Ex. 1. Read the following sentences and explain why the Present Simple is used here. The prompts are given below.

Present Forms – Present Tenses (Active Voice). Revision.

Present Simple	1.A:I work / He,she,it works N: I don’t work /He,she,it doesn’t work Q: Do you work? Doeshe wor k _? 2. A: I am /you,we are /He,she,it is N: I am not /you,we are not /He,she,it is Q: Are you? Is he? 3.A: I have / He,she,it ha s N: I don’t have /He,she,it doesn’t ha ve Q: Do you have? Does he ha ve?
Present Continuous	Be +ing A:I am, you are, he, she, it is + playing N: I am not, you are not, it is not + playing Q: Am I, Are you, Is he + playing?
Present Perfect	Have + 3^rd form A: I have + done/written/built/worked He has + done/written/built/worked N: I have not + done/ written/ worked He has not + done/written/worked Q: Have you + done/written/worked? Has he + done/written/built/worked?
Present Perfect Continuous	Have been + V- ing A: I have been + working He has been + working N:I have not been + working He has not been + working Q: Have you been + working? Has he been + working?

Ex. 1. Read the following sentences and explain why the Present Simple is used here. The prompts are given below.

1. He works in a bank.

2. He takes the train to work every morning.

3. The sun sets in the west.

4. Time passes very quickly when you get older.

5. The plane from Brussels arrives at 8:30.

6. So what you do is … you read the questions first and then you write down your answers in the box. You don’t write on the question paper.

7. Alex doesn’t ring back at midnight … she waits till the morning to ring, and they get annoyed with Liz when she goes on … they know she’s got plenty of money by their standards…..

8. Peter overtakes Williams and wins the race.

9. Do you think that meat is ok to eat? / It doesn’t smell very good.

10. I will pay you back, I promise, when I get paid./ I agree with everything you say.

11. On behalf of the Society, and particularly those involved in medical work, I write to thank you for your kind gift of £20,000…./ I attach the original signed copies for your records.

12. Don’t forget to ring before you go. / They hope to move in to the new house as soon as they get back from Australia next month.

13. Man rescues child from lake.

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Timetables (planes, trains, etc) and plans (programmes); sports commentaries; general truths; laws of nature, facts; permanent states; repeated actions and daily routines; giving instructions or directions; summaries of stories of reviews (narration); newspaper headlines (to report past events); future references in subordinate clauses after words like when, after, if, as soon as, before; speech act verbs (swear, promise, declare, agree); business or legal communications, formal statements; immediate reactions (verbs of senses and perception).

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