Present C and Present S

questions

100

What do you usually do at weekends? Give 2 examples.

Any grammatically correct answer.

200

What are you doing this weekend? Give 2 examples.

Any grammatically correct answer using Present Continuous.

300

What are you doing on Saturday?

Any suitable answer using Present Continuous for a future arrangement.

400

Tell me 3 things about your weekends:

• one thing you usually do
• one thing you don't usually do
• one thing you're doing this weekend

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making questions

100

Answer: I usually play football at weekends.

Question:

What do you usually do at weekends?

200

Answer: I'm meeting my friends on Saturday.

Question:

What are you doing on Saturday?

300

Answer: I usually go shopping with my sister.

Question:

Who do you usually go shopping with?

400

Answer: I usually stay at home because I like relaxing, but this Saturday I'm going skateboarding with my friends.

Task: Make two questions about the answer.

Possible answers:

Why do you usually stay at home?
What are you doing this Saturday?

correct the mistakes

100

I am usually play video games at weekends.

I usually play video games at weekends.

200

I is meeting my friends this Saturday.

I am meeting my friends this Saturday.

300

I am knowing what I'm doing this weekend.

I know what I'm doing this weekend.

Why?
Know is a stative verb.

400

I meet usually my friends on Saturday, but this Saturday I go shopping with my mum.

I usually meet my friends on Saturday, but this Saturday I'm going shopping with my mum.

Why?
The second action is a future arrangement, so we use Present Continuous.

right or wrong

100

I usually meet my friends at weekends.

RIGHT

200

I am usually meeting my friends at weekends.

WRONG

I usually meet my friends at weekends.

300

I'm playing tennis with my friend this Saturday.

RIGHT

Present Continuous = future arrangement.

400

My brother is always playing video games when I want to talk to him!

RIGHT

Here always + Present Continuous shows annoyance