Present Simple vs Present Continuous

The Present Simple Tense. Настоящее простое время.

The Present Continuous

Tense

Настоящее длительное время.

Present Simple

1) Обозначает:

• Daily routine or habit ( регулярные, повседневные действия; привычки)
• Permanent state (постоянные состояния)

2) Формы глагола:

I, we, you, they + V (глагол)

He, she, it + Vs (глагол + s)

Present Simple

3) Вспомогательные глаголы :

I, we, you, they – do

He, she, it – does

4) Слова – подсказки:

Always, usually, sometimes, often, every: day/ year/week ,on Sundays

Present Continuous

1) Обозначает:

• Fixed arrangement in the near future (заранее запланированное действие в будущем)

2)

Action happening now ( действие происходящее в данный момент)

Present Continuous

2) Формула образования:

• Am, is, are + Ving
• I am ; he, she, it is ;
• we, you, they are

3) Слова – подсказки:

Look! Listen! Now, at the moment

To be (Am, is, are) + Ving

Present Simple vs Present Continuous

1) I run every day.

2) I'm running now.

• He reads every evening.
• He is reading at the moment.

This boy is a pupil.

• He goes to school every day.
• He is going to

school now.

• She usually writes poems.
• At the moment

she is writing a letter.