Be + -ing Basics
Complete: My friends ______ (play) basketball in the park right now
are playing
Write: lie → ______
✅ lying
Make negative: They are having lunch.
✅ They are not having lunch / aren’t having lunch
Make a question: She is writing an email.
✅ Is she writing an email?
Choose: She usually ______ (drink / is drinking) coffee in the morning.
✅ drinks
Choose the correct sentence:
a) She is cook dinner.
b) She is cooking dinner.
b
Write: get → ______
✅ getting
Correct: She not is studying.
✅ She is not studying
Complete: ______ they ______ (study) for the test?
✅ Are they studying
Choose: Look! The baby ______ (cry / is crying).
✅ is crying
Correct the mistake: We is studying English.
✅ We are studying English
Write: write → ______
✅ writing
Complete: We ______ (not / do) our homework right now.
✅ are not doing
Correct: You are watching TV?
✅ Are you watching TV?
Choose: We ______ (go / are going) to school every day.
✅ go
Complete: I ______ (not / watch) TV at the moment.
✅ am not watching
Write: travel → ______ (accept both forms)
✅ traveling / travelling
Make negative: I am listening to music.
✅ I am not listening to music
Make a question: He is running in the park.
✅ Is he running in the park?
Choose: Listen! Someone ______ (sing / is singing).
✅ is singing
Unscramble: are / they / what / doing
✅ What are they doing?
Write: begin → ______
✅ beginning
Correct: He isn’t plays football.
✅ He isn’t playing football
Answer the question: Are you doing your homework? (short answer YES)
✅ Yes, I am.
Choose: He ______ (plays / is playing) soccer right now.
✅ is playing