 Another idea for the present continuous tense focuses on the action of miming. Because it's in the present continuous tense, it'll be critical that the student who is doing the miming continues to do the miming as the students guess what he or she is doing. In order to do this, the teacher will ask one student to come to the front of the class and present them with a card. The card at low levels will just be one word, such as sleeping, surfing, eating or playing. As soon as the student is able to mime any one of those actions, the students continue to guess with, you are sleeping, you are eating, you are surfing. Now at higher levels, what you could do is continue on from the base of the action and include something like you are playing football or you are playing video games, you are eating spaghetti or you are eating spicy food. Once the student at the front of the room doing the miming has successfully gotten their fellow students to guess the action, he or she then has a seat with the rest of the group and somebody else will come up to do another mime. Hopefully by the end of the class, at least all of the students will have had a chance to come up and mime a certain action.