Present Simple or Progressive?

[Teia]

Originally Posted by Tdol

You're right, Carmenn, we do use the present progressive for future arrangements.

And we also use present continuous with the adverb "always" when we talk about an annoying situation:
She is always making noise at night.

[Tdol]

Indeed we can. And we can also use it for things in progress but not necessarily happening at the moment:
What are you reading at the moment?
How are things going at work?