1. Unit 1 – Grade 12 – Advanced Version
Present Simple Tense
Unit 1 – Grade 12 – Advanced Version

2. Present Simple Tense: Exercise
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Sure you know all about the Present Simple Tense? Try this exercise:
Choose the correct word or phrase in each sentence.
That must be the end of the first part of the performance. What happens/ happening now?
What’s the matter? Why do you look/ are you looking at me like that?
To be honest, I am doubting/ doubt whether Jim will be here next week.
Pay no attention to Graham. He is just being/ is sarcastic.
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Contents
Exercise Exercise Key
Spelling Rules
Present Simple vs. Present Continuous
Other Uses of Present Simple Tense
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4. Present Simple Tense: Exercise
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Here is the key:
That must be the end of the first part of the performance. What happens/ happening now?
What’s the matter? Why do you look/ are you looking at me like that?
To be honest, I am doubting/ doubt whether Jim will be here next week.
Pay no attention to Graham. He is just being/ is sarcastic.
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5. Present Simple Tense: Spelling Rules
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Look at the examples of third person singular forms and answer the questions.
Catches, cooks, does, eats, enjoys, fixes, flies, goes, lives, makes, misses, passes, plays, pushes, reads, replies, says, shops, smokes, speaks, stands, teaches, thinks, tries, waits, washes, works.
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6. Present Simple Tense: Spelling Rules
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What is the most common way of making the third person singular?
What happens with words ending in vowel + -y ?
What happens with words ending in consonant + -y ?
After which consonants and groups of consonants do we add –es?
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7. Present Simple Tense: Spelling Rules
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What is the most common way of making the third person singular?
 By adding –s.
What happens with words ending in vowel + -y ?
 We add –s.
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8. Present Simple Tense: Spelling Rules
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What happens with words ending in consonant + -y ?
 We change –y to –ies.
After which consonants and groups of consonants do we add –es?
s, z, x, ch, sh.
Exceptions:
have  has; go  goes; do  does.
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9. Present Simple Tense: Spelling Rules
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Write the third person singular of these verbs:
Box, brush, buy, complete, cry, defend, deny, destroy, excite, expect, fry, guess, look, pray, reach, receive, rush, spend, want, watch.
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10. Present Simple vs. Present Continuous
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Present Simple
Facts that are always true
E.g. Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.
Habits
E.g. British people drink a lot of tea
States
E.g. I don’t like gangster films.
Present Continuous
Temporary actions
E.g. I’m staying in a hotel until I find a flat.
Actions that are actually in progress
E.g. The dog is sleeping on our bed.
Actions in progress but not actually happening at the moment
E.g. I’m learning to drive.
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11. Present Simple vs. Present Continuous State Verbs
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Some verbs are not normally used in progressive form. They are state verbs which describe a continuing state:
Believe, belong, consist, contain, doubt, fit, have, know, like, love, matter, mean, need, own, prefer, seem, suppose, suspect, understand, want, wish
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12. Present Simple vs. Present Continuous State Verbs
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Some verbs have a stative meaning and a different active meaning. Typical examples are:
Be, depend, feel, have, measure, see, taste, think, weigh
Compare:
STATE
EVENT
Jack is noisy.
Jill is being noisy.
David has a Porsche.
We are having an interesting conversation!
I think I like you!
David is thinking about getting a new job.
This fish tastes awful
I am just tasting the soup.
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13. Present Simple vs. Present Continuous State Verbs
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Put each verb in brackets into the present simple tense or present continuous:
I _____ (hear) that you have been promoted. Congratulations!
I hope Sarah will be here soon. I _____ (depend) on her.
Please be quiet, Dave. You _____ (forever/ interrupt).
Hey, you! What _____ (you/ think) you’re doing?
Jane is away on holiday so Linda ____ (handle) her work.
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14. Present Simple vs. Present Continuous State Verbs
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Here is the key:
I hear that you have been promoted. Congratulations!
I hope Sarah will be here soon. I am depending on her.
Please be quiet, Dave. You are forever interrupting.
Hey, you! What do you think you’re doing?
Jane is away on holiday so Linda is handling her work.
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15. Other Uses of Present Simple
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Uses
Examples
Making declarations
I hope you’ll come to my party.
I bet you don’t know the answer.
Headlines
Ship sinks in midnight collision.
Instructions
First you roll out the pastry.
Itineraries (descriptions of travel arrangement)
On day three we visit Stratford-upon-Avon.
Summaries of events
May 1945: The war in Europe comes to an end.
In narrative and funny stories
…So then the second man asks the first one why he has a banana in his ear and the first one says…
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