Coffee Break English: Mastering Present Continuous and Present Simple Tenses
Learn English through the Coffee Break English podcast and understand the difference between present continuous and present simple tenses.
00:00:00 Learn English through the Coffee Break English podcast. Each week, Josie and Mark discuss a text and focus on a language point, starting with basic grammar. In this episode, they listen to Katrina, a Scottish woman on holiday in Italy, and learn about the difference between the present continuous and present simple tenses.
🎙️ Coffee Break English is a podcast that helps improve English language skills through weekly listening and focus on grammar or vocabulary.
🌍 The podcast features texts from various English-speaking regions, including different accents, to help understand different people.
📚 In the first episode, the text discusses the difference between the present continuous and present simple tenses.
00:03:09 A family is enjoying breakfast in the garden before a day at the beach and lunch at a pizza restaurant. They are on vacation in Italy.
🌞 The speaker is describing their current breakfast in the garden, where the adults drink coffee and the children have orange juice and chocolate pastries.
🏖️ The speaker mentions that they are going to the beach later in the morning and having lunch at a pizza restaurant.
🍦 The speaker talks about how they rarely have ice cream in the UK, but they are buying it every day during their holiday.
00:06:17 Learn English through podcasts - Coffee Break English-1. Explains the difference between present simple and present continuous tenses and when to use them.
📌 The use of present simple and present continuous tense in English.
📌 The distinction between general truths and temporary actions.
📌 The exception of using present continuous tense with the verb 'to be'.
00:09:26 Learn English through the Coffee Break English podcast. The transcript discusses adverbs of frequency and present simple tense. Children enjoy the sun and swimming outside, while Katrina has breakfast in the garden in Italy.
📚 The video discusses the use of adverbs of frequency in English, such as 'usually' and 'often'.
🌞 Children are enjoying the sun and playing outside, while also swimming in the pool.
❄️ Although they often go swimming in the local pool, they never swim outside due to the cold.
00:12:34 Learn English through podcast with Coffee Break English. Discussing adverbs of frequency and comparing breakfast routines.
🕒 Adverbs of frequency always go before the verb, except when the verb is 'to be'.
🍽️ The actions of drinking coffee, fresh orange juice, and eating chocolate pastries are happening in the present continuous.
🔁 Katrina compares her breakfast in Italy to her breakfast at home using the present simple.
00:15:42 Learn English through podcasts - coffee break english-1. Discussing present continuous for future plans and arrangements, delicious food, and holiday activities like going to the beach and buying ice cream.
The present continuous tense is used to talk about future plans or arrangements when we are certain about them.
Delicious food, especially ice cream, is enjoyed by Katrina and Mark in their current location (not mentioned).
On holiday, Katrina mentions that they are buying ice cream every day, even though they rarely have it in the UK.
00:18:50 A family on holiday in Italy, enjoying the quiet countryside and beautiful weather. They go to the beach, have lunch at a pizza restaurant, and indulge in ice cream.
📚 The speaker is on holiday with their family in Italy, enjoying the quiet and beautiful weather.
🏖️ They are planning to go to the beach and have lunch at a pizza restaurant.
🍦 They are indulging in ice cream, which they rarely have in the UK.
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