
The Basic Present
What is the difference in meaning between "what are you doing?" and "what do you do?" Take this basic present course to find out. This course teaches everything you need to know about the present simple and present continuous tenses.
Course Facts
- Level Elementary, Pre-Intermediate
- 8 hours of activities*
- 102 minutes of video content
- 57 downloadable resources
- 22 self-study activities
* When all activities are completed thoroughly with 10 minutes allocated to each self-study activity.
Course Objectives
- To understand the situations when the present simple and present continuous tenses are required
- To use the present simple and present continuous in the affirmative, negative, question and short response forms
- To recite the verbs to have and to be in the present simple tense
- To form the present participle of any verb
- To understand which auxiliary verb is required to form a question in the present simple tense
- To identify keywords that are used with the present simple and present continuous tenses and use them correctly
- To avoid common mistakes that learners make in the present simple and present continuous tenses
- To decide whether to use the present simple or the present continuous tense according to the content of a sentence
- To know there are three ways to pronounce third person singular verbs in the present simple tense and pronounce them correctly
- To know there are three ways to pronounce the present participle ending and understand which ones are correct and slang
- To use word stress and sentence stress to correctly pronounce verbs in the present continuous tense, both in the affirmative and in the negative
Course Features

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Course Content




Course Includes
- 10 Lessons
- 62 Topics
- 3 Quizzes
- Course Certificate
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