PRESENT SIMPLE

The present tense us the base form of the verb: I work in London.
But the third person (she/he/it) adds an s: She works in London.


USE

We use the present tense to talk about:

Something that is true in the present:
Im nineteen years old
He lives in London
Im a student

Something that happens again and again in the present:
I play football every weekend.

We use words like sometimes, often, always and never (adverbs of
frequency) with the present tense:

I sometimes go to the cinema.
She never plays football.

Something that is always true:
The adult human body contains 206 bones.
Light travels at almost 300,000 kilometres per second.

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.



QUESTIONS AND NEGATIVES

Look at these questions:

Do you play the piano?
Where do you live?
Does Jack play football?
Where does he come from?

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

We use do and does with question words like where, what and why.
But look at these questions with who:
Who lives in London?
Who plays football at the weekend?
Who works at Liverpool City Hospital?
Look at these sentences:
I like tennis, but I dont like football. (dont=do not)
I dont live in London now.
John doesnt live in Manchester. (doesnt= does not)
Angela doesnt drive to work. She goes by bus.
*With the present tense we use do and does to make negatives. We use does not
(doesnt) for the third person (she/he/it) and we use do not (dont) for the others.



Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verb.
1. Susie ___________ tennis every Saturday. (play)
2. The flight ___________off every forty minutes. (take)
3. Tom and Ana ___________ in the Church. (sing)
4. Luis _________ the onions. (chop)
5. Where _________ she _________? (work)
6. She __________ in the morning. (not/run)
7. They _________ the exam next month. (take)
8. She always ________ coffee at night. (drink)
9. What time _________you ________up? (get)
10. He ___________ how to cook. (not/know)
11. The match __________at 10:00 am tomorrow. (start)
12. _________ she _________Spanish on weekends? (study)
13. They usually __________ something new in classes. (learn)
14. Elephants _________ in Africa. (live)
15. He __________vegetables. (not/eat)
16. Erick and Linda __________ to shopping every Tuesday.(go)
17. Rosy __________a lot. (not/travel)
18. I ____________Italian. (not/speak)
19. They __________computers. (not/repair)
20. _________ Marlene __________a Ferrari? (drive)
21. Who __________ the guitar? (play)
22. Who __________ the French exams? (revise)
23. ________you ________ the meaning of habibi in Arabic? (know)
24. ________he really ________you? (love)
25. She ________ a new cell phone. (have)

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