Hello. In this video we're looking at the form of 'I am making', that's with 'am', 'is'
and 'are making', and we're looking at the questions, 'Are you making?' and the negative,
'she is not making'. Hope you enjoy it!
We'll look at 'I am making' first, then we'll look at 'she is' and 'they are'. Here's a
picture, that's me, and we'll just write a sentence - what am I doing? 'I am making a
video.' That's the statement, 'I am making a video.'
Now suppose we want to ask a question. Let's write here 'a film?' So the question is about
a film. So I take 'am', and put it down there, and I take 'I', and put it there, and I complete
the sentence with 'making', I put making down there, and there we have a sentence, just
change the 'a' to a capital, and there we have a question, 'Am I making a film?'
But the answer is no, not a film, this is a video. So, I'll write 'not' there, and I'll
write 'a film' over here. Now I'll bring down the other parts of the sentence, first of
all the subject, 'I', I'll put that there, and then 'am', I'll put that there, and finally
'making', I'll put there. So 'I am not making a film'.
So those are the three forms, 'I am making', 'Am I making?', 'I am not making.' Now let's
move onto 'she is'. Here's another picture, there's Sally, and Sally 'she is practicing'
- I'll just write it there - 'she is practicing the piano, she is practicing the piano.'
Now suppose we want to make it a question, let's say the violin for example. I'll just
write there 'the violin' and put a question mark, and then we take the parts of the sentence
and we move them. It's a question, so the 'is' goes at the front, then the 'she', and
then finally the 'practicing', and then I'll just change the 'S' to a small 's' and the
'i' to a capital 'I' and there we have it. There's the question - 'is she practicing
the violin?'
The answer is no, so we'll put a 'not' there, and I'll write 'the violin', 'not the violin',
and I'll bring down the elements of the sentence: 'she' (the subject) 'is practicing' and there
we have a negative sentence, 'she is not practicing the violin.'
So again those are the three sentences, 'She is practicing', 'Is she practicing?', 'She
is not practicing.'
Now let's move onto the last part, with 'are'. Two boys - 'they are playing football'. 'They
are playing football'. Now suppose we want to make a question, we'll write a different
game here, I'll write 'rugby?' So there's the question. So again we take 'are', put
it there, 'they' and 'playing', put it there, and just correct the 'a' and the 't' - 'are
they playing rugby?', that's the question.
Now the answer of course is no, so I'll just write here 'not', and again 'rugby', and we'll
bring down the two parts - the three, sorry, the three parts of the sentence - 'they' goes
there, and then 'are', and then the 'not', and then 'playing' at the end. 'They are not
playing rugby.'
We've looked at the three forms of the present progressive, 'I am making', and then the question,
'am I making?' and the negative, 'I am not making' - we've looked at it with 'am', with
'is', and with 'are'.
Now just to see if you've understood all of that, I have a little test.