Present simple

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The Present Simple

When do you get up on school days?

What is your bedtime?

How often do you play sports a week?

1. I play sports every day.
2. I play sports once a week.
3. I play sports 3-4 times a week.
4. I never play sports.

Use 

Present Simple

I/you/we/they work

he/she/it works 

Vragen

Do I you/we/they work?

Does he/she/it work?

Ontkenning

I/you/we/they do not work

He/she/ it does not work

When to use?

Routines

I have breakfast every morning and I play football every week. 

Habits 

I always have a croissant for breakfast.

Permanent situations

Miss Vijgeboom teaches English at school.

Signal words: always, every, never, often, usually, sometimes, on Mondays, every day

Make a sentence with a habit (gewoonte) of yours

Exercises

Time to practice! 

Fill in the correct verbs in the following sentences. Use a negative when necessary.

Mary often                           her brother.

She                             in Belgium.

Grace                           out to visit her friends.

Airplanes                           a lot of noise.

The sun                           in the east.

I                          at 7 in the morning.

Jack                           a lot of chocolate.

My train                           at 3 o'clock.

They                          a nice car.

leaves

goes

wake up

lives

eats

visits

make

rises

have

Are the following sencentes gramatically correct?

1. Nobody live in this house.

1. correct
2. incorrect

2. Do Freda and Graham live in that house?

1. correct
2. incorrect

3. He doesn't write books.

1. correct
2. incorrect

4. Does your wife speaks Dutch?

1. correct
2. incorrect

5. Does he eat too many sweets?

1. correct
2. incorrect

6. Everybody know my father.

1. correct
2. incorrect