Write this new information about Simple Present tense on your notebooks and learn the rules and structures well for next class.
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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:
- I take the
bus to school.
- The
train to Berlin leaves every hour.
- John sleeps eight
hours every night during the week.
- I 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.
