Tema: SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

Docente: Mag. Karen Y. Escalera Vicente

2018-IC
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 Orientaciones

• Presentación personal (uso

• Personal presentation (use of
de uniforme).
uniform).
• Puntualidad y respeto.
• Punctuality and respect.
• Predisposición para la
• Predisposition for assimilation of
asimilación de conocimientos
knowledge and learning.
y el aprendizaje.
• Attitude and interest to perform
• Actitud e interés para realizar
teamwork during class
trabajo en equipo durante el
development.
desarrollo de la clase.
• It reserves the use of cell phones
• Se reserva el uso de celulares
or other devices that impede or
u otro dispositivo que impida
limit learning.
o limite el aprendizaje.
• Active student participation.
• Participación activa del
estudiante.
 Ordinal numbers

We use them to put things in an order.

 add st, nd, th to the cardinal number:
• one – first- 1st
• two – second- 2nd
• three – third-3rd
• four – fourth-4th
• five – fifth- 5th
Example:
• She won first prize.
• This was the first English exam. It was really hard!
• My birthday is 3rd January.
• What are you doing on the 2nd of May?
• Today is the 7th September
• March the Fourteenth, 2016
• 10th April, 2018
 Vocabulary: Public transportation

ship
bus train subway
plane

minibustaxi
James is a taxi driver.
He drives a taxi. But on
Sundays he doesn't
drive his taxi. He stays at
home
 go straight ahead
SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE
get off
take go straight
go to

Want to

Want to
turn right

We use SIMPLE PRESENT when we speak different action in present

 Contenidos temáticos

• SIMPLE PRESENT- GRAMMAR

– AFFIRMATIVE
– NEGATIVE
– QUESTIONS
• RULES
• VOCABLARY
• EXAMPLE
• EXERCISES
 SIMPLE PRESENT: AFFIRMATIVE

SUBJECT
(Personal Main
COMPLEMENT
Ponoun or VERB
Nouns)

• I eat cereal for breakfast in the morning.

• You get up early.
• They never buy oranges
• Mark reads a book.
 SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

Exceptions
We add “s” to the verb in third person singular. We use
“does” to make questions and “doesn´t” to make negative.
We don´t add “s” to the verb in questions and negative
sentences.

• He plays tennis every Saturday. (+)

• He doesn´t play tennis every
Saturday. (-)
• Does he play tennis every
Saturday? (?)
• Yes, He does/ No, He doesn´t.
 RULES
In Simple Present Tense, we add the suffix –s / -es / -ies at the end of the
verbs for the third singular subjects( He, She, It )

• If the verbs end with a consonant or a vowel, we generally add

just –s at the end of the verbs. Pronunciations /s/
– play — plays - drink — drinks -help — helps
– smoke — smokes - like — likes
• If the verbs end with -ss, -x, -sh, -ch, and -o we add -es at the end
of the verbs. Pronunciations /iz/
– miss — misses - watch — watches -fix — fixes
– mix — mixes - push — pushes -wash — washes
• If Verbs ends with a consonant + ‘–y’, we remove the -y and add –
ies at the end of the verbs.
– fly — flies - cry — cries
 SIMPLE PRESENT:NEGATIVE

SUBJECT Auxiliary
(Personal DO or DOES Main
COMPLEMENT
Ponoun or With NOT VERB
Nouns)

Examples:
• I don´t play soccer on weekends.
• They don´t go to school.
• He doesn´t read his book.
 SIMPLE PRESENT: QUESTION

SUBJECT
Auxiliary
(Personal Main
DO or DOES COMPLEMENT
Ponoun or VERB
With NOT
Nouns)

Examples:
• Do you speak English?
• Does he do exercises in the morning?
• Does Tom often play tennis?
• Do they usually read book?
IMPERATIVES
 IMPERATIVES SENTENCES

Commands
Advice

Requests
Suggestions
Orders or instructions
You can use the imperative form to give an order, to give a warning or advice,
and (if you use "please") to make a request. We can use them to tell people to
do or not to do things.
 Contenidos temáticos

• IMPERATIVES
• USES
• AFFIRMATIVE
• NEGATIVE
 IMPERATIVE

A type of sentence
that gives advices or
instructions or that
expresses a request
or command.

The imperative form is only used with the 2nd person

(singular and plural):

YOU
and with the 1st person plural:

WE
 AFFIRMATIVE FORM • Plural: Given two or
group of people
• SINGULAR: Given to one
person

• Open the door, please • Let’s play soccer

 WHAT IS THE IMPERATIVES?
Compare these two
Come to my party sentences:
'Could you close the door?'
'Close the door.‘
1) is a request. We are asking
someone to do something.
2) is an instruction. We are
telling some what to do

invitations
Turn off the computer
 Affirmative imperatives
The negative form is:

NOUN,
VERB ADJECTIVE

Example:
• Come here!
• Sit down! warnings
• Come here.
• Clean the bathroom.
offers
• Help your father.
• Stop her.
• Go to your room.

requests instructions
 Negative imperatives
advice
The negative form is:

Aux Base Name

NOT
DO VERB , adje

Example:
• Do not smoke in your room.'
'Don't touch me!'
• Don't come now.
• Don't clean the living room.
• Don't play on the computer.

orders
 IMPERATIVE WITH LET´S
You can also use "let's" before the verb if you are including yourself in the
imperative. The negative of "let's" is "let's not".
Let +us + Base form of verb + object Let + us + NOT + Base form of verb

Affirmative sentences Negative sentences

Let's not ask the teacher.
Let's ask the teacher.
Let's not tell her about it
Let's stop now.
Let’s (us) not make noise !
Let’s go to the library
Let’s not fight
Third person imperatives are not common; they are formed with:

Him/ Noun
Let phrase
her/it

A: How will Patrick know which house is ours?

B: Let him knock on all the doors until he finds ours!

Let him open the door.

If there are a number of steps in your instructions you can use
the following sequence markers:
First Then Next After that Finally

Let's use some imperatives with sequence markers to show

someone how to make a cup of coffee.
• First, boil some water.
• Then, put coffee into a cup.
• Next, pour the hot water into the cup.
• After that, add a little milk.
• Finally, stir the coffee.
 Direction: How..?

How do I get to the store?

• Turn left
How do I get to the bus stop?
• Go straight ahead
How do I get to the library?
• Go to the museum and turn right
How do I get to a bank?
• Go straight ahead to the park, and turn right . The bank
is turn left
 How do I
get to….?

• How do I get to police station?

• Go straight ahead on South Street.
• How do I get to zoo?