SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE IS USED:

 To express habits, general truths, repeated actions or unchanging situations, emotions and
wishes:
I smoke (habit); I work in London (unchanging situation); London is a large city (general truth)
 To give instructions or directions:
You walk for two hundred meters, then you turn left.
 To express fixed arrangements, present or future:
Your exam starts at 09.00
 To express future time, after some conjunctions: after, when, before, as soon as, until:
He'll give it to you when you come next Saturday.

EXAMPLES
 For habits
He drinks tea at breakfast.
She only eats fish.
They watch television regularly.
 For repeated actions or events
We catch the bus every morning.
It rains every afternoon in the hot season.
They drive to Monaco every summer.
 For general truths
Water freezes at zero degrees.
The Earth revolves around the Sun.
Her mother is Peruvian.
  For instructions or directions
Open the packet and pour the contents into hot water.
You take the No.6 bus to Watney and then the No.10 to Bedford.
 For fixed arrangements
His mother arrives tomorrow.
Our holiday starts on the 26th March
 With future constructions
She'll see you before she leaves.
We'll give it to her when she arrives.

Frequency Adverbs we use with the Present Simple

With the present simple we use these frequency adverbs:(Notice that the adverb comes before the main
verb in the sentence.)

Always: ‘I always read before I go to bed.’

Often: ‘Her sister often comes shopping with us.’

Frequently:‘Michael frequently visits his family.’

Sometimes:‘You sometimes go to the gym, don’t you?’

Occasionally:‘It occasionally rains in summer.’

Seldom:‘They seldom ask for help.’

Rarely: ‘He rarely goes out without his backpack.’

Hardly ever:‘I hardly ever eat pizza.’

Never: ‘Japanese people never wear shoes inside.’

Exercises
Affirmative:
1. I usually _go_______ (go) to school.
2. They _visit_______ (visit) us often.
3. You _play_______ (play) basketball once a week.
4. Tom _works_______ (work) every day.
5. He always _tells_______ (tell) us funny stories.
6. She never _helps_______ (help) me with that!
7. Martha and Kevin _swim_______ (swim) twice a week.
8. In this club people usually _dance_______ (dance) a lot.
9. Linda _takes care_______ (take care) of her sister.
10. John rarely _leaves_______ (leave) the country.
11. We _live_______ (live) in the city most of the year.
12. Lorie _travels_______ (travel) to Paris every Sunday.
13. I _bake_______ (bake) cookies twice a month.
14. You always _teach_______ (teach) me new things.
15. She _helps_______ (help) the kids of the neighborhood.
 Negative:
I _____don´t_______ like chicken.
My sister ____doesn´t________ eat pasta.
You _____don´t_______ buy apples.
The dog ____doesn´t________ bark.
My mom _____doesn´t_______ read comics.
Ann and I ____don´t________ go to school.
Cows _____don´t_______ live in the sea.
They ___don´t_________ play football.
My cat ___doesn´t_________ chase mice.
Her friend ____doen´t________ speak English.
This man ___doesn´t_________ smoke.
It ___doesn´t_________ run very fast.

Question: Arrange the words below to make questions, as in the example.

1. she / to collect / stickers - Does she collect stickers?
2. they / to play / a game – Do they play a game
3. the cat / to sleep / in the cat's bed – Does the cat sleep in the cat´s bed
4. she / often / to dream – Does she often dream
5. he / to play / streetball – Does he play streetball
6. you / to be / from Paris – Are you from Paris
7. the pupils / to wear / school uniforms – Do they wear school uniforms
8. you / to go / to the cinema – Do you go to the cinema
9. she / to have / friends – Does she have friends
10. he / to read / books – Does he read books