EXPRESSING ON GOING ACTIVITIES

Chapter 5

EXPRESSING ON GOING ACTIVITIES

This activity can be done by individual or somebody else. They refer to what is going on at a time of observation guessing, talking and so on. This is PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE or 

 PROGRESSIVE ASPECT.

As a teacher, begins a lesson by taking giving students to the simple experiences they are going to have in the lesson. Because the lesson is mostly about ongoing activities, you can ask them to mention all activities that are being carried out at a particular moment in the class. Discuss with them on the answers they have provided and tell them that these are the ongoing activities they will learn today.

Students are then introduced to the meaning of the present continuous tense which is used to express ongoing activities. Present continuous tense expresses something or event which is happening now, and the activities that are going to happen in the near future. When the students understand the meaning, now they can be taken to another activity where they learn how this type of tense looks like in a sentence by reading various passages or dialogues.

- The verbs end with …ing

(i) Martha and Consolata are sweeping the floor

(ii) It is looking at you

(iii) They are eating rice

(iv) You are playing nicely

- When you go to school in the morning there are a lot of activities going on, you will see

(i) Some students sweeping the compound

(ii) Some students watering the flowers

(iii) Some students parading

(iv) Some teachers shouting to the students

(v) Parents paying fees.

Extra verbs

Flowering, watering, chasing, snoring, reading, shouting, waiting, glorying, drinking, ringing, banking, blowing, cutting, shrinking .

Note: present continuous tense He She is It

I am + verb ...............ing

They We are You