What Are You Doing? Present Continuous
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This lesson focuses on the present continuous for actions happening now. Keep the opening concrete by pointing to visible actions in the image and naming them with -ing forms.
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By the end of the lesson, students will be able to identify and use the Present Continuous tense (am/is/are + -ing) to describe actions in real time through an interactive song and practice.
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What are they doing?
Contrast briefly with routine actions if needed: 'She reads every day' is different from 'She is reading now.' Keep the focus on meaning before grammar labels.
Read or sing the lyrics with a steady rhythm. Stress the helping verb and the -ing ending so students hear the full pattern clearly.
dancing move your body to music
Singing
Jumping
Smiling
Laughing
Making musical sounds with your voice.
Making a happy expression with your mouth
Making sounds with your voice because something is funny
Moving up into the air using your legs
These are the key verbs for the lesson. Keep definitions very simple and concrete. Recycle them in present continuous examples orally.
Add -ing to the verb: dance, sing, jump, smile, laugh.
Say the ending clearly: /ɪŋ/
For example:
- Dance → Dancing dɑːnsɪŋ
-Sing → Singing ˈsɪŋɪŋ
- Smile → Smiling smaɪlɪŋ
-laugh → laughing ˈlæfɪŋ
Model the final sound in -ing clearly. You may point out one spelling change only if useful: 'run' becomes 'running'. Avoid overloading learners with too many spelling rules.
Using the Form
Present continuous sentences have two parts:
am / is / are
verb + -ing
Subject+ am/is/are+ Verb -ing
Examples:
I am singing.
He is jumping.
We are dancing.
This slide stands in place of the planned digital practice by showing the sentence pattern clearly. Keep examples short and connected to the vocabulary students have already seen.
Which sentence is in the present continuous?
He is dancing.
He reads daily.
He read yesterday.
He will read.
Checks the core idea from slides 2–3: present continuous describes an action happening now.
What is she doing?
She is smiling
She is dancing
She is laughing
She is Jumping
Targets the one spelling change explicitly taught on slide 5: run becomes running.
Which of the following sentences uses the present continuous correctly?
She are smile
Maria is dancing
She is laugh
Mario is Jumping
Targets the one spelling change explicitly taught on slide 5: run becomes running.
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