Present Simple vs Present Progressive

Teaching points

• • Present simple:
• • routines and habits
• • facts and permanent states
• • schedules
• • Present progressive:
• • happening now
• • temporary situations
• • changing situations
• • repeated annoying behaviour with always
• • STEP traps:
• • stative verbs normally avoid progressive: know, believe, understand, own, belong.
• • "always" can appear with progressive to express irritation.

المضارع البسيط للعادات والحقائق والجداول. المضارع المستمر لما يحدث الآن أو مؤقتاً أو يتغير. بعض أفعال الحالة مثل know و believe لا تستخدم غالباً في المستمر. يمكن استخدام always مع المستمر للتعبير عن الانزعاج.

Practice

Answer the 3 questions, then check — أجب عن الأسئلة الثلاثة ثم تحقق

1. 1. Everyone in the office is frustrated because the new intern _____ meetings with unrelated questions. A. always interrupts B. is always interrupting C. has interrupted always D. always is interrupting
2. 2. This sauce _____ amazing tonight. A. is tasting B. tastes C. has tasted D. taste
3. 3. The train to Riyadh _____ at 6:30 tomorrow morning. A. is leaving always B. leave C. leaves D. has left