Students will gain confidence using the present continuous form through a variety of question and answer activities based on clothing. The present continuous (also called present progressive) is a verb form which is used to show that an ongoing action is happening either at the moment of speech or now in a larger sense.
What are they doing?
Overview
Daily life
Level
Elementary: A2Pre-Intermediate: A2+
Included
2 student pagesTeaching notes
Teaching time 60 mins
Language functions
Asking and answering questionsDescribing people, places, or things
Language forms
Continuous formsPresent tense
Activities
Gap fillMatchingQuestions and answersRewriting
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