The player The player Is someone who:

likes being with people and enjoys va­riety and change;

prefers listening and speaking to reading and writing;

prefers playing games and working in groups to writing exercises;

prefers competition and excitement to practice and homework;

prefers trying lots of different activities to doing long projects;

enjoys participating and performing;

hates doing the same thing lesson after lesson;

would like to do different things all the time.

The thinker The thinker is someone who:

wants to know why and is always looking for rules and principles;

works independently and learns from individual study;

enjoys listening to lectures and doing projects and longer written work;

is very hard-working and always, wants to get things right;

prefers reading to taking part in discussions or group activities;

likes getting feedback from the teacher;

sometimes does not complete work and is often dissatisfied with it as it may not be perfect;

would like to know everything there is to know.

The feeler The feeler is someone who:

is good at and enjoys learning languages;

loves interacting and group and pair work;

is interested in talking about emotions and personal topics;

enjoys being with people and learns through cooperation;

prefers taking part in discussions to studying rules and doing exercises;

likes reading, role-play and drama;

is very sensitive to criticism and needs individual feedback;

prefers speaking to writing.

Grammar The Present Continuous Tense

Positive and negative

		I	am		playing	in the yard.
			am	not
		He She It	is
			is	not
		We You They	are
			are	not

Subject question

Who

is

playing

in the yard?

Special questions

Where

is

he

playing?

There are some groups of verbs that are never used in the Present Continuous. The Present Simple is used with these verbs, because they mean states or conditions, i.e. facts – not activities.

Verbs of thinking and opinion think* understand see suppose mean imagine believe know recognize realize remember forget agree doubt expect deserve	Verbs of emotions and feeling like prefer dislike want hate wish love care hope
Verbs of senses see* hear smell taste* feel	Verbs of having and being have* possess contain include belong to seem sound owe own weigh cost deserve depend on need be resemble

* verbs can be used in the Present Continuous with the difference in meaning

Note spelling of verb + -ing

help – helping	come –coming	play – playing	get – getting
go - going	write - writing	stay – staying	plan - planning
build – building	have - having	try - trying	dig - digging
show - showing		*lie - lying	swim - swimming