The simple present tense is used to describe habitual or repeated actions, general truths, and instructions. It is also used with time expressions like always, normally, or regularly. Examples include describing habits like drinking tea for breakfast, repeated actions like catching the bus every morning, general truths like water freezing at zero degrees, and instructions or directions like opening a packet and pouring contents into hot water. The document also provides special verb conjugations in the simple present tense for third person singular subjects like he, she, it.

1. Simple Present Tense
The simple present tense in English is used to describe an action
that is regular, true or normal.

2. Examples
For habits
He drinks tea at breakfast.
She only eats fish.
They watch television regularly.
For repeated actions or events
We catch the bus every morning.
It rains every afternoon in the hot season.
They drive to Monaco every summer.

3. For general truths
Water freezes at zero degrees.
The Earth revolves around the Sun.
Her mother is Peruvian.
For instructions or directions
Open the packet and pour the contents into hot water.
You take the No.6 bus to Watney and then the No.10 to Bedford.

4. Some special cases
He / she / it + Verb + S
close = closes play = plays study = studies go = goes
miss = misses
note = notes say = says marry = marries do = does
finish = finishes

5. Worksheet
1. I ________ (go) shopping with my brother.
2. We sometimes ________ (use) a dictionary in class.
3. My friends ________ (study) Italian at their school.
4.School ________ (finish) at three o ́clock.
5.He ________(like) rap music.