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By Ilenia Papilio
 PRESENT
SIMPLE 1°LESSON

Verbo alla forma base(infinito senza to)

e aggiunta di –s alla terza persona
 USE
 To talk about things and situations that are generally true
She is 28 years old and she has a small flat
The general truth can be:
A repeated action: she takes the train to work, but I generally drive
A permanent situation: She lives in London
The present simple can also be used in informal stories, for example,
describing a film scene or telling a joke:
This man goes into a bar and orders an orange juice…
FORM
Positive Statements Negative statements (with do)

I play I don’t play

You play You don’t play
He/She/It plays He/she/it doesn’t play
We play We don’t play
You play You don’t play
They play They don’t play
INTERROGATIVE/ WH-
QUESTIONS
 Do you play? (yes/no answer)
 yes, I do – no, I don’t

 Where do you play?

 Where does she play?
SPELLING
 The third person is sometimes spelled in different ways:

In verbs which end in sh, ch, ss, x, ES is added: washes, watches,

kisses, fixes. Pronounced /iz/

In verbs which end in a consonant +y, the y is changed to an I and es

is added: try – tries, carry – carries
OTHER POINTS
 We can say how often something happens with adverbs of frequency like
always, usually, often (quite), sometimes, (almost)never.

 The adverb goes between the subject and the verb.

 Utilizziamo il present simple in domande come What do you do?
Per chiedere: di cosa ti occupi?
Terze persone da tenere a mente:
do- does; have- has; go – goes
PRESENT
CONTINUOUS
Verbo to be al present simple + verbo alla forma in ing
 USE
 the present continuous is used to talk about:

1 Actions that are going around or at the time of speaking;

Jane’s having a bath at the moment
2 Temporary situations. Compare:
He’s working in Oxford just now (but next year he will do something else)
He works for a company in Oxford
3 Changing situations (with get and become) and with comparative adjectives like more,worse,
better: this city is becoming more and more dangerous
4 Behaviour that happens more often than expected, with always, forever and costantly:
Why are you always shouting?
5 future plans
STATIVE VERBS
 Alcuni verbi non sono usati al present continuous:

Sono chiamati stative verbs e sono verbi che descrivono pensieri, sentimenti e sensi: think, love, like, hate,
know, understand, mind, see, prefer, smell, hear, taste etc.
Non diciamo I am knowing the answer, but I know the answer
We use can with sense verbs: I can’t hear you, not I don’t hear you.

In alcuni casi è possibile utilizzare i verbi stativi alla forma in ing:

Ex: She is tasting the soup (azione)
This soup is tasting good sbagliato!
What are you thinking now?
What do you think about politics?
FORM SHORT ANSWERS(YES, I AM – NO,
I AM NOT)
affermative negative

 I am  I am not
 You are  You aren’t

 He/she/it is playing  He/she/it isn’t playing

 We are  We aren’t
 You are  You aren’t
 They are  They aren’t
SPELLING
 Nei verbi monisillabici che terminano in consonante preceduta da vocale, quando si aggiunge
la forma in ing la consonante si raddoppia:

E. g. stop stopping
Run running

Nei verbi che terminano in e (take, lose) la e cade: taking, losing, nei verbi che terminano in
doppia e come see, la e resta: e.g seeing
Esercizi:
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/intermediate-to-upper-intermediate/stative-verbs
 Vocabulary
LET’S TRY TOGETHER
Apparence
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/vocabulary/beginner-to-pre-intermediate

 Listening:
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listening/intermediate-b1/a-phone-c
all-from-a-customer
 Writing
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/writing/pre-intermediate-a2/a-perso
nal-profile
 Speaking!
https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/grammar/questions-interrogative/
grammar-meets-conversation-wh-questions-1-getting-know-you/2305
LET’S TRY TOGETHER PT.2
 Reading
 https://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/elc/studyzone/490/reading/dog2-reading.htm?
fbclid=IwAR29MzY_59sBqgsZ_-RRmbETrTXXMN_0ag-SlWNjlt71_v-f5ML6ZQOLoKU
IDIOMATIC CORNER
Nuts!
In a nutshell = to sum up
To be nuts about something: andare pazzo per qualcosa
Look like: Somigliare
Take after: Prendere da….

Blowing his own trumpet or horn…what do you think it

means?