• THE SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE IS USED: 

• To express habits, general truths, repeated actions or unchanging situations, emotions and wishes:

  I smoke (habit); I work in London (unchanging situation); London is a large city (general truth)

• To give instructions or directions:

  You walk for two hundred meters, then you turn left.

• To express fixed arrangements, present or future:

  Your exam starts at 09.00

• To express future time, after some conjunctions: after, when, before, as soon as, until:
  He’ll give it to you when you come next Saturday.

The time tenses:

• everyday

• in the morning

• every afternoon

• once a week

• always

• usually

• sometimes

• never

• every Friday

Spelling rules:

• if verb ends with: (ch,sh,ss,x,o) we add “es” .

  example: watch…watches

• if verb ends with y  we change the “y” to “i” and add “es”

  example: fly … flies

• exception:  if there is a vowel before the “y” we just add “s”:

  example: play .. plays

Negative :

The pronoun + dodoes + not + base form …

examples :

• I don’t like pizza

• You don’t speak loudly

• He doesn’t run fast

• She doesn’t eat breakfast

• We don’t buy sweets

• You don’t swim in winter

• They don’t live in Israel

Yes, No questions:

Do does + the pronoun + base form … ?

examples :

• Do I know her ?

• Do you live in Israel ?

• Do we need help ?

• Do they drive to work ?

• Does Gill play basektball ?

• Does Sara fix cars ?

• Does it snow in Haifa ?

Wh-questions :

wh questions + dodoes + the pronoun + base form …?

examples :

• Where do you work ?

• What do you do ?

• When do you leave home ?

• How do you get to work ?

• Why do you go by bus ?

• Who works with you ?

• Where does your mother work ?

• What does your mother do ?

• When does your mother get to work ?

• Why does your mother go by mother ?