Hello everyone, and welcome to Sparkle English, where I teach you different ways that you can
improve your level of English. In today's video, I'm going to talk about the present
simple tense. I'm going to discuss how to form the present simple in the affirmative
form. I'll also show you the spelling rules for how we conjugate verbs after he, she and it.
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Let's get started. So when do we use the present simple, we use the present simple
when something is normally or always true. For example, animals need water to survive.
Here, the verb need is in the present simple. Christmas is in December. cheetahs run fast.
need his and run are all in the present simple because these are all facts that are always true.
We also use the present simple tense for situations that we believe are more or
less permanent. For example, William lives in England. Sean works at a bank. I like chocolate.
We use the present simple to talk about habits or things that we do regularly. We can use time
expressions or adverbs of frequency, such as often, always, sometimes and never with the
Present Simple. For example, I always drink coffee in the morning. Here we're talking about something
that we do a lot or do often. He never smoked cigarettes. they brush their teeth twice a day.
We also use the present simple to talk about the future when we are discussing a timetable
or a fixed plan. For example, school starts at eight o'clock, the plane departs at 5:42pm.
The football game begins at nine o'clock this evening. In all of these examples,
we're talking about a timetable or an event in the future that is fixed on a calendar or on a time
schedule. So we can use the present simple, even though we're talking about the future.
Now I'm going to discuss the spelling rules for the Present Simple. With most verbs, we add s
for the he she and it form. For example, I work you work, he she it works. You we they work. So
for most verbs, you have to add an s when we use the he she or it form. For example, He lives in
Madrid, she always walks to school. And both of these example we have to add s at the end of the
verb because we're using the he or she form for I, you, we and they we just use the verb as it is.
For verbs that end in -s, -x, -sh, and -ch, we add -es, for the he, she, and it form. For example, I
kiss, you kiss, he she or it kisses. We have to add -es because kiss ends in s.
For example, Tom never washes the dishes. Wash ends in -sh.
It ends in sh. So, we have to add -es for the he, she, and it form. He kisses his wife every
morning before going to work. Again, kiss ends in s, so we have to add -es for he, she, and it.
Now verbs ending in a consonant followed by y, we change the y to -ies for the he, she, and it form.
So I study, you study, he she or it studies. So we remove the y and add -ies. For example,
if we have the word play, play becomes plays for the he, she, or it form, because this is a
vowel before y. It's not a consonant. But study, D is a consonant. So if it's a consonant before y,
we have to change the y to -ies. For vowels, a, e, i, o and u, we don't have to. We just have to
add the s if it's before y. Lauren studies every afternoon. The bird flies south for the winter.
In the present simple, we also have some irregular verbs. I have a video on the verb to be
in the present simple, which I'll link to in the description below this video. One of the irregular
verbs we have that you have to memorize is have. I have, you have, he she it has, you, we, they have.
For example, Jane has a dog. Jane is a woman, so Jane is she. She has a dog. You have a red car.
The next irregular verb in the present simple is go. I go.
You go. He, she, it goes. We have to add es and we and they go. Luke goes to the gym twice a week. I
rarely go to the cinema. And we have do. I do, you do, he she it does with -es. You, we, they
do. Julie always does her homework. I do, the bride said on her wedding day. So now we're
going to have two different practice sections. In this first section, you're going to answer
if these sentences are correct or incorrect. There are eight sentences. I'm going to read
them and then you have to correct them on a piece of paper or in the comment section of this video.
Number one, we eat pizza every Friday. Two: You looks tired. Three: she work in a school.
Four: the dog always runs to the park. Five: I starts work at nine o'clock.
Six: He drinks orange juice every morning. Seven: Jake live in London. Eight: She watch TV in the
evenings. So use the rules we just discussed to fix any of the sentences here that are incorrect.
Number one is correct. We eat pizza every Friday. Number two is incorrect.
We have to write you look tired. We only add the s for she he and it. She work in a school. This
is incorrect. It should be works. We add an s for he she and it. The dog always runs to the park.
This is correct. Five: I starts work at nine o'clock. This is incorrect.
We just write start with no s we only add the s for he, she,
and it. He drinks orange juice every morning. This is correct. Number seven:
Jake live in London. This is incorrect. For this verb, we have to add s because Jake is a he.
He lives in London. Jake lives in London. Number eight. She watch TV in the evenings.
This is incorrect: watches. Now with this, we have to add -es because it ends in -ch,
in ch. So remember to look at the rules for how to conjugate the verbs in the present simple.
So let me know in the comments section how many you got correct out of eight. And now we'll go on
to a more difficult practice. In this section, you have to complete these sentences with the
correct form of the verb in brackets. So number one, Matthew ____ football every night. So here
we have the verb and you have to conjugate the verb correctly using the spelling rules I taught
you before. So the correct answer here would be Matthew watches. The verb ends in -ch, so we add
-es. Number two: the play ____ at five o'clock this afternoon. In this case, begin is a regular
verb, so we'll put begins with an s. Number three: planes ____ over the park every morning.
In this case, planes is they so we just write fly. We don't have to change it to flies
because it's not a she, he, or it. Number four: I never ____ broccoli.
Here we just write eat. I never eat broccoli. Number five: He ____ to a new restaurant every
week. Now go is irregular so we have to write goes. He goes to a new restaurant every week.
Number six: Steve ____ his homework after school. Steve is a he, so we write Steve does
his homework after school. Number seven: Dad always ____ my car when I break it.
This verb ends in x and when a verb ends in x for the he, she, or it form, we have to add -es. So
Dad always fixes my car when I break it. Number eight: I usually ____ the dishes after dinner.
I usually do the dishes after dinner. Number nine: mom often ____ cereal with milk for breakfast.
This verb is also irregular. For he, she, and it, we have to write has. Mom is a she, so
she has. And finally number 10: Gabriella always ____ delicious food for her guests. Gabriella is a
she, so we're going to add an s to make. Gabriella always makes delicious food for her guests.
So let me know in the comments section how many you got correct on this section
out of 10 so a total of how many you got correct out of 18 for the present simple affirmative
practice test. Thank you guys for watching. I hope you enjoyed this lesson and you found it useful.
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