Present Simple vs. Present Continuous

WATCHthe video carefully. THINKabout the differences between these two tenses. CHOOSE the best option: Simple or Continuous?Mark usually _ home on foot. go is going goes Listen! Mark _ the piano. play is playing plays My mother is a good cook. Everything she _ is excellent. cooks is cooking cook They often _ TV in the evening. watches are watching watch The dog _ under the table right now. sleep sleeps are sleeping is sleeping USEthe verbs in brackets in Present Simple or Continuous. In negative sentences use contracted (short) verb forms. Mr. Watson takes very good photos. (take)Look! He is taking a photo of you right now. (take)Tom usually plays football. (play)But today he is playing tennis.(play)Where does Sally usually spend her summer holidays? (spend)Jason doesn't listen to the radio very often. (not / listen)Bob and Karen’s parents usually drive them to school (drive), but today they are going by bus. (go)I always eat (eat) sandwich for breakfast, but this week I am eating (eat) an apple in stead. WHAT ARE THEY DOING?Write at least 10 sentences about the people in the picture. WRITEyour sentences about the picture above. SORTout the time expressions: Present Simple or Continuous? Present Continuous now at the moment at present these days "Listen!" "Look!" right now today this morning tonight Present Simple usually sometimes every day on a regular basis never always on Sundays from time to time twice a week once a year COMPLETEthe postcard with the correct form of the verbs in brackets: Present Simple or Continuous? Greetings from Iceland!I am havinga wonderful time. At the moment I am sittingin a restaurant called the TIME. Tom is with me and we are havinga cup of coffee. The view from here is magnificent. We are staying at a very pleasant hotel though it is rather expensive. Every morning I get upearly and go swimmingin an open-air pool. Fred doesn't comewith me. He doesn't likegetting up early. He sayshe is on holiday. We gosight-seeing every day. Iceland is a wonderful country.See you soon, Sally EXPLAIN the difference between sentences A and B in each pair. If you need help. USE your book, page 5 and LEARN THIS box.You can RECORD your answer or you can WRITE it DOWN. 1 a) I am doing my homework after school. b) I do my homework after school.2 a) Joe is learning to drive. b) Many teenagers learn to drive when they are seventeen.3 a) Mark plays the guitar. b) Mark is playing the guitar.4 a) We are not going on holidays in August. b) We do not go on holidays in August. HOMEWORK: Grammar Builder, page 122, Contrast: Present Simple and continuous, exercises 1-5 (exercises 2 and 3 - in your notebook).