What are they doing? How often do you ...?

Week 9^th – 11^th

This week we learnt the difference between present simple and present continuous.

We use present simple to talk about habits, customs, facts and routines. We use adverbs or expressions of frequency.

Remember the position of adverbs of frequency:

Before the main verb	Dani hardly ever does housework.	Jorge never goes to the dentist.	María usually does sport or exercise.
After the verb “to be”	Cristina is never at home in the morning.
In questions, after the subject.	Is Isabel often late for work?	Do you often buy flowers?
Expressions of frequency, at the end of the sentence.	Marilo goes to the hairdresser’s twice a year.	Cristian goes on holiday three times a year.	Alex sees his best friend every weekend.

We use present continuous to talk about actions happening at the moment of speaking or temporary situations.

I’m writing the report. (now)

She’s sharing a flat until she finds a house to rent.(temporary situation)

We described what the people are doing in our pictures so as to find the differences with our partner’s picture.

We talked about “how often” we do things.

We can also use the present continuous to talk about future arrangements. But, we'll see this use next week.

Bye for now!

Lisening exercise