English Form One Notes – Expressing Ongoing Activities
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EXPRESSING ONGOING ACTIVITIES
Talking about Ongoing Activities
Talking about Activities being done by Oneself and/or other
Creatures/Things
Talk about Activites being done by Oneself and other Creatures/Things
Example 1
Examples of ongoing activites
+ Tam teaching computers.
+ Mymother is watering the garden
+ She was cooking Ugali
+The sumis shining the whole day
+ Are you travelling to Accra?
+ The ell will ring at 4:30am.
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Read this conversation and then answer the questions that follow
‘Masu : Hi, how are you?
Mosi: Very well, thanks!
Masu: Can I see what you’re doing?
Mosi: Certainly!
Masu : Great, my name is Mas
Mosi : My name is Mosi The boy riding a bike is my young brother, Linus
Masu: Is he learning how to ride?
Mosi: No, he is already @ good rider, 1 coached him, He is competing in bieyele competitions in
the next month
Masu: sce, but what are you ding with that smal lock?
Mosi: Its not a clock, i’s a stopwatch. lam timing how long he takes to ride one lap. Just watch
ashe finishes a lap, Linus, 28 sec? You’re slowing down, speed up!
Linus: lam geting tired ss!
Mosi: Try to ride faster for 24 seconds onthe next lap!
Masu: [can see you are pushing him hard
Mosi: Yes this is the only way to train him, He has to go forthe zonal race; ‘no pain no gain’
remember?
Mast: also have a bicycle I ike riding, but I don’t think I can tain to compete
Most: Well, we are not always just training, We also play here at Mrembeni Children Park
Would you care to join us?
Masu: Thanks, that would be great! Iam new in town and so I don’t have many friends yet
Questions
Write “true” if the statement is true and “false” if the statement is not true for cach of the
following statements
1. Linus is riding a bieyee
2. Mosiis teaching her brother how to ride abieycle
3. Linus is preparing ore in a cycling competition
4. Mosiis good coach
5. Mosi is punishing Linus because she i a cruel sister
6 Linus is ing slower because hes tred
7. Masu doesn’t like eyeling