Progressive English
Enviado por valerialoparaujo • 8 de Marzo de 2015 • 479 Palabras (2 Páginas) • 123 Visitas
Simple Present Tense
When do we use the Simple Present tense?
We use the Simple Present to talk about actions that we often do or we don´t
This actions can be …
Hobbies
E.g.
I play Xbox every Sunday
My girl reads 1 book per month
We watch the soccer games every weekend
Habits
E.g.
I call my girl all nights
John doesn´t brush his teeth
Linda eats in that restaurant each Friday
Schedule events
E.g.
My cousin wakes up at 6:00 am
I run every days at 9 :00 am
I start to work at 7 : 00 am
How do we form the simple present tense?
Structures
Possitive structures
S + verb(infinitive form) + the context
E.g.
I play the guitar in the afternoons
You work in 7/11 in the nights
We study in Baird school
They jump in the bed all nights
Rules for the third person
For the third person(he, she, it) we have to add an “S” at the end of the verb(in some verbs).
E.g.
Susan travels to Europe each year
Jim eats pizza every weekend
Mike writes poems for his girlfriend
He plays “Master of puppets” in the guitar very well
Negative form
We use in the negative form, the auxiliary don´t for the personal pronouns: I, You, We They.
Structure S+don´t+verb(infinitive) + context
E.g.
I don´t play the piano in the school
We don´t like the sushi
They don´t speak english fluently
Negative form
We use in the negative form, the auxiliary doesn´t
...