Present simple tense

PRESENT SIMPLE

form

• affirmative: subject + infinitive (+3^rd p –(e)s)
• negative: subject + don’t/doesn’t + infinitive
• question: do/does + subject + infinitive

Remember that we only add the –(e)s in the 3^rd person affirmative form and that be is an exception: am / is / are

use

• facts and permanent states.
• habits and routines
• 1^st type conditional sentences
• stative verbs that are not used in the pres. cont. (see, hear, believe, want, know, understand, think, like, love...)

Key words: how often / always / sometimes / often / never / usually / every day / once a week / twice a month... / if (in conditional sentences)

examples

• Snow melts at 0ºC.
• Harry lives in Liverpool.
• My dog plays football with us.
• Daniel washes his jacket every week.
• We don’t like football.
• She doesn’t understand baseball.
• Do you enjoy dining out?
• Does Rafael Nadal train in the morning?
• If you drink too much you’ll have to go to the toilet.

Eso 1 present-simple_review from Ana Arias Castro

Garfield`s routine from karolina cueva

Present simple and present continuous

-ing and -ed adjectives

How often / how long / when / what time

Clothes and complements

Revision of basic tenses

Conditional sentences

Future tenses: going to and will

These are some interesting websites to revise future tenses in English at lower intermediate level:

• Isabel Pérez: tenses website

GOING TO:

• Isabel Pérez: Going to boy
• Englisch Hilfen exercise

WILL:

• Isabel Pérez: Mister Will
• Englisch Hilfen exercise

Mixed tenses:

• Exercise 1_ My English Pages
• Exercise 2: Grammar Bank
• Exercise 3: Ego4u
• Exercise 4: English Exercises
• Exercise 5: Englisch Hilfen
• Exercise 6: Better English
• Exercise 7: Using English 
• Exercise 8 : English Page

Prepositions of time: on, in, at

Differences between Christmas in Britain and in the USA

The most frequent names in Spain

The most popular names in Spain in 2016 according to INE figures:

Conditional sentences

Present Perfect Simple tense

PRESENT PERFECT: FORM AND USE:

1. Present Perfect is used for actions in the past which have a connection to the present. The time when these actions happened is not relevant so there is often no time complement.
   
   
   
2. Present Perfect is used for recently completed actions. Actions that take place in a recent past. 
   
3. Present Perfect is also used for actions beginning in the past that continue up to the present.

EXERCISES

• BBC
• Present perfect man (www.isabelperez.com)
• Exercise 1 (www-englisch-hilfen.de)
• Exercise 2 (www.englisch-hilfen.de)
• English at home: grammar and exercises
• Hot Potatoes exercise
• Unit 3 final test
• Affirmative senteces in present perfect
• Negative sentences in present perfect (www.ego4u.com)
• Sentences with "never" in present perfect (www.ego4u.com)
• Questions in present perfect (www.ego4u.com)
• Exercise: affirmative, negative or question (Perfect English Grammar)
• Exercise 2 : affirmative, negative or question (Perfect English Grammar)
• Choose the right verb form (Using English)
• Choose the right verb (British Council)
• Put the sentences in order

TYPICAL ADVERBS

• ever / never / just / already / yet
• exercise from Grammar Bank
• exercise from Baladre Info

PAST SIMPLE: FORM AND USE:

• Positive sentence → Subject + verb+ ed or irregular form (I played with her.- She came with us.)
• Questions → Auxiliary verb + subject +verb (Did they read the story?)
• Negative sentence → Subject + auxiliary verb + verb ( I didn’t like it.) 

USE:

• For completed action in the past (We saw your sister yesterday.)
• For a series of completed actions (I woke up, had a shower, had breakfast and went to school.)
• For longer actions that start and stop in the past; time expressions usually go with it (My sister lived in London for years.)
• For talking about habits which stopped in the past (She studied Japanese when she was in high school.)
• For past facts or generalizations (Old people never played football.)

CONTRAST:

PAST SIMPLE & PRESENT PERFECT - CONTRAST

• past simple or present perfect (English Hilfen)
• past simple or present perfect (Study Zone)
• ESL lounge
• English Grammar Secrets
• Perfect English Grammar
• Perfect English Grammar 2
• Isabel Pérez -exercise 1
• Isabel Pérez -exercise 2

TEXTS

• Loch Ness

Past perfect tense

FORM AND USE:

It is used for actions that start in the past and continue up to a given time in the past:

• I had finished the article when they said it was dinner time.
• Yesterday evening at nine o'clock I had already finished the videogame.
• She hadn't arrived when we phoned.

Also in 3rd type conditional sentences:

• If you had asked me, I wouldn't have let you go.
• We wouldn't have solved the quiz if they hadn't helped us.

EXERCISES:
PAST PERFECT:

• Perfect English Grammar
• Ego 4 You
• Oxford University Press
• Englisch Hilfen - statements
• Englisch Hilfen - negatives
• Englisch Hilfen - questions
• Englisch Hilfen - mix

PAST PERFECT OR PAST SIMPLE:

• Ego 4 You - 1
• Ego 4 You - 2
• Ego 4 You - 3
• Ego 4 You - 4
• Focus (don't use contractions)
• English 4 You
• English 4 You - 2
• English 4 You - 3

Present perfect and past simple

PRESENT PERFECT: FORM AND USE:

1. Present Perfect is used for actions in the past which have a connection to the present. The time when these actions happened is not relevant so there is often no time complement.
   
   
   
2. Present Perfect is used for recently completed actions. Actions that take place in a recent past. 
   
3. Present Perfect is also used for actions beginning in the past that continue up to the present.

EXERCISES

• BBC
• Present perfect man (www.isabelperez.com)
• Exercise 1 (www-englisch-hilfen.de)
• Exercise 2 (www.englisch-hilfen.de)
• English at home: grammar and exercises
• Hot Potatoes exercise
• Unit 3 final test
• Affirmative senteces in present perfect
• Negative sentences in present perfect (www.ego4u.com)
• Sentences with "never" in present perfect (www.ego4u.com)
• Questions in present perfect (www.ego4u.com)
• Exercise: affirmative, negative or question (Perfect English Grammar)
• Exercise 2 : affirmative, negative or question (Perfect English Grammar)
• Choose the right verb form (Using English)
• Choose the right verb (British Council)
• Put the sentences in order

TYPICAL ADVERBS

• ever / never / just / already / yet
• exercise from Grammar Bank
• exercise from Baladre Info

PAST SIMPLE: FORM AND USE:

• Positive sentence → Subject + verb+ ed or irregular form (I played with her.- She came with us.)
• Questions → Auxiliary verb + subject +verb (Did they read the story?)
• Negative sentence → Subject + auxiliary verb + verb ( I didn’t like it.) 

USE:

• For completed action in the past (We saw your sister yesterday.)
• For a series of completed actions (I woke up, had a shower, had breakfast and went to school.)
• For longer actions that start and stop in the past; time expressions usually go with it (My sister lived in London for years.)
• For talking about habits which stopped in the past (She studied Japanese when she was in high school.)
• For past facts or generalizations (Old people never played football.)

CONTRAST:

PAST SIMPLE & PRESENT PERFECT - CONTRAST

• past simple or present perfect (English Hilfen)
• past simple or present perfect (Study Zone)
• ESL lounge
• English Grammar Secrets
• Perfect English Grammar
• Perfect English Grammar 2
• Isabel Pérez -exercise 1
• Isabel Pérez -exercise 2

TEXTS

• Loch Ness

Phonemic chart for English

This chart contains the sounds that stardard English uses:

Tenses for ESO-3 and ESO-4 students

Neiu3 0-summary of tenses from Ana Arias Castro

Neiu4 0-summary of tenses from Ana Arias Castro

Some & Any compounds

FORMS OF THE SOME & ANY COMPOUNDS:

USES:

EXERCISES:

• Englisch Hilfen - choose the right compound
• Ego4you
• Ego4you-2
• Ego4you-3
• English4you
• Better English
• ELS Blues Apps

Quantifiers in English

This is a chart with the main quantifiers in English. Pay attention to which ones are used in affirmative, interrogative and negative sentences:

FURTHER READING:

• My English pages
• English EFL

SOME EXERCISES:

• Bristish Council (exercise at the bottom of the page)
• To learn English: some, any, no
• To learn English: much, many
• To learn English: a few, a little, few, little

Adverbs typically used with present perfect