PRESENT SIMPLE

USES

• HABITS AND ROUTINES (I play tennis every day)

• FACTS (Water boils at 100ºC)
• SCHEDULED EVENTS IN THE NEAR FUTURE (The train
leaves at 5 o’clock)
• STATIVE VERBS (love, like, hate, don’t mind, understand,
believe, want, smell…)
FORM
AFFIRMATIVE NEGATIVE INTERROGATIVE
I play I don’t play Do I play?
YOU play YOU don’t play Do YOU play?
HE plays HE doesn’t play Does HE play?
SHE plays SHE doesn’t play Does SHE play?
IT plays IT doesn’t play Does IT play?
WE play WE don’t play Do WE play?
YOU play YOU don’t play Do YOU play?
THEY play THEY don’t play Do THEY play?

QUESTIONS:

WH- + AUX (DO/DOES) + SUBJECT + VERB + COMPLEMENTS?

Where do you have breakfast in the morning?
EXAMPLES AND SPELLING

Spelling –s (3rd person singular)

• I play tennis every day. - Most verbs: add “s” to infinitive: works,
plays
• She rides a bike in the morning.
- Vowel+ “y”: plays
• You don’t have lunch at school.
- Verbs ending with consonant and “y”:
• Marcos doesn’t swim in the lake
change “y” for “ies”: cries
every day.
- Verbs ending in sounds –s, -z, -ch, -sh,
• Do you brush your teeth twice a day? -ss, -x, -o: add –es: kisses, watches, goes
• Does the cat drink milk?
 TIME EXPRESSIONS
• every (day, week, month, Sunday, summer, year): I walk my dog
every day.
• once a / twice a / three times a (day, month, year): She brushes her
teeth twice a day.
• on Mondays, on Tuesdays: You don’t ride a bike on Mondays.
• in the mornings, in the afternoons, in the evenings: Do you watch TV
in the mornings?
Time expressions  at the end of the sentence

• adverbs of frequency
ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY (POSITION
IN THE SENTENCE)
With TO BE, the adverb of
frequency goes AFTER the
main verb.

Examples:

I am never at home.

She is always in her shop.

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SENTENCES USING THE PRESENT SIMPLE
Example:
The children play in the
park