Simple

Present Tense
 Simple Present Tense
Has 2 uses

when an action is when it happens

happening right
regularly
now

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 Example

Terry When the

action
plays the happens
piano. now.

3
 Example
Pauline
When it practices the
happens piano every
regularly day.

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 How to form the Simple Present
Tense

I, YOU,
I, YOU, WE,
THEY
+ verb
PLAY

WE, THEY (PLAY)

HE, SHE, IT PLAYS
3 Person
rd HE, SHE, + verb + S
Singular
IT (PLAYS)

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 Remember
He, she, it, I, you, we, they can be replaced by the
name of persons or things.

I= Cynthia
He= Pedro you= student/students
we= Cynthia and Tim
She= Lola They= Pedro and Lola

It= cat/pen
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 Examples
He moves freely.

We need
empathy

Tim carries the

chairs
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 Special Cases

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 Negative statements

I, YOU, + don’t / + verb

WE, THEY do not (PLAY)

3rd Person HE, SHE, + doesn’t / + verb

Singular
IT does not (PLAY)

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I don’t know
Vocabulary
how to drive.

They don’t care

about others.
She doesn’t
like dogs.
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 Frequency
Adverbs
We often use adverbs such
They come after be
as always, never, often,
and before other
sometimes, and usually
main verbs.
with the Present Simple to
say how frequently we do
things.

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 Adverbs of Frequency
% Adverb of Frequency Example

100% Always / every I’m always tired.

80% Usually / frequently I’m not usually busy on Sundays.

60% Often / most He often goes to the bank.

30% Sometimes / some I sometimes play soccer in the school.

0% Never He’s never late.

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 Questions and Answers

A. When does she usually finish work?

B. At six, but sometimes at seven.
A. Where do you usually go for a drink?
B. In a bar near my office.
A. Do you sometimes get a takeaway?
B. Yes, usually on Fridays. / No, not often
A. Why is he never on time?
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 Select the correct form of Simple Present

1. She ___ very well. 2. They ___ the store at 3. I ___ several jobs.
a. Drive 8:00. a. Have
b. Drives a. Open b. Has
b. Opens

5. I ___ hard. 6. They ___ the store at

4. My sister___ English.
a. Work 8:00.
a. Speak
b. Works a. Open
b. Speaks
b. Opens

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 Thank
You!!
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