Present Simple

When to use it?

• Expresses daily habits or usual activities

We usually start work at 8.

She always arrives home with her brother.

When to use it?

• Expresses general statements or facts.

Pilots fly planes

My name is Ann

Earth is not triangle.

Sentence construction

I She

You He

We The sugar

They It

The cats The cat

My friend and I Marry

Via and Vio My mother

Elephants

The verbs

Singular verbPlural verb

carries

comes

carry

comegoteach

are is

teachesgoes

My friends and I Englishteach

My mother EnglishteachesSingular verbSingular subject

Plural verbPlural subject

Subject-verb agreement (positive)

• We are Himatrisian. Plural subject,

• Freddy is Himatrisian. Singular subject,

• Tedd and Barry come from England. Plural subject,

• She comes from England. Singular subject,

Plural verb

Plural verb

Singular verb

Singular verb

Subject-verb agreement (negative)

• We aren’t Himatrisian. Plural subject,

• Freddy isn’t Himatrisian. Singular subject,

• Tedd and Barry don’t come from England. Plural subject,

• She doesn’t come from England. Singular subject,

Plural verb

Plural verb

Singular verb

Singular verb

Questions(Auxiliary verb – subject – base form)

• your mother chocolate? • vegetarians meat?• you guitar?• What your sister • Where you from?• Math difficult?• How she to school?

Does likeDo eatCan play

does do?are

Isdoes go

Adverbials of time

Example She usually gets up earlyWe study until 3.30I have basketball practices

on Tuesdays.

Daily Routine

My daily routines

I usually get up at 5:30 on weekdays, but I sometimes get up at 9 or 10 on the weekends. After shower, I always have breakfast with my parents. I sometimes go to school by bike, but I go by bus most of the times. On Mondays and Wednesdays, I study at school until 5 p.m. Then I go home and have dinner with my family. I read books or do my homework until 9 or 10 and go to bed at 11.

example

Let’s

Exercise

• Write a paragraph about your daily activities. consisted of 6 – 10 activities Using adverbials of time

• Circle the adverbs, underline the verbs.

Sources :

• Azar, Betty Schrampfer. Fundamentals of English Grammar. 2nd edition.

• Azar. Betty Schrampfer. Understanding and Using English Grammar. 2nd Edition.

• http://www.vocabulary.cl/Lists/Free_Time_Activities.htm

• http://www.vocabulary.cl/Lists/Daily_Routines.htm