This document provides information about using the present simple tense in English. It discusses how the present simple is used to express habitual actions, general truths, and permanent situations. It also notes some uses with planned future actions. The document then explains how to form the present simple in affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences. It concludes by listing adverbs of frequency that are commonly used with the present simple tense.
2. USOSUSOS
Para expresar acciones que ocurren habitualmente,
con una determinada frecuencia (hábitos, rutinas...).
Me levanto a las 8 todas las mañanas.
I get up at eight o'clock every morning.
Para expresar hechos o verdades generales.
La tierra gira alrededor del sol.
The Earth goes around the Sun.
Para expresar situaciones permanentes.
Él vive en Londres.
He lives in London.
Para hablar de acciones futuras ya planificadas.
Me voy de Madrid mañana por la mañana.
I leave Madrid tomorrow morning.
4. AFIRMATIVOAFIRMATIVO
I live in London. Lions eat meat.
You like reading comics.
En las terceras personas del singular añade una “s” al verbo
He plays football. Alice comes to school by bus
My dog sleeps in the garden.
Si el verbo acaba en "s"-"sh"-"ch"-"x" o "z"
en las terceras persona del singular añade "es".
Si el verbo acaba en "y" precedida de
consonante cambia la “y” en “i” y añade "es".
My brother watches TV at night. His kite flies very high.
Sujeto + Infinitivo sin “to”Sujeto + Infinitivo sin “to”
5. NEGATIVONEGATIVO
I don't live in London. Lions don't eat grass.
You don't like reading books.
En las terceras personas del singular:
Sujeto + doesn't + infinitivo sin “to”
He doesn't play football.
Alice doesn't come to school by car.
doesn't = does not
My dog doesn't sleep in the kitchen.
don't = do not
Sujeto + don't + Infinitivo sinSujeto + don't + Infinitivo sin
“to”“to”
6. ENGLISHENGLISHE.E. SecundariaSecundaria PRESENT SIMPLEPRESENT SIMPLE
INTERROGATIVOINTERROGATIVO
Do I live in London? Do lions eat grass?
Do you like reading books?
En las terceras personas del singular:
Does + Sujeto + infinitivo sin “to” + ...?
Does he play football?
Does my dog sleep in the kitchen?
Does Alice come to school by car?
Do + Sujeto + Infinitivo sin “to”Do + Sujeto + Infinitivo sin “to”
+ ...?+ ...?
7. ADVERBIOSADVERBIOS
DEDE
FRECUENCIAFRECUENCIA
always > siempre
often > a menudo, con frecuencia
usually > generalmente
sometimes > algunas veces
never > nunca
Se colocan siempre delante
del verbo principal.
Si el verbo es “to be”,
van detrás de él.
I always live in London.She never walks alone.
Do you often study at night?
They are usually at home.
10. 1. Every Monday, Sally (drive)____________her kids to football practice.
2. I (work) ___________as a secretary at ABT, but this summer I (study)
___________French at a language school in Paris. That is why I am in
Paris.
3. John (sleep) _________
4. I hate living in Seattle because it (rain, always) _________
5. Justin (write, currently)_______________a book about his adventures in
Tibet. I hope he can find a good publisher when he is finished
6. Jim: Do you want to come over for dinner tonight?
Denise: Oh, I'm sorry, I can't. I (go) _______________to a movie tonight
with some friends
7. The business cards (be, normally ) ______________printed by a company
in New York. Their prices (be) ____________inexpensive, yet the quality
of their work is quite good.
8. This delicious chocolate (be) ____________made by a small chocolatier
in Zurich, Switzerland.
WRITE THE FOLLOWING VERBS IN PRESENT SIMPLE
