This presentation will help ESOL tutors go through the Present Simple Tense in detail

1. B E G I N N E R / E L E M E N T A R Y
B Y M A L I K A H A K I M O V A
PRESENT SIMPLE
TENSE

2. DURING THIS LESSON YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO
USE PRESENT SIMPLE TO TALK ABOUT:
• Your daily routines
• What you do at work
• What you do in your free time

3. FIRST, LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING
SENTENCES.
WHAT DO THEY HAVE IN COMMON?
a) I usually get up at 7 am every morning.
b) You always spend most of your time with your
children.
c) In the evenings she reads books.
d) They often watch TV after dinner.

4. You are right!
Well done!
These sentences tell us about our everyday activities or routines.
Now pay attention to the structure of the sentences.
What did you notice?

5. Well done!
They all have action verbs:
get up, spend, read, watch

7. WHAT IS PRESENT SIMPLE?
We use Present Simple Tense
1)to talk about activities that we do again and again(every
day/week/month/year, always, usually, sometimes, often,
seldom).
Ex: We work here every day.
They always try to wake up early in the mornings.

8. WHAT IS PRESENT SIMPLE?
2) to talk about facts or something that is always true
Ex: The adult human body contains 206 bones.
The Earth goes round the Sun

9. STATEMENTS
• I work
• You work
• He/she/it works
• We work
• You work
• They work

10. SPELLING RULES FOR HE/SHE/IT
• I work/play/live
• I watch/finish/go/do
• I study
• He works/plays/lives
• She watches/finishes/
goes/does
• She studies

11. NOW, YOU TURN:
FILL IN THE GAPS WITH THE SUITABLE VERBS
(PLAY, STAY, WALK, READ):
• We…….. to college every day.
• They ……… in the playground every evening.
• He ……… at 6 am every morning.

12. QUESTIONS
WE NEED AN AUXILIARY (DO/DOES) TO FORM QUESTIONS:
Questions
• Do I work?
• Do you work?
• Does he/she/it work?
• Do we work?
• Do you work?
• Do they work?
Short answers
• Yes, I do/No, I don’t
• Yes, you do/No, you don’t
• Yes, he does/No, she
doesn’t
• Yes, we do/No, we don’t
• Yes, they do/No, they
don’t

13. NEGATIVES
WE NEED AN AUXILIARY (DO/DOES) + NOT TO FORM NEGATIVES
• We do not (don’t) play tennis at weekends.
• They do not (don’t) stay with us during holidays.
• I do not (don’t) like fizzy drinks.
Please, note:
She/he/it does not (doesn’t) like fizzy drinks.

14. NOW, YOUR TURN:
FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH THE SUITABLE AUXILIARY
(DO/DOES)
• She ………not like sweets.
• We ………not know how to get to the bank.
• ………she know how to use the computer?
• …….you work in a college?

15. RESOURCES:
1.
http://learningenglishvocabularygrammar.com/grammar/gr
ammar-pdf/action-verbs-action-words
2.
http://learningenglishvocabularygrammar.com/grammar/gr
ammar-pdf/action-verbs-action-words