk
first     middle     last
personal             family
given                surname

Arabic: Gregory David Michael Malivuk
Russian: Gregory Davidovich Malivuk
Chinese or Korean: Malivuk Gregory
Spanish/Portuguese: Gregory _____ Malivuk Hartley (my middle name is my mother’s family name)
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Simple present:
I go home at 2:00. (This happens frequently.) he/she/it goes
I don’t read. (As a habit, I don’t read very much.) he/she/it doesn’t read
I don’t like Chinese food. (Always.) he/she/it doesn’t like
Do you eat breakfast. (usually) Does he/she/it eat
Yes, I do. No, I don’t.
What do you do? (= as a job) What does he/she/it do?

Present progressive: am/is/are + verb(ing)
We are learning English. (we are in the middle of it right now)
We aren’t eating in class.
Are we learning English?
Yes, we are. / No, we aren’t. No, we’re not.
What are you doing? (= right now in this moment)
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I have one niece now. I like Chinese food. I hate Polish food.
- these are NON-ACTION verbs, it’s not a process, it doesn’t require any time
- We never use non-action verbs in progressive.
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p. 6 - complete the conversation in exercise 2 with a partner
A 2 does...come (more common: Where is it from?)
  3 means
  4 do...do (answer about job -> question about job -> simple present)
  5 sell
  6 am working
  7 owns
  8 ‘re joking
  9 guess
  10 influence
B 1 ‘m trying
  2 Do...know
  3 mean
  4 calls
  5 always wins / is always winning (if in my mind it is constant, every time I look at him he is winning something, I can use present progressive)
C 1 hear
  2 are expecting (if we don’t say “a baby”, we still understand “you are expecting” to mean “you are pregnant”)
  3 are looking for
  4 do...think of
  5 sounds
  6 do...spell
D 1 wants
  2 smells
  3 don’t drink (as a habit) / am not drinking (temporarily)
  4 is boiling
  5 does...boil (as a rule / as a general fact)
  6 boils
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Homework: p. 7 exercise 3 (find 10 mistakes)