WE USE IT TO EXPRESS:

HABITUAL ACTIONS

Example : We usually go to the Algarve.

PERMANENT SITUATIONS

Example: Susan lives in Liverpool.

PROGRAMMES OR TIMETABLES

Example: School starts at 9 a.m.

GENERAL TRUTHS OR NATURAL LAWS

Example: Lisbon is the capital of Portugal.

The earth goes around the sun.
 How do we form the Present Simple Tense?

AFFIRMATIVE
I
You
We make INTERROGATIVE
They I
He you
She makes Do we make? NEGATIVE
It they
I
he
You
Does she make
We don’t make
it
They
He
She doesn’t make
It
 NOTES:

When a verb ends in -O, -SS, -SH, -CH,

-X, we add -ES to the 3rd person
singular.

EXAMPLE: do - he does watch - he watches

wash - he washes fix - he fixes miss - he misses

Some expressions about Present Simple

EVERY DAY USUALLY

ALWAYS
OFTEN

NORMALLY
SOMETIMES
NEVER
SELDOM