This document provides information about simple present tense statements and questions in English. It includes examples of simple present statements using regular and irregular verbs, contractions, questions using do/does, and common time expressions used with simple present tense.

1. Simple Present
based on the book NewIntro-6 -We live in the suburbs
NewInterchange series, Cambridge.
Prof. MSc. Maura Xavier Garcia

2. Places - transportation

3. Get up
Wake up

8. Simple Present Statements
• I walk to school. • I don´t live far from
• You ride your bike to here.
school. • You don´t live near
• He works near here. here.
• She takes the bus to • He doesn´t work.
work. • She doesn´t drive to
• We live with our work.
parents. • We don´t live alone.
• They use public • They don´t need a
transportation. car.

9. Simple Present Statements with
irregular verbs
• I have a bike • It has a flat tire.
• We do our • My father does a
homework every lot of work at
day. home.
• My parents go to • My sister goes
work by car. to school by bus.

10. contractions
• Don´t = do not
• Doesn´t = does not

11. Simple present questions
• Do you get up early on • No, I get up late.
weekends?
• What time do you get
up? • At ten o´clock.
• Does he have breakfast • Yes, he eats
on Sundays? breakfast every day.
• What time does he have • At noon.
breakfast?
• Yes, they shop
• Do they shop together?
together a lot.
• When do they shop?
• On Saturdays.

12. Time expressions
• Early in the morning
• on Sundays at nine o´clock
• Late in the afternoon
• on weekends at noon/at
• Every day midnight
• on weekdays in the evening
at night