This presentation simplifies the rules of the present tense. It makes it accessible through using examples from students’ environment and pinpointing songs they might have heard.

1. SIMPLE PRESENT
Khouloud Khammassi

2. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
-Does the sentence above
express a fact?
-Yes.
-Is it a habit? Does the sun rise
and set everyday.
-Yes.

3. - Which tense did we use?
- The Simple Present (/The Present Simple).
Present Simple - - - > habits & facts

4. Verb structure
I, we, you, they: base infinitive (/bare infinitive)
he, she, it: base infinitive + s ❗he, she, it + es / ies
🔵 Verbs + es
go
finiSh
watch + es ♣️ Verbs ending in o, sh, ch, ss, x, z + es
miss
fax
Buzz
🔵 Verbs + ies
Play / plAys (vowel + y --> no change)
Study / stuDies (consonant + y --> ies)

5. Negative Form
We don’t do it.
"Don’t worry; be happy." Bob Marley
Don't + infinitive (I we they you)
"Love doesn’t ask why." Celine Dion
Doesn't + infinitive (he she it)

6. Question Structure
(When) do you speak English?
(When) do you speak English?
(w/h) do subject infinitive object?
(w/h) does subject infinitive object?
❗he, she, it + does
❗you, they, we, I + do

7. Khouloud Khammassi
“Examples are rules.”