Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Present Simple

Hi my dear students!
Write this new information about Simple Present tense on your notebooks and learn the rules and structures well for next class.
See you!

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Present Simple tense
We use the present tense to talk about:
1. Things that are always true.
Examples:

  • Birds have two wings.
  • It rains a lot in winter.
  • Water freezes at 0° celsius
  • A dog has four legs.
  • The Sun rises in the east.
  • Ice floats.
  • Water wets
  • The Sun heats
***Remember: For names, ages, nationalities, time, qualities, jobs, places (use the verb To BE)

2. For repeated actions. The action can be a habit, a hobby, a daily event or routine, a schedule event, future timetables or something that often happens.

Examples:
  • take the bus to school.
  • The train to Berlin leaves every hour.
  • John sleeps eight hours every night during the week.
  • get up early every day.
  • Susie and Betty go shopping every Saturday morning.
  • They usually buy a lot of things.
  • Carol brushes her teeth twice a day.
  • They travel to their country house every weekend.
2. For facts or generalizations. Things that the speaker thinks was true before, is true now and will be true in the future :
  • The President of The USA lives in The White House.
  • We come from Colombia.
  • The Queen of England lives in Buckingham Palace.
  • They speak English at work.
  • California is in America
  • Cats like milk

STRUCTURE
This table shows the form to express affirmative, negative and interrogative actions in Simple present. You can apply these structures for all the verbs except the verb to BE.




EXERCISE
Write new sentences in Simple Present tense (don´t repeat the examples given above):
-10 examples about things that are always true.
-10 examples about repeated actions.
-10 examples about facts or generalizations.


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