Macmillan Publishers Ltd 2004
Taken from the News
section in
www.onestopenglish.com
Look at this sentence from the text:
Soyabean farming in the Amazon region is increasing.
This means that this activity is happening now and is continuing. We use the present continuous
to talk about these processes.
Make more sentences using the present continuous from these prompts. You can check your
answers in the text.
1.
farmers
cut down
trees
2.
cattle ranchers
destroy
rainforests
3.
enormous ranching operations
control
beef export market
4.
commercial ranchers
produce
beef and ...
5.
... they
sell
European supermarkets
6.
the rainforest
disappear
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