@ PRESENT CONTINUOUS vs GOING TO... (explanation)

Slight differences between PRESENT CONTINUOUS and BE+going to+ INF :

1. PRESENT CONTINUOUS:

Action which is going to take place in a planned future (it comes from a decision already taken in the past, meetings, travels, parties, etc...)

Eg: Next Monday I am flying to Paris

2. "BE + going to...+ INF":

2.1. It is mainly used when we want to emphasize the speaker's wish to performe his/her intention)

Eg: This evening I am going to the see the match between Real Madrid and Barcelona (because I bought the tickets 10 days before)

2.2. We also use it to describe actions that will happen in a very close future because there are signs that shows the obvious fact.

Eg: The sky is very dark; it is going to rain

@Nighthawks: Boulevard of broken dreams

These days, using the present and the past times, we're analysing a famous painting of Gottfried Helnwein, its painter... can you recognize the four people on the painting? Are they famous? Are they still alive? Who is the man behind the counter? What's the woman wearing?


Clic on the different videos:


1. MARILYN
2. BOGART
3. J. DEAN
4. ELVIS

Now, let's work!

(1) Description of the project: "InvesticreA"

Proyecto 4º Ingles Gottfried Hellwein Definitivo by correoparaelcol7862 on Scribd

 

(2) Example of photoexhibition

This year (2014) we have completed our study with a photo exhibition based on Gottfried Helnwein, the hyperealistic author of the painting bellow and then, our students have also made a survey with 10 questions to a 2ºESO class in order to know their opinion:

"Study or Money?" (by Fran and J. Carlos)

"No freedom" (by Cabe and Oscar)

"Do you know me?" (by Raquel and Borja)

"No future" (by Patricia and Isabel)

"Grief" (by Alex and Ana)

Shame of others (by Laura and Yolanda)

(2) SURVEY ON GOOGLE DRIVE:

@ TIME IS GOLD, as British say.

Do you know what's the WTZ? and the GMT? What time is in London while people in Otawa are sleeping?

1. The current BIG-BEN time
2. A bit of its history
3. The world time zone
4. The sun clock

5. Exercise: Clic on "What time is in.....?" and try to find in "Search for City or Place" the time for the following locations: Beijin (China), Vancouver (Canada), Salvador de Bahía (Brazil), Istambul (Turkey), Antananarivo (Madagascar), Acapulco (Mexico), Pevek (Russia), Yellowknife (Canada), Mawson (Australia) and Palau (Indonesia).

@ PRESENT SIMPLE vs PRESENT CONTINUOUS

The definite exercises that will give the best results in your understanding of the difference between PRESENT SIMPLE and.... PRESENT CONTINUOUS!

6114040 Present Simple vs Present Continuous

@ PRESENT SIMPLE OR PRESENT CONTINUOUS? (3ºESO)

Dear students of 3ºESO:

Do the following exercices to clear your doubts up about the uses of the PRESENT SIMPLE vs PRESENT CONTINUOUS:

1) Choose the correct form for each verb.
2)Put the verb in brackets in the correct form
3) One more

@ The fashion show (1ºESO)

Welcome to our particular English fashion show to revise clothes vocabulary and the present continuous with the verb "to wear":
Click on the following web sites:

1. Present Continuous: ONE
2. Listening con la Seño: TWO
3. Soluciones del listening y práctica: THREE
4. Otro listening: FOUR
5. Game: FIVE

Present continuous: the 3 uses

Dear students of 2ºESO:
This is a new task for you about the uses of the "Present Continuous" and the "Present Simple". Here you have the instructions:

1. Go to ECLECTICENGLISH
2. Read the uses of the "Present Continuous"
3. Do all the exercices from 1 to 8.
4. Copy ex. 9 on your notebook and do it.

"Homer is singing"