THE PRESENT SIMPLE TENSE

Affirmative form/positive form:

Subject + infinitive
pronouns
1 2 3 4

1st person I play watch fix study have

2nd person YOU play watch fix study have
singular
HE plays watches fixes studies has
3rd person SHE plays watches fixes studies has
IT plays watches fixes studies has

1st person WE play watch fix study have

plural
3rd person THEY play watch fix study have

I study at the university.

Juan studies at the university.
Maria and I go to the same university.
Negative form: ( do + not = don’t , does + not = doesn’t)
Subject + infinitive
pronouns
1 2 3 4

I don’t play watch fix study have

YOU don’t play watch fix study have

HE doesn’t play watch fix study have

SHE doesn’t play watch fix study have
IT doesn’t play watch fix study have

WE don’t play watch fix study have

THEY don’t play watch fix study have

I don’t play volleyball.

We don’t have a house.
They don’t speak German.
You don’t love me.

He doesn’t study at university.

Maria doesn’t go to the cinema.
Jorge doesn’t work early.
INTERROGATIVE form.

Do you study German?

Yes/No questions:

Do you play football? Yes, I do. / No, I don’t.

Do I play football? Yes, you do. / No, you don’t.
Do we play football? Yes, we do. / No, we don’t.
Do they play football? Yes, they do. / No, they don’t

Does Merlyn have brothers? Yes, she does. / No, she doesn’t.
Does Deimer study English? Yes, he does. / No, he doesn’t.

Information questions:

Where do you play football? I play football at the university.

At the university.
What time does Deimer study English?
He studies at 6.00 o’clock.
At 6.00 o’clock.
Exercises:
3.2. She’s Yasmina Kamal
She’s from Egypt
She’s a student
She’s nineteen
3.3. They’re Ilona and Laszlo Novak
They’re from Hungary
They’re teachers
They’re twenty-six and twenty-eight years old respectively
4.2. What is your name?
She is from Italy
I am ten years old
They are from the USA
You are English
We are students
4.3. I’m Maria
He’s married
They’re from Brazil
I’m from Mexico. I don’t from Spain
We’re from the USA
He’s a teacher, He doesn’t a doctor
I. PRESENT SIMPLE.
Complete the sentences with the verb in brackets, in the correct form.
1. Fatima __goes__ to university on her bike. (go)
2. A lot of birds ___fly__ south in the winter. (fly)
3. She ____studies____ very hard at the weekends. (study)
4. My father ___watches_____ TV every evenings. (watch)
5. I often ___cry_____ at the cinema.(cry)
6. She ___does_____ a lot of homework in the evenings. (do)
7. A mother cat __washes____ her kittens. (wash)
8. You ____teach_____ language very well. (teach)
 THE TIME
What time is it? What’s the time?

3.00 = It’s three o’clock.

3.15 = It’s a quarter (fifteen) past three.
3.20 = It’s twenty past three.
3.30 = It’s half (thirty) past three
3.31 = It’s twenty-nine to four.
3.45 = It’s a quarter to four.
3.50 = It’s ten to four.
3.55 = It’s five to four.
4.00 = it’s four o’clock.