Es el tiempo presente en inglés.
El "Presente Simple" se utiliza:
Para expresar hábitos y rutinas, hechos generales, acciones repetidas o situaciones, emociones y deseos permanentes:
I smoke (hábito); I work in London (permanencia); London is a large city (hecho general)
Para dar instrucciones o indicaciones:
You walk for two hundred meters, then you turn left.
Para hablar de eventos programados, presentes o futuros:
Your exam starts at 09.00.
Para referirse al futuro, detrás de algunas conjunciones: after, when, before, as soon as, until:
He'll give it to you when you come next Saturday.
Diapositiva 2
EJEMPLOS
Hábitos y rutinas
He drinks tea at breakfast.
She only eats fish.
They watch television regularly.
Eventos y acciones repetidos
We catch the bus every morning.
It rains every afternoon in the hot season.
They drive to Monaco every summer.
Hechos generales
Water freezes at zero degrees.
The Earth revolves around the Sun.
Her mother is Peruvian.
Instrucciones o indicaciones
Open the packet and pour the contents into hot water.
You take the No.6 bus to Watney and then the No.10 to Bedford.
Eventos programados
His mother arrives tomorrow.
Our holiday starts on the 26th March
Construcciones de futuro
She'll see you before she leaves.
We'll give it to her when she arrives.
Diapositiva 3
Afirmativa Interrogativa Negativa
I thinkDo I think? I do not think
You think Do you think? You do not think
He thinks Does he think? He does not think
She thinks Does she think? She does not think
It thinks Does it think? It does not think
We think Do we think? We do not think.
They think Do they think? They do not think.