The first unit of study for the year is called
The food here is great!
We learn restaurant vocabulary like waiter, waitress, uniform, menu, customer, bottle of water, cup of coffee, glass of milk, bowl of soup, and plate of salad.
We also talk about the present simple and present continuous tense.
The present simple is used for things that you do many times or all the time, while the present continuous is used for things you are doing at the time of speaking.
ex. They usually wear blue uniforms, but today they are wearing white uniforms.
Present simple and present continuous
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Extra work (advanced): Think... Is it a routine (present simple) or is it happening today / now (present continuous) ....?
Copy the completed exercise into your notebook. Check the spelling and hand your work in.
Complete the text with the correct form of the present
simple or present continuous.
We usually (1) …………………… (have) a test on Mondays. It (2) …………………… (not be) my
At the moment we (5) …………………… (wait) for the bus by the school gates. The teacher
favourite way to start the week! Today is different. We (3) …………………… (not have)
lessons at school because we (4) …………………… (go) on a school trip.
At the moment we (5) …………………… (wait) for the bus by the school gates. The teacher
(6) …………………… (count) the students (for the third time this morning!). Jaime (7)
…………………… (hide) behind me. The teacher (8) …………………… (look) at a list of names and
now she (9) …………………… (make) a phone call. Who (10) …………………… she ……………………
(phone)? Oh no! It’s Jaime’s parents!