Bai giang Present Simple Tense

The present tense is the base form of the verb: I work in London.. But the third person she/he/it adds an -s: She works in London..[r]

PRESENT SIMPLE TENSE

 The present tense is the base form of the verb: I work in London.

But the third person (she/he/it) adds an -s: She works in London

 With the present tense, we use do and does to make questions We use does for the third person (she/he/it) and we use do for the

others

 With the present tense we use don’t and doesn’t to make negatives

We use does not (doesn’t) for the third person (she/he/it) and we use

do not (don’t) for the others

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S (I, We, You, They) Verb

S (He, She, It) Verb + s/es

S (I, We, You, They) Don’t Verb

S (He, She, It) Doesn’t Verb

Do/Don’t S (I, We, You, They) Verb? Does/Doesn’t S (He, She, It) Verb?

1. Something that is true in the present I’m nineteen years old.

He lives in London.

I’m a student

2 Something that happens again and again in the present:

I play football every weekend.

I sometimes go to the cinema.

She always plays tennis on Sunday.

3 Something that is always true:

The adult human body contains 206 bones.

Light travels at almost 300,000 kilometres per second

4 Something that is fixed in the future

The school term starts next week.

The train leaves at 19.45 this evening.

We fly to Paris next week

 Look at these questions:

Do you play the piano?

Where do you live?

Does Jack play football?

Where does he come from?

Do Rita and Angela live in Manchester?

Where do they work?

 But look at these questions with who:

Who lives in London?

Who plays football at the weekend?

Who works at Liverpool City Hospital?

 We use adverbs of frequency (like: sometimes, often, always, rarely, never

… ) with the present tense

HOW TO ADD S/ES

 Quy t c thêm đuôi s/ es ắ

từ

Ví d : get - getụ s, take - takes

Thêm -es

Ví d : miss - missụ es, wash - washes, watch - watches, mix -

mixes, do - does

Ví d : study - studụ ies

HOW TO PRONOUNCE S/ES

là /p/, /t/, /k/, /f/, /th/

Ví d : stopụ s , spots , looks , laughs  

Ví d : missụ es , rises , washes , watches , judges  

Ví d : cleanụ s , plays , clears , rides , comes 

 Team activity

 Individual activity: Choose the correct description

A True in the present

B Happens again and again

C Always true

D Fixed in the future

1 I do yoga twice a week.

2 The gate closes at 10.15

3 They usually pay the bills on time

4 Swallows fly south for the winter

5 The school holidays start on June 21st

6 He's still a teenager

7 The sun is 93 million miles from the Earth

8 She's a lawyer

9 The President speaks to the nation at 4pm

10 He never drinks beer

1 Give 5 examples with each present simple tense type