Present simple (I do,work….)
- Study these situations:
-I drive to work every day .
-I like big cities
-The games usually start at 8:00 pm.
-What do you usually have for breakfast?
– Paul is a bus driver, but now he is at home.
Drive(s)/like(s)/start(s)/have(has)/ is , etc. are : present simple
We use the present simple to talk about things in general. We use it to say that something happens all the time,sometimes or repeatedly, or that something is true in general:
-Nurses look after patients in hospital.
-The shops open at 9 o’clock and close at 6:30
-I usually go away at weekends.
– Akbar works very hard . He starts at 8:00 and finishes
at 9:00 o’clock in the evening.
-The earth goes round the sun.
-The café opens at 7:30 in the morning.
Remember:
-I/we/you/they : read, like, open, live, watch, do, have…
–But He/she/it : reads, likes, opens, lives, wathes, does has …
With : always, never, often, sometimes, usually :
-she usually goes to work by car . (not: she goes usually)
-Mark always arrives at work too late .
-Susanne never wathes footbal.
-john lives near susanne .She often see him.
–Smetimes Tom is late but it doesn’t happen very often.
We use do/does to make question and negative sentences:
–Do you work in the evening ?
–Do you play tennis ?
–Do your parents speak English?
–Does your sister live in London?
– Where do you come from?
–How often do you wash your hair?
– What does this word mean?
– What do you do ?
-I don’t drink coffee.
-Rice doesn’t grow in cold climates.
– I don’t like washing the car.
-Mark doesn’t like Susanne.
– Susanne doesn’t do her job very well.
-Kate doesn’t usually have breakfast.
Exercice on text:
What do you have to eat? the boy asked.
A pot of yellow rice with fish. Do you want some?
No. I will eat at home. Do you want me to make the fire?
No. I will make it later on. Or I may eat the rice cold.
May I take the cast net?
Of course.
There was no cast net and the boy remembered when they had sold it. But they went through this fiction every day. There was no pot of yellow rice and fish and the boy knew this too.
Eighty-five is a lucky number, the old man said. How would you like to see me bring one in that dressed out over a thousand pounds?
I’ll get the cast net and go for sardines. Will you sit in the sun in the doorway?
Yes. I have yesterday’s paper and I will read the baseball.
The boy did not know whether yesterday’s paper was a fiction too. But the old man brought it out from under the bed.
Perico gave it to me at the bodega, he explained. I’ll be back when I have the sardines. I’ll keep yours and mine together on ice and we can share them in the morning. When I come back you can tell me about the baseball.
The Yankees can not lose.
But I fear the Indians of Cleveland.
Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.
I fear both the Tigers of Detroit and the Indians of Cleveland.
Be careful or you will fear even the Reds of Cincinnati and the White Sax of Chicago.
You study it and tell me when I come back.
Do you think we should buy a terminal of the lottery with an eighty-five? Tomorrow is the eighty-fifth day.
We can do that, the boy said. »But what about the eighty-seven of your great record?
It could not happen twice. Do you think you can find an eighty-five?