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Susan I'm on a refresher course and need to teach something to
my peers on the course. I'm thinking about teaching the present
continuous. Any ideas, suggestions, material on the best way I
could teach it. I don't want to just give them exercise after
exercise. I would like to have the students actively using it. -
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think it’s quite difficult to do extended activities to practise
the present continuous. The very nature of the tense means we
are talking about things happening now which makes conversation
limited. I find a lesson on the present continuous is often made
up of a variety of activities. One way to get around this is to
base the lesson on paintings and what is happening in them. What
are the people doing? What are they wearing? Where are they
sitting / standing? What are they saying to each other? Etc. You
could star