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    This document provides information about the simple present tense in English. It discusses the patterns and functions of the simple present tense, including using it to describe habitual or repeated actions, schedules, and general truths. It provides examples of affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences using verbs like "like" and the verb "to be." It also discusses time signals commonly used with the simple present tense, like everyday, every week, usually. The document asks students to identify the tense of example sentences and correct sentences that are in the wrong tense.

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    This document provides information about the simple present tense in English. It discusses the patterns and functions of the simple present tense, including using it to describe habitual or repeated actions, schedules, and general truths. It provides examples of affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences using verbs like "like" and the verb "to be." It also discusses time signals commonly used with the simple present tense, like everyday, every week, usually. The document asks students to identify the tense of example sentences and correct sentences that are in the wrong tense.

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    This document provides information about the simple present tense in English. It discusses the patterns and functions of the simple present tense, including using it to describe habitual or repeated actions, schedules, and general truths. It provides examples of affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences using verbs like "like" and the verb "to be." It also discusses time signals commonly used with the simple present tense, like everyday, every week, usually. The document asks students to identify the tense of example sentences and correct sentences that are in the wrong tense.

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    What do you

    do?
    Simple Present Tense
    Learning
    Outcome
    ● Understanding the patterns and
    functions of simple present

    ● Speaking and writing using the right


    tense

    ● Telling about daily activities


    What type of person are you?

    A B
    Let’s read this text

    There are two kinds of people. One kind likes to get up early in the morning. The
    other kind likes to stay in bed.
    Art Johnson is the first kind. He gets up early, brushes his teeth, shaves, takes a
    shower, combs his hair, and gets dressed. He has enough time to eat a good
    breakfast and walk to the collage.
    Carl Morgan is his roommate, likes to stay in bed. He does the same things Art
    Johnson does when he gets up, but he does them in hurry. He runs. He is usually
    late.
    Write down what they do in the morning. (in a
    complete sentence)
    What Art Johnson does What Carl Morgan does What I do

    • He gets up early in the • I usually get up at 4 in


    morning the morning
    There are important exceptions :

    • For positive sentences, we do not normally use


    the auxiliary.
    • For the 3rd person singular (he, she, it), we
    add s to the main verb or es to the auxiliary.
    • For the verb to be, we do not use an auxiliary,
    even for questions and negatives.
    Look at these examples with
    the main verb like
    subject auxiliary main verb
    verb
    + I, you, we, like coffee.
    they
    He, she, it likes coffee.
    - I, you, we, Do not like coffee.
    they
    He, she, it Does not like coffee.
    :
    ? Do I, you, we, like coffee?
    they
    Does he, she, it like coffee?
    Look at these examples with the main verb be.
    Notice that there is no auxiliary:

    Subject main verb


    + I am French.
    You, we, they are French.
    He, she, it is French.
    - I am not old.
    You, we, they are not old.
    He, she, it is not old.
    ? Am I late?
    Are you, we, they late?
    Is he, she, it late?
    Use of simple Present tense
    ❑ To express general truth, it means that something was true in the
    past, is true in the present, and will probably be true in the future.
    Water consists of Hydrogen and oxygen

    ❑ To express habitual action or repeated activity


    She wakes up at five every morning
    I usually go to campus every Monday and Tuesday

    ❑ To describe schedule or program in near future


    The train leaves Tasikmalaya at seven tonight
    Time Signal of Simple Present Tense
    Always ▪ read books
    Often ▪ draw pictures
    ▪ play games
    Seldom ▪ do exercises
    There ▪ have lunch
    Usually ▪ surf the net
    Never ▪ do homework
    Sometimes ▪ listen to music
    Everyday ▪ ride a bicycle drive a
    Every (monday) car
    Every week ▪ drink fruit juice
    ▪ watch tv
    Every month ▪ sleep
    Decide the function of the sentences
    General truth, habits, or schedule
    1. She always brushes her teeth in the morning.
    2. How many times do Mike and Kim play soccer a week?
    3. Our office closes at 7:00 p.m.
    4. Harry is an internists. He works in one of the biggest hospitals in
    town.
    5. The River Nile flows into the Mediterranean.
    6. Jack, you are very careless. You always forget to do your homework!
    7. Gregory is a vegetarian. He does not eat meat.
    8. There are two flights to Bali this afternoon. The Batik Airways flight
    leaves at 13:00 and the Garuda Airways leaves at 22:00.
    9. Lucia and Kim usually remind me to leave home early on Mondays.
    10. Jim’s father is a teacher. He teaches English.
    Put in the verbs in brackets into the gaps. Use Simple Present
    Identify the incorrect parts on the following sentences
    and correct them.

    1. Lucia and Kim usually reminds me to leave home early on


    Mondays.
    2. Why does not Peter remember his children’s birthday?
    3. The River Nile is flowing into the Mediterranean.
    4. My brothers, Mark and Noah, goes to primary school.
    5. Jim’s father is a teacher. He teach English.
    6. Astronauts on the International Space Station has a busy
    schedule.
    THANK
    YOU

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