This document presents an English grammar activity for high school students about the present simple tense. The purpose is to help students understand and practice the present simple tense through fill-in-the-blank exercises and forming interrogative sentences. The activity provides explanations of the present simple tense usages, forms in the affirmative, interrogative and negative, and spelling rules for third person singular verbs. Students are asked to fill in verbs in affirmative sentences and change given sentences to interrogative form to review the concepts covered in class.

1. Present Simple Tensewriting activityprepared by:Malak Al-Qahtani

2. The introduction of this activityI made this activity for writing skill for my high school students to clarify the simple present tense for them, and I used it at the end of the class as a review for the whole lecture.

3. A short explanation for the activity The purpose of this activity is to help the students to understand the simple present tense and usage of it.This activity will be at the end of the lecture as a revision for what we took in the class. this activity will be beneficial because it summaries for the whole lecture in a simple way and there some practices to evaluate the understanding of the students.

4. The Usages of the Present Simpleto expresses daily habits or usual activities .To expresses general statements in fact.

5. Present Simple, form:Affirmative Interrogative Negative I think Do I think?I do not think.You think Do you think ?You don't think.He, She, It think(s)Does he, she, it think ?He, she, it doesn't think.We think Do we think ?We don't think.you thinkDo you think ?You don't think.

6. Spelling rules 1The third person singular isformedby adding

7. Spelling rules 2Verbs ending in the third personchanges the ies.Fly-fliesCry-criesException:If there is a vowel before the :Play- playsPray- prays

8. Frequency adverbs …..Ex: I usually play with my friend .

10. Fill in the affirmative form of the verb.He …(play) the guitar.We …(dance) every Saturday.My friends… (speak) French.She… (watch) TV every evening.That boy… (study) English at school.They… (eat) eggs for breakfast.

11. The answers for question 1He plays the guitar.We danceevery Saturday.My friends speakFrench.She watchesTV every evening.That boy studiesEnglish at school.They eateggs for breakfast.

12. Make interrogative sentences.She/ speak/ French.ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــThe banks/ close/ at 4 o’clock.ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــYou/ like/ chocolate.ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــYour sister/ work/ here.ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ

13. The answers for question 2She/ speak/ French.Does she speak French?The banks/ close/ at 4 o’clock.Do the banks close at 4 o’clock.You/ like/ chocolate.Do you like chocolate?Your sister/ work/ here.Does your sister work here?