PRESENT CONTINUOUS

Present Continuous

for future arragements

We use the present continuous to refer to the future when we talk about plans and arrangements that have already been made.

• We are moving to London in June.
• We are going to the cinema at seven o'clock.
• Yusuf isn't flying to Cairo tomorrow morning.
• I'm not going out tonight.
• Aren't you playing tennis on Sunday?
• Are you going to Tom's today?

We don’t use the present continuous when we predict something. Instead, we use going to or will:

1. It’s going to rain again soon.
2. I don't think he'll come tonight.

For future actions or situations using the present continuous, all the common future time words and phrases can be used:

• today
• tonight
• this afternoon
• this evening
• this week
• tomorrow
• tomorrow morning
• tomorrow evening
• next week
• next month

• in five minutes
• in ... hours/days/weeks/months
• at six o'clock
• after school
• the day after tomorrow, etc.

Present continuous: form

I/you/we/they/she/he/it + am/are/is + the -ing form of the verb

I/you/we/they/she/he/it + am/are/is + not + the -ing form of the verb

Am/Are/Is + I/you/we/they/she/he/it + the -ing form of the verb ?

?+

Am/Are/Is + I/you/we/they/she/he/it + not + the -ing form of the verb ?

?-

Aren’t/Isn’t + I/you/ we/they/she/he/it + the -ing form of the verb ?

Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Write answers in your notebook.

1. She ... (study) at Tom's house this evening.
2. He ... (arrive ) at 8 o'clock.
3. I ... (do) a History exam in two days.
4. I ... (go not) to the cinema tonight.
5. ... you ... (play) tennis next week?
6. Yusuf ... (move) house in three days.
7. Sarah ... (play) volleyball after school.
8. ... she ... (spend) Sunday with her family?
9. They ... (cook not) tonight.
10. Tom ... (visit) his grandmother tomorrow.