The document provides information about using the simple present tense to talk about habits, routines, and frequent activities. It gives examples of using the simple present tense in the third person singular for both affirmative and negative statements. It also provides examples of questions formed in the simple present tense. Finally, it discusses using "it takes" constructions to talk about how long an activity takes.

1. Simple Present Tense
What are you doing
tomorrow?
I’m taking my dad to a
doctor’s appointment
tomorrow.
We can use the present progressive tense to talk about
the immediate future.
am/are/is verb (+ing)
Philip is spending Christmas with his folks in Colorado
this year.

2. Simple Present Tense
Habits / Routines / Frequent Activities
Examples in 3rd person Singular affirmative
• Hector lives in Hialeah and studies Portuguese at Miami Dade
College.
• He usually gets up at 6:30 in the morning and takes a shower.
• After breakfast, He drives to work at 7:30.
• He works until 12pm and then goes to lunch for an hour.
• His class ends at 8:30pm.
• After that, he goes back home and watches tv for a while and
has dinner.
• Finally, He goes to bed at around 11pm and starts over the next
day.

3. Simple Present Tense
Habits / Routines / Frequent Activities
Examples in 3rd person Singular affirmative
He/She/it verb+s

4. Simple Present Tense
Habits / Routines / Frequent Activities
Examples in 3rd person Singular negative
He doesn’t /She doesn’t /it doesn’t +verb
Imelda doesn’t speak Spanish (neg). She only speaks English.(pos)
My car doesn’t have a GPS (neg) but it is has a rear view camera (pos).

5. Simple Present Tense
Habits / Routines / Frequent Activities
Examples in 3rd person Singular Questions
What time does Hector get up at?
Where does Hector work?
How often does Betty go to the gym? She goes to the gym twice a
week.

6. Simple Present Tense
Habits / Routines / Frequent Activities
How long does it take someone to get to
work?
It takes someone (min/hours/days) to do
something.

7. Simple Present Tense
It takes someone (min/hours/days) to do
something.
Ex.
It takes Sebastian an hour to get to work.
It takes me 20 minutes to get dressed.
It takes Dr. Ellison 20 minutes to get to the
hospital

8. Simple Present Tense
Ask questions about the dialogues
What time?
Where?
How often?
How long?
What?
Which?
When?

9. Simple Present Tense
Ask questions about the dialogues
What time?
Where?
How often?
How long?
What?