Question

Analyze the following verb tense definitions.



1) Simple Present: used to talk about facts, habits and routines.

2) Present Continuous: used to talk about actions in progress, activities that are happening now.



Write (1) before the verb tenses that are in the Simple Present and (2) before those verb tenses that are in the Present Continuous.



Nowadays, teenagers have changed in comparison with the teens in the past, taking into account eating habits, an active way of life, spending free time and clothes. They are a “technology” generation. For teens in todays’ world mobile phones, internet, music, movies, television and video games are very important.

Most teenagers ( ) are watching TV and playing computer games. They ( ) are not reading books. They ( ) don’t like reading because watching TV is easier and they ( ) don’t have to use their own imagination. Computer games ( ) teach but they are also harmful to health. Teenagers ( ) are spending free time in front of a computer rather than walking, playing football or going to a swimming pool. Moreover, games ( ) transfer them into the world which ( ) doesn’t exist.

a) Which sentences express FACTS?


b) Which sentences express ACTIONS that are happening NOW?

Answer 1

Most teenagers (2) are watching TV and playing computer games. They (2) are not reading books. They (1) don’t like reading because watching TV is easier and they (1) don’t have to use their own imagination. Computer games (1) teach but they are also harmful to health. Teenagers (2) are spending free time in front of a computer rather than walking, playing football or going to a swimming pool. Moreover, games (1) transfer them into the world which (1) doesn’t exist.

a.

• They are a “technology” generation.
• For teens in todays’ world mobile phones, internet, music, movies, television and video games are very important.
• They don’t like reading because watching TV is easier and they don’t have to use their own imagination.
• Computer games teach but they are also harmful to health.
• Moreover, games transfer them into the world which doesn’t exist.

b.

• Most teenagers are watching TV and playing computer games.
• They are not reading books.
• Teenagers are spending free time in front of a computer rather than walking, playing football or going to a swimming pool.