Unit one: Tenses.

1.1 - present simple.

Examples:
I always play football.
We often work for them.
It rains here a lot.
He teaches English.

The present tense is used to indicate a generality -

something that happens all the time.
This may be indicated by using words such as “often”,
“never”, “usually”, “every day”, etc.

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The present tense is formed by

1 - the stem of the verb (talk / work / rain / teach);
2 - the stem + s with third person singular
(he talks / she works / it rains );
3 - the stem + es (pronounced [IZ]) with third person
singular when the stem ends with “s”, “z” or “ch”
(presses / freezes / teaches).
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Note:
the following verbs have only one form:
can / could / may / might / must / will / would / should.
 Unit one: Tenses.

1.2 - present continuous (“-ing”).

Examples:
I am doing it now.
He is talking about us.
We are working on it today.

The present continuous is used to indicate that the

action is happening now and is not finished yet.

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The present continuous is formed by

am / are / is + stem + ing.
(“I am doing it now”)

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Note:
the following verbs do not have an “ing-form”:
can / could / may / might / must / will / would / should