Unit 2. Page 6‐A - DeiseFreire/English GitHub Wiki

MURPHY, Raymond. English grammar in use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Unit 3 page 6-A.

• Compare:
• present continuous (I am doing).
• We use the continuous for things happening at or around the time of speaking.
• The action is not complete.

                       I am doing
past_____________________ now._____________________ future 

• The water is boiling. Be careful.
• Listen to those people. What language are they speaking?
• Let’s go out. It isn’t raining now.
• ‘I’m busy.’ ‘What are you doing?’
• I’m getting hungry. Let’s go and eat.
• Kate wants to work in Italy, so she’s learning Italian.
• The population of the world is increasing very fast.