University of California, Irvine
Questions, Present Progressive and Future Tenses
University of California, Irvine

Questions, Present Progressive and Future Tenses

This course is part of Learn English: Beginning Grammar Specialization

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Rachel Fernandez
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There are 4 modules in this course

We will start this week with question words. You will learn how to ask information questions in the simple present. Information questions are questions where the answer is not "yes" or "no." The answer is some information. For example, “Where are you?” is an information question because the answer is not “yes.” It is, “I’m at school.”

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4 videos3 readings1 quiz

This week, you will learn more about nouns: count nouns and non-count nouns. This will help you ask questions like “How many brothers do you have?” and “How much time do you need?” Then we will look at the present progressive. This is another verb tense in English. The present progressive tells about things that are happening now. You will learn about how to form it and also how to make the negative.

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3 videos3 readings1 quiz

This week is all about asking questions with the present progressive. You will learn how to ask yes/no questions and information questions. Then we will compare simple present and present progressive so you can see when to use each. You will learn about signal words and the difference between sentences like “I speak English” and “I am speaking English.”

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3 videos3 readings1 quiz

Now that you know how to form the present progressive, this week you will see how we use “be going to” and the present progressive to talk about the future. You will also learn how to use “can” to talk about what you can and can’t do.

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Rachel Fernandez
University of California, Irvine
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