Objectives:
1. To ask and answer with the interrogative form of the present continuous tense
2. To use before to express time order
Observe
Are you familiar with these examples? We have learnt all of them in this module.
1. Are you getting ready for Spring Festival?
2. What’s your mother doing?
3. She’s cleaning the house.
4. I’m eating jiaozi.
5. My mother’s cleaning our house and sweeping away bad luck.
6. What’s Li Shan’s mother doing?
7. Is Lingling’s aunt cooking the meal?
8. What are Daming and Betty doing?
9. They’re learning a dragon dance with my grandpa.
10. Are they getting ready for Spring Festival?
11. Who is working?
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Grammar
现在进行时 II
现在进行时的特殊疑问句结构为:
“疑问词+ be +主语+doing...?” 例如:
We are making lanterns under the tree.
(就划线部分提问) →
1. Who are making lanterns under the tree?
2. What are you doing under the tree?
3. Where are you making lanterns?
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一般现在时与现在进行时的对比
什么情况下用一般现在时呢?
1. 表示现在的状态:
He’s twelve.
She’s at work.
2. 表经常或习惯性的动作:
I get up at 6:30 every day.
He reads English every morning.
3. 表主语具备的性格和能力等:
She likes noodles.
They speak French.
4. 普遍真理、自然规律和客观事实:
Two plus four is six.
The moon goes around the earth.
Birds fly.
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什么情况下用现在进行时呢?
1.表示说话时正在发生或者进行的动作。
We are preparing for Spring Festival.
I am writing a letter.
We are enjoying our trip.
2. 表现阶段正在进行的动作,但是说话那一刻不一定在做。
He is building his own house.
David is teaching English and learning Chinese in Beijing.
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对比一般现在时和现在进行时:
一般现在时
be (am/ is/ are)
行为动词是动词原形或单三形式
表示习惯性或经常性的行为
always, often, usually, sometimes, usually, never…
现在进行时
be (am, is / are) + V-ing
表正在进行的行为
now, at the moment, look, listen…
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1 Work in pairs.
Student A: Choose a picture. Say what the people are doing.
Student B: Guess which picture Student A is describing.
A: They are watching TV.
B: Is it Picture 4?
A: Yes, it is./ No, it isn’t.
2 Write questions and short answers.
Lingling’s mother / learning a lion dance?
— Is Lingling’s mother learning a lion dance?
— No, she isn’t.
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Possible answers:
1. — What are the father and daughter doing?
— They’re cooking.
2. — What’s the grandma doing?
— She is making red lanterns.
3. — What are the mother and son doing?
— They’re using the computer.
4. — What are the family doing?
— They’re watching TV.
5. — What are they doing?
— They’re doing/ learning a lion dance.
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Module task:
Writing a letter about Spring Festival to a foreign student
Step 1: Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions about what you and your family are doing for Spring Festival at the moment.
— What are you and your family doing for Spring Festival at the moment?
— My mother is cooking.
Step 2: Write notes about your Spring Festival. Use the headings to help you.
* Getting ready * Food
* Presents * Traditions
Step 3: Write a letter to a friend saying:
1 What you’re doing for the Spring Festival at the moment.
2 What you usually do.
Use your notes in Activities 6 and 7.
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Summary
1. 现在进行时的形式:
一般疑问句:
— Is/Am/Are + 主语+ V-ing…?
— Yes, 主语+is/am/are.
/ No, 主语+isn’t/ am not/ aren’t.
特殊疑问句:
What+ is/am/are+主语+doing?
2. 一般现在时 表示习惯性或经常性的行为
现在进行时 表示正在进行的行为
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Ⅰ. 用方框中所给词的正确形式填空。
tell because of visit make lanterns give
1. Who ______ presents to children on Christmas Day?
2. —What is Tom doing?
—He is _______ me a funny story.
3. That boy can’t go to school _________ his illness (疾病).
4. My grandfather always __________ before Spring Festival.
5. At Spring Festival, we often _______ our friends.
Ⅱ. 用所给动词的正确形式完成句子。
1. Kevin _________ (send) emails to his friends now.
2. Lisa _________ (have) her IT lesson at this moment.
3. Meimei _________ (eat) food with her family now.
4. Paul and Jim __________ (shop) for clothes now.
5. Look! The little cat _________ (sleep) under the tree.
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Homework
1. Review the use of the interrogative form of the present continuous tense.
2. Finish the exercises in Learning English.
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