PRESENT SIMPLE vs PRESENT CONTINUOUS

1.- This tense is to express your everyday activities at home, school, with friends etc.; in other words they are habitual actions.

• PRESENT SIMPLE

• PRESENT PROGRESSIVE

2.-In this tense, you can talk about situations, events and activities that are happening in the moment you are speaking.

• PRESENT CONTINUOUS

• PRESENT SIMPLE

3.- Some common or frequent phrases that indicate this tense are: now, right now, at the moment, in this moment, this week, this month, this day, etc.

• PRESENT SIMPLE

• PRESENT PROGRESSIVE

4.- Some phrases that indicate present tense are:

• At the moment, in this moment, this day, currently, nowadays, now, right now...

• Every day, on weekdays, at the weekends, adverbs of frequency...

5.-

• PRESENT PROGRESSIVE

• PRESENT SIMPLE

6.-

• PRESENT CONTINUOUS

• PRESENT SIMPLE

7.- I am eating chocolate.

• PRESENT SIMPLE

• PRESENT CONTINUOUS

8.- I usually drink coffee with my breakfast.

• PRESENT SIMPLE

• PRESENT PROGRESSIVE

9.- He is taking the bus right now.

• PRESENT SIMPLE

• PRESENT CONTINUOUS

10.- My cousin goes to the gym on Wednesdays.

• PRESENT SIMPLE

• PRESENT PROGRESSIVE