Anh Thư is reading a comic book Quý Thiện is drinking water USE: We use the Present Progressive Tense to talk about:  Things that are happening at the moment of speaking  E.g.: 1- The students of class 6a5 are studying English at the moment 2- Look! It is raining outside Things that are in the process of changing or developing this week, this month or this year E.g.: 1- Susan is writing another book this year 2- He is taking more exercise these days FORM: Affirmative: Subject + Be + Verb-ING +… Gia Hưng is studying Literature Negative: Subject + Be + NOT + Verb-ING +… They are playing in the schoolyard They are not studying Interrogative: Be+ Subject + Verb-ING + … ? Are the students singing on the stage? SPELLING OF -ING -Verbs with consonants add –ING *E.g.: Start  Starting Fold  Folding -Verbs ending in e  drop e, add –ING *E.g.: make making write  writing -Verbs ending ie  change ie into y, add –ING *E.g.: lie  lying tie  tying -Verbs ending in y  just add -ING *E.g.: Stay  Staying Say  Saying -Verbs ending with one vowel and one consonant 1- One-syllable verbs: vowel  consonants E.g.: Sit  Sitting vowels  consonant E.g.: Rain  Raining 2- Two-syllable verbs : 1st syllable- stressed consonant E.g.: Listen  listening 2nd syllable-stressed  consonants E.g.: Begin  beginning APPLYING Play A Game Study this picture for minutes TEN-MINUTE TEST ...Anh Thư is reading a comic book Quý Thiện is drinking water USE: We use the Present Progressive Tense to talk about:  Things that are happening at the moment of speaking  E.g.: 1- The