PRESENT SIMPLE 1 She lives in London Facts
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PRESENT SIMPLE 1. She lives in London. • Facts 2. They usually take the bus to work. • Habits and repeated actions 3. She doesn’t like this kind of music. • To talk about thoughts or feelings (what we like, want, think or know) 4. The film starts at 8: 30. • For the future, to talk about events on a timetable
FORMS OF THE PRESENT SIMPLE • POSITIVE: I/you/we/they he/she/it knows • NEGATIVE: I/you/we/they he/she/it do not know / don’t know does not know / doesn’t know • QUESTIONS: do does I/you/we/they know he/she/it know
PRESENT CONTINUOUS 1. What are you doing now? • something happening at the moment of speaking 2. Jim is staying with his parents this week. • something happening around now but not necessarily at this exact moment 3. Is your English getting better? • changes happening around now 4. I’m meeting some friends tonight • fixed plan for the future
FORMS OF THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS • POSITIVE I you/we/they he/she/it am/’m starting are/’re starting is/’s starting • NEGATIVE I you/we/they he/she/it am not/’m not starting are not/’re not/aren’t starting is not/’s not/isn’t starting • QUESTIONS Am I Are you/we/they Is he/she/it starting
PRESENT CONTINUOUS AND PRESENT SIMPLE PRESENT CONTINUOUS - The water is boiling. Can you turn it off? - Let’s go out. It isn’t raining now. - What are you doing? - The population of the world is increasing very fast. TEMPORARY SITUATIONS - I’m living with some friends until I find a place of my own. - You’re working hard today. PRESENT SIMPLE - Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius. - It doesn’t rain very much in summer. - What do you usually do at weekends? - Every day the population of the world increases by about 200 000 people. PERMANENT SITUATIONS - My parents live in London. - John works hard most of the time.
SOME VERBS DESCRIBE STATES AND DO NOT NORMALLY HAVE CONTINUOUS FORMS: I like French films. (NOT I’m liking French films) Some verbs describe states and are usually only used in the Present Simple: • Verbs of thinking (e. g. believe, think, understand, know, seem, mean) • Verbs of emotions (e. g. like, love, hate, wish, want, hope) • Verbs of possession (e. g. belong, have, own, contain, cost) • Verbs of the senses (e. g. look, hear, taste, smell, feel)