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    This document provides information about the present simple tense in English, including its form, uses, and question and negative forms. It begins by explaining that the present simple tense is used to describe habitual or repeated actions, facts, and permanent situations. It then gives examples of its use and discusses how to form questions and negative sentences in the present simple tense based on the subject. The objectives are to teach students the present simple tense form, its common uses, and how to make questions and negative sentences using it.

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    This document provides information about the present simple tense in English, including its form, uses, and question and negative forms. It begins by explaining that the present simple tense is used to describe habitual or repeated actions, facts, and permanent situations. It then gives examples of its use and discusses how to form questions and negative sentences in the present simple tense based on the subject. The objectives are to teach students the present simple tense form, its common uses, and how to make questions and negative sentences using it.

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    CONTENT

    Form of Present Simple Tense


    Uses of Present Simple
    Question Form
    Negative Form
    Objectives
    .Students will learn the form of Present Simple
    Students will recognize and practice uses of Present
    .Simple
    Students will recognize how to use negative and
    .question forms in the present simple
    Present Simple Tense
    Form: subject+ verb (infinitive)
    Each verb in English has three forms
    Infinitive past past participle
    Go went gone
    Write wrote written

    .I go to the college on Mondays


    .We get up at 8 o`clock every morning
    .You are good students
    .They play tennis every evening
    .Sam and Peter study English everyday
    .You like playing football
    Uses of Present Simple Tense
    We use the present simple to talk about things in
    general. We use it to say that something happens all
    the time or repeatedly, or that something is true in
    . general
    For example
    .Nurses look after patients in hospitals
    .I usually go away at the weekends
    Facts
    .The earth goes round the sun

    .Elephants live in India and Africa

    .Bees make honey

    .The Mississippi flows into gulf of Mexico


    Repeated Actions
    .I get up at 7:00 most days
    Jennifer often has coffee at 11:00
    . I have my breakfast at seven o`clock
    .I go to the college on Mondays
    Use the present simple for permanent
    .situations
    .I live in London
    .John is not lazy. He works very hard most of the time
    I have three brothers
    .Mona lives in Chicago
    In newspaper headlines .
    If the subject is (he, she, or it)
    .we must add (es) (ies) or (s)to the main verb
     We add (es) to the main verb if it ends in
    (s, ss, ch, sh, o, x, z)
    She always finishes her homework at six o`clock.
    He goes to school everyday.
    Mona sometimes misses her bus.
    Fatima often watches TV in the evening.
    If the main verb ends in( consonant + Y ). We omit (Y) and
    we add (ies). For example
     cry ---- cries
     fly----- flies
     try------tries
     Ahmed always tries to learn English
    IF NOT, we add only (s)
    Ahmed likes reading stories.
    Aisha always plays tennis on Fridays
    Negative form
    .We use ( do not) or ( does not) before the main verb
    We use ( do not) if the subject is ( I, we, you or they)
    .I live in London. I do not live in London
    They work hard every day. They do not work hard every
    .day
    We use ( does not) before the main verb if the subject is ( he,
    she, it). ( s,es, ies) will be removed
    She plays tennis on Saturdays. She does not play tennis
    .on Saturdays
    She studies French every day. She does not study French
    .every day
    Question Form
    .We use ( Do) or (Does) at the beginning of the question
    We use ( Do) if the subject in the sentence is ( I, we, you
    or they)
    .They work hard every day. Do they work hard every day
    She plays tennis every day. Does she play tennis every
    .day
    the subject is ( he, she, it) We use ( Does) if
    References
    • Walker, E. & Elsworth, S. (2000) Grammar Practice for Upper
    Intermediate Students. Pearson Education Limited.
    Thank you

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