1. How is Paco feeling today?

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Do you remember how the present simple and the present continuous tenses are formed?

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Present Simple 3rd person singular Present Continuous 3rd person singular
Bare infinitive
 Bare infinitive + -(e)s
 Verb to be + -ing
 is + -ing
I wear sunglasses in summer. Paco wears sunglasses in summer I am having a good time
 He is having a good time

Read the passage in Section one and make two lists of all the phrases and sentences in the Present Simple and the Present Continuous tenses.

Remember that to form questions and negative sentences in the present simple the verb to do (3rd person singular: does) is frequently used. However, it is not needed neither with the present continuous nor with any other tense apart from the past simple.

 

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The following sentences have been taken from the text in Section 1. Choose the correct positive, negative or interrogative forms.

1. He gets really excited whenever he has to travel by plane.

a. Does he gets really excited whenever he has to travel by plane?
b. Do he gets really excited whenever he has to travel by plane?
c. Does he get really excited whenever he has to travel by plane?



2. He is as nervous now as he was then.
a. He isn't as nervous now as he was then.
b. He not is as nervous now as he was then.
c. He doesn't is as nervous now as he was then.



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3. He prefers to travel by train, car or coach.
a. He don't prefers to travel by train, car or coach.
b. He doesn't prefers to travel by train, car or coach.
c. He doesn't prefer to travel by train, car or coach.



4. The man is wearing a grey suit.
a. Does the man wearing a grey suit?
b. Is the man wearing a grey suit?
c. Does the man be wearing a grey suit?



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As we have seen, Paco gets very excited when he has to fly. So, at this very moment he feels very nervous. At the same time, however, he is very happy because he is on the point of landing at OR Tambo International Airtport in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Feelings are frequently expressed by means of adjectives. Apart from the ones used in the text, there are plenty of adjectives in English to express how you feel. Click here if you want to get a poster showing emotions or feelings. And by clicking here you'll find a list of adjectives to begin working on how people can express emotions.


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OR Tambo International Airport

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This airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, is also known as Johannesburg International Airport. It was founded in 1952 as Jan Smuts International Airport. It is considered to be the most important airport in South Africa, catering for more than 17 million passengers each year. It became known as Johannesburg International Airport after the reformed national government implemented a national policy of not naming airports after politicians in 1994. Nevertheless, that policy was reversed later and the airport was renamed again in 2006 after the first president of the African National Congress, Oliver Reginald Tambo.

Now we have briefly remembered the form of the Present Simple and the Present Continuous it's time to go to next section. In Topic 2 we will work harder on those tenses, paying attention to the main uses. Now, let's remember the main differences between the Present Simple and the Past Simple tenses and have a look at something interesting about adjectives. Come on, go to next section!
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