Objective: The primary learning objective is the mastery of the Present Continuous tense (also known as Present Progressive). Students aim to understand how to describe actions happening at the present moment, temporary situations, changing states, and fixed future plans. The overarching goal is to enable students to communicate effectively about ongoing events and immediate developments in real-time contexts.

Contents and Methods: The worksheet follows a systematic pedagogical approach, transitioning from theoretical explanation to diverse practical exercises:

• Theoretical Foundation: Introduction to usage scenarios (current actions, near-future appointments, temporary habits, and changing situations) and the conjugation rule (be + verb-ing).
• Identification & Contextualization: Drag-and-drop tasks to match verbs to appropriate situational contexts.
• Verification: Multiple-choice questions to test the correct application of auxiliary verbs and present participles.
• Active Production: Fill-in-the-panels exercises requiring students to conjugate verbs independently from their infinitive forms.
• Syntactic Structure: Word ordering (sentence unscrambling) tasks to reinforce correct sentence construction and the placement of grammatical components.

Competencies:

• Grammatical Competence: Proficiency in correctly conjugating and applying the Present Continuous in various social and descriptive contexts.
• Functional Language Ability: Distinguishing between different temporal meanings (current vs. temporary vs. future) based on context clues and signal words.
• Syntactic Accuracy: Skill in organizing words into grammatically correct and meaningful sentence structures.
• Analytical Skills: The ability to identify and correct grammatical errors in verb forms and sentence patterns.

Target Audience and level:

English learners at A2 level