Present Continuous

The present progressive is used for events taking place in or around this particular moment in time, or to indicate that something is temporary, or to discuss changing situation, and also to discuss future plans.

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What is it this simple?

In English, Present simple tense is the present (and not perfective aspect) expressing habitual action, ie, habits, routines in daily life. It differs from the present perfect in that the latter has perfective aspect, and the continuous present in which the other has progressive aspect.

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poem

Meeting
Conrad (Potter) Aiken (1889-1978)

Conrad AikenWhy do I look at you? Why do I touch you? What do I seek in you, woman,
That I should to meet you again?
Why must I sound once more your abysmal anothingnees,
And draw up only pain?
Hard, hard, I stare at you watery ayes; yet am not convinced, Now no more than ever before,
That they are only two mirrors reflecting the sky’s blank light,
That, and nothing more.
And I press my body against your body, as thoungh I hoped to break
Clean through to another sphere;
And I strive to speak to you with a speech beyond my speech,
In which all things are clear;
Till exhausted I drown once more in your abysmal nothingnees,
And the cold nothignees of me:
You, laughing and crying in this ridiculous room,
With your had upon my knee;
Crying because you think me perverse and unhappy; and laughing
To find our love so strange;
Our eyes fixed hard on each other in a last blind desperate hope
That the whole world might change.

in spanish
Encuentro

¿Por qué te contemplo? ¿Por qué te toco? ¿Qué busco en ti, mujer,
que he de apresurarme para estar contigo una vez más?
¿Por qué debo sondear nuevamente tu nada abisal
Y extraer nada más que dolor?
Fijamente, fijamente miro tus ojos acuosos; pero no quedo más convencido
Ahora que alguna otra vez
De que sólo son dos espejos que reflejan la luz del firmamento,
Eso y nada más.
Y aprieto tu cuerpo contra mi cuerpo como si esperara abrirme una brecha
Directamente a otra esfera;
Y me esfuerzo por hablar contigo con palabras más allá de mí palabra,
En las que todas las cosas son claras,
Hasta que exhausto me hundo una vez más en tu nada abisal
Y la fría nada de mí:
Tú, riendo y llorando en este cuarto ridículo
Con tu mano sobre mi rodilla;
Llorando porque me crees perverso y desdichado; y riendo
Por hallar nuestro amor tan extraño;
Con la vista mutuamente clavada en una última esperanza, ciega y desesperada,
De que el mundo entero cambie.

Lyrics in this simple

I'm a loser
I'm a loser
And I'm not what I appear to be

Of all the love I have won or have lost
there is one love I should never have crossed
She was a girl in a million, my friend
I should have known she would win in the end

I'm a loser
And I lost someone who's near to me
I'm a loser
And I'm not what I appear to be

Although I laugh and I act like a clown
Beneath this mask I am wearing a frown
My tears are falling like rain from the sky
Is it for her or myself that I cry

I'm a loser
And I lost someone who's near to me
I'm a loser
And I'm not what I appear to be

What have I done to deserve such a fate
I realize I have left it too late
And so it's true, pride comes before a fall
I'm telling you so that you won't lose all

I'm a loser
And I lost someone who's near to me
I'm a loser
And I'm not what I appear to be

This simple exercise

write the sentences

1.-artists/ manchester/ from/ We (+)

We are artist from manchester.

2.-Emma/ her/ and/ David/ children (-)

Emma and David aren´t her children

3.-son/ daughter/ and/ students/ my (+)

4.-and/ musicians/ brothers/ Paul/ his (-)

5.-big/ from/ a/ family/ you (-)

6.-sister/ his/ teachers/ and/ husband/ her (+)