Loop 1 A2

PRESENT SIMPLE

It's time to hit the road!!!

PRESENT SIMPLE

It is used to talk about:

• Likes and Preferences

• Facts

• Routines

• Timetables

Multiple Choice

Present simple is used to:

• talk about past events

• talk about preferences and routines

• talk about future

• talk about predictions

Open Ended

Write a short sentence about what you like or don't like.

PRESENT SIMPLE POSITIVE SENTENCES.

• SANDRA HATES IRONING

• HERNAN LIKES EXPENSIVE CARS

• FABIAN, JESSICA AND ALEJANDRA ENJOY EATING CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM.

PRESENT SIMPLE NEGATIVE SENTENCES

• ALEJANDRA DOESN'T LIKE RUNNING.

• FAVIAN AND JESSICA DON'T ENJOY CLEANING.

Open Ended

Write these sentences in negative ways:

1. I like eating pizza

2. He minds cleaning his house.

PRESENT SIMPLE QUESTIONS

• WH QUESTIONS: What do you like doing in your free time?

• YES / NO QUESTIONS: Do they like swimming?

Open Ended

Answer the next questions:

1. How often do you eat pizza?

2. Do you enjoy watching T.V.?

PRESENT SIMPLE

KEY WORDS

• ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY: always, never, seldom, rarely, sometimes, usually, often.

• EVERY: Every day, every weekend

Rules

• In 3rd persons (She, He, It) in affirmative sentences we must add "s" to the main verb of the sentence. There are some exeptions which will be analized later.

  Mark lives in New York

• Negative sentences are made with DON'T & DOESN'T which is the negative form of the auxiliary verb.

  I don't drink coffee in the mornings/ She doesn't eat meat.

• Questions are formed by placing the auxiliary verb at the begining of the interrogative sentence: Do you like hamburguers? Do you live in Medellin?

Uses

1. Routines: Things most of people do everyday or all the time.

• We take a bath everyday

• You cook the dinner every night

2. Habit: Actions that certain people realize in an particualr way

• Sara visits his family every year

• We go to the gym every nigth

• I go to school on weekends

3. General Facts: Used to state fact, how things exist or behave (always/ permanently). Irrefutable actions.

• Earth moves around the sun/ The sun raises in the east/The sky is blue/Water boils at 100C°/ A dog has four legs/ It rains a lot in winter.

Verbs Rules

1. For verbs that end in -O, -CH, -SH, -SS, -X, or -Z we add -ES in the third person.

• go – goes

• catch – catches

• wash – washes

• kiss – kisses

• fix – fixes

• buzz – buzzes

2. For verbs that end in a consonant + Y, we remove the Y and add -IES.

• marry – marries

• study – studies

• carry – carries

• worry – worries

NOTE: For verbs that end in a vowel + Y, we just add -S.

• play – plays/ enjoy – enjoys/ say – says

​Questions in Present Simple

​I. Yes/No

• Do you speak italian?

+ Yes I do. I speak italian.

• Do you speak chinese?

- No, I don't. I don't speak chinese. I speak italian.

3rd Person

• Does he/she speak german?

No, he doesn't. He doesn't speak german. He speaks italian.

• Does he/she speak italian?

Yes, he does. He speaks italian.

WH Questions

​WH Questions in Present Simple

• ​Luis lives in Los Angeles in a big apartment and he likes to drive his car in the afternoons by the city.

• Maria studies french in the university because she wants to travel to France to live there and

• Mark watches T.V in the living room everyday because he likes reality shows.

• Sara learns french in the language academy on the weekends because she wants to go to Paris

Present Continuous

Pay attention and review everything about present continuous.

Look at the picture

Analize the sentences.

When do we use present continuous?

What is she doing?

What is it doing?

Speaking practice

Be ready to participate

What are they doing?

What are they doing?

What are they doing?

Writing practice

Be ready to answer the following questions:

Multiple Choice

what is she doing?

• she is dancing

• she are dancing

• he is dancing

• she is danceing

Multiple Choice

What is he doing?

• He is cooking

• He is eating

• she is cooking

Open Ended

What are you doing right now?

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