PRESENT SIMPLE AND PRESENT CONTINUOUS PRESENT SIMPLE Use

PRESENT SIMPLE AND PRESENT CONTINUOUS

PRESENT SIMPLE: Use (upotreba): Repeated Actions (radnje koje se ponavljaju) I play tennis every day. She always forgets her purse. Facts or Generalizations (opće poznate činjenice ili istine): Dogs do not like milk. California is in America. Future scheduled actions (buduće radnje koje su dio nekog rasporeda) The train leaves at 7. School starts in september.

PRESENT SIMPLE: Form (način tvorbe): Verb (glagol u infinitivu) + s/es in the third person singular (treće lice jednine) I sleep in the same bed every night. He sleeps in the same bed every night.

PRESENT SIMPLE: *** es is added in third person positive of verbs ending with the following sounds(es se dodaje u trećem licu jednine kada riječ završava na): s, z, sh, ch, j or ss I rush – he/she/ it rushes I watch – he watches I pass – he/she/ it passes

BE CAREFUL! *** Verbs ending in – y (glagoli koji završavaju na y a ispred njih je suglasnik se mijenjanju u ie u trećem licu jednine). fly – flies cry – cries Ako je ispred samoglasnik onda se ništa ne mijenja: play – plays pray – prays

PRESENT SIMPLE : Negative form: I don’t sleep You don’t sleep He, she, it DOESN’T sleep We don’t sleep You don’t sleep They don’t sleep

PRESENT SIMPLE : Question form: Do I sleep? Do you sleep? DOES he, she, it sleep? Do we sleep? Do you sleep? Do they sleep?

PRESENT SIMPLE : ZAPAMTITI: s/es u trećem licu jednine dodajemo SAMO u potvrdnom obliku ( He sleeps, ali ne može biti he doesn’t sleeps nego he doesn’t sleep)

PRESENT SIMPLE: Every – day, Monday, week On – Friday, the weekend Always, usually, often, sometimes, rarely, ever, never Example: He visits his grandmother every week. I always go to school on my bike.

PRESENT CONTINUOUS: USE 1: to express the idea that something is happening now or around the time of speaking (kada se nešto događa SADA). He is learning English now. They are reading their books at the moment.

PRESENT CONTINUOUS: USE 2: to talk about arranged actions in the future (kada sami nešto isplaniramo) We are leaving tonight.

PRESENT CONTINUOUS : FORM – verb to be (I am, you are, he/she/it is, we are, you are, they are) + ing form – am sleeping I am watching tv. You/we/they are watching tv. He/she/it is watching tv.

BE CAREFUL! y se ne mijenja kada dodajemo ing oblik – flying, playing, ali: ako glagol završava na e a ispred njega je suglasnik onda e mičemo prije nego što dodamo ing oblik – write – writing smile – smiling

BE CAREFUL! Kada riječ završava suglasnikom(consonant) a prije njega se nalazi samoglasnik(vowel), onda suglasnik duplamo, prije nego dodamo ing oblik: Put – putting Hit – hitting Sit - sitting

PRESENT CONTINUOUS : Singular: 1. I am not sleeping 2. You are not sleeping 3. He/she/ it is not sleeping Plural 1. We are not sleeping 2. You are not sleeping 3. They are not sleeping

PRESENT CONTINUOUS : Singular: 1. Am I sleeping? 2. Are you sleeping? 3. Is he/she/ it sleeping? Plural: 1. Are we sleeping? 2. Are you sleeping? 3. Are they sleeping

PRESENT CONTINUOUS : Now/ right now At the moment Currently (trenutno) At the present Today This – week, month, summer

EXERCISE: 1. Every Monday, Sally practise. (drive) her kids to football 2. Justin (write, currently) a book about his adventures in Tibet. 3. Shhhhh! Be quiet! John (sleep).

4. It never (rain) in the dessert. 5. She (go) to the beach now. 6. I (excercise) every afternoon. 7. They (build) a new hotel at the present.

8. Mary never 9. I can’t go now. I 10. (help) her mother. (cook) dinner. books in your free time? (you, read)

ANSWERS: 1. drives 2. is currently writing 3. is sleeping 4. rains 5. is going 6. excercise 7. are building 8. helps 9. am cooking 10. Do you read

CORRECT THE MISTAKES 1. I am living in India. 2. Look, it rains. 3. She is coming from Bjelovar. 4. He visit from Paris this week.

CORRECT THE MISTAKES 5. They build a home next to mine. 6. She flys to Russia every year. 7. He is writeing his big novel. 8. They are siting in the back.

CORRECT THE MISTAKES 9. They always hammer next door. 10. She dosn't act very well. 11. The weather isn't geting any warmer. 12. I am smelling something burning.

ANSWERS: 1. I live in India (I live there every day, in general). 2. Look, it is raining (NOW, I can see it) 3. She comes from ( in general) 4. He is visiting (THIS week – pc) 5. They are building (NOW) 6. flies 7. writing 8. sitting

ANSWERS: 9. They are always hammering ( pc - we are annoyed by it) 10. doesn't 11. getting (double t) 12. smell ( verb of the senses, not used with pc)