Revista de inglés

Present Progressive Wilmer Fabian Ibañez Cruz Jonathan Rodriguez Diaz Cod: 1002300406 Cod: 1072495870 Group 40 Teacher: Mary Elen Niño Molina 2016 II

Introduction This magazine develops information about the present progressive.

You are going to see interesting information and also different ways to learn English language about topics, explanations, examples, pictures, games and some more. The Whole information will help you to get new knowledge. everything will be in an interactive way to get you involved into this. We consider this is a quite right method to learn any language because it is funny and makes you think in an easily way. This magazine also helps you to improve your English level, to develop skills and to live English in a meaningful way.

Main objective The main objective of this magazine is teach to students of fifth grade different kinds of topics about the English language, for that goal we use several tools like games, pictures, examples, mind maps and some more. We did this magazine with an only objective, make our classes more interesting for the students, so they can learn easily all this English topics but also they got fun in the process.

The idea to make a magazine was for try a different way to teach the English language to students, one in which all they get knowledge by means of different and interactive ways.

Table of Contents -Chapter 1 .What is Present progressive ? .What it’s the difference between Present progressive in English and Present progressive in Spanish ? .Mind Map. -Chapter 2 .What is going to and Will ? .Going to vs Will. .Mind map.

-Chapter 3 .What are prepositions ? .Different kind of propositions .Mind map. .Bibliography. .Thanks.

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Biography

I’m Wilmer Fabian Ibañez, I’m 19 years old and i’m studying English degree at the Gran Colombia university. I am learning this language, all the time i’m trying to get new knowledge about English and i really enjoy do any kind of activity associated with with English. I work in logistics at the malls, i love music, i really like play the guitar, write songs and poetry, i enjoy do exercise. When i was creating the magazine i learned a lot of new things while i was searching information about this topic, so i think that all this knowledge that i got was helpful for the project for my future profession as a teacher.

Biography

I’m Jonathan Rodriguez Diaz, I’m 22 years old and i’m studying English degree at the Gran Colombia university. I am learning this language because i think that is really important know not only know one language on your life, i practice enough as i have time and i like get new knowledge about English. I work in a textile printing factory, i love read philosophy books , watch horror movies i really like play tennis on my holidays and i enjoy do swimming. When i was creating this magazine i learned several new knowledge while i was investigate, so i think that this was really good for design our project.

Chapter 1 In this chapter you can see the meaning of the present progressive and what is the difference between present progressive in English and present progressive in Spanish.

You will find different explanations with examples, some kind of activities and one mind map.

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What is present progressive ?

The present progressive is the combination between the verb “to be� and the present participle, present participle is only the (ing) form of a verb

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Present progressive in English and Spanish In English present progressive can be used to describe what is happen now or what will be happen in the future, but in Spanish is only used to describe an action that is in process of taking place, it’s not use for future actions.

The form of present progressive combine a form of “estar� with the present participle.

This is a link for a videogame, enjoy it http://www.eslgamesplus.com/action-verbs-present-progressive-grammar-game-rally-game/

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Mind Map combination between the verb “to be� and the present participle

Present progressive

Structure

In English present progressive describe what is happen now or what will be happen in the future, but in Spanish is only used to describe an action that is in process of taking place

I am working

structure: subject + be + verb + ing

Examples

He is driving She is singing They are eating We are playing soccer

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Chapter 2 In this chapter you can see what is going to and will, but also you could be recognized their differences with examples and another kind of activities. At the end of this chapter you will see a mind map.

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What is Going to and will ?

“Going to” is a grammatical construction used in English to refer to different types of future occurrences. Specially plans or intentions.

“Will” is used to talk about something that can happen in the future specially predictions or immediate decisions.

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Differences between Going to and will Going to: -We use “going to�to talk about a planned activity for future.

-For intentions or plans in a near future.

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Will: -When we decide to do something at the time of speaking.

-We use “will� for predictions in remote time.

-For requests, invitations and offers.

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Going to and will “Going to” is a construction used in English to refer to the future occurrences.

Specially plans or intentions.

Structure: subject + be + going to + verb + complement

-I’m going to graduate in July.

-We are going to school.

“Will” is used to talk about a prediction in the future, but also when we do a immediate decision.

Structure: subject + verb + complement

-It will rain tomorrow.

-I will buy that jacket.

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Chapter 3 Here you can find information about prepositions, you could be see examples, activities and a mind map to understand this topic. This topic is very useful in for develop your vocabulary, enjoy it.

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What are prepositions ?

A preposition is a word (usually a short word) that show the relationship between to other two nearby words. A preposition precedes a noun or a pronoun, to show the noun’s or pronoun’s relationship with another word in the sentence.

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Different kind of prepositions When we talk about preposition they are different kinds of prepositions, some examples are.

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But those are not all the prepositions, here you a list with more prepositions and some examples.

List of prepositions:

Examples:

Here you can find a game about prepositions:

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List of prepositions:

What are ?

Is a word that show the relationship between to other two nearby words.

A preposition precedes a noun or a pronoun, to show the noun’s or pronoun’s relationship with another word in the sentence.

Examples:

Prepositions Structure:

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Bibliography -Present progressive

-What it’s the difference between Present progressive in English and Present progressive in Spanish ? http://studyspanish.com/grammar/lessons/presprog/ -What is going to and will? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going-to_future -Going to vs Will. http://www.grammarbank.com/will-vs-going-to.html -Prepositions. http://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/prepositions.htm

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Thanks This magazine was a very good experience for my career, because i got new knowledge and i learned things about this topic.

I thank to my teacher Mary Elen NiĂąo who give me a lot of information about this topics and for that reason i made a very good presentation. But also we wanna say thanks to the teacher Andrea Canaval for her help in the development of our main idea about the problem that we chose. Thanks a lot.

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