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Ok guys, so today we are going to be talking about the present simple. Ok so, here's an
example of the present simple. I dance everyday. Now I wish I could dance like this guy, but
unfortunately I can't. I wish I could do that move, I wish I could do this handstand kind
of thing, but I can't. But we, the present simple is what we use for things that occur
very frequently. So, we could say, I danced, I danced yesterday. I guess, today, I danced
today at some point. Or in the future I would probably dance again. So because it's an event
that occurs often, and its something you regularly do, we would use I dance everyday, and that's
why we use the present simple. So, let's take another look at the present simple, so we
used it for things that are generally true.
So we know that the sky is blue, that's basically a fact. So in this case, we would use the
present simple. So is would be the verb that we use. So the sky is blue. Uhm, another fact
could be, I don't know, the world is round, for example. And so in this case, we would
use the present simple. And, another occasion that explains uh a second ago. Something that
happens all the time, or repeatedly. So for, maybe habits or just generally things that
you do everyday maybe, we would use the present simple. So for example, I go to work everyday.
Or maybe, I don't know, I learn English every morning. Or, sorry, that's a bad example.
I study English every morning. And because it's something that you do on a regular basis,
we make use of the present simple.
Sometimes the name, like sometimes the name present can kind of a bit confusing because
we can use it to talk about things that possibly happened in the past and may possibly happen
again in the future. So it's kind of misleading but uhm, that's what we call it, we call it
the present simple. Ok good, so here's some more examples.
So the present simple, we could say I live in London. So me, Chris, so I Chris, I live
in London and I lived here yesterday, and I'm leaving here today, and I'll possibly
live, I'll possibly be living here tomorrow as well. So that would be something that is
that, that, that's basically habituates, something that happens often because its basically what
I'm doing, basically right now. So another example could be they jump when
they get excited. So every time they get excited, they jump. So right now, maybe, maybe they
saw something good on TV, and, although, maybe they have TVs outside, I don't know but maybe
they saw something very good outside on TV and they jumped. And they did that yesterday,
and they'll possibly do that again at some point in the future. So in this case, we would
make use of the present simple.
And now, this guy, this guy's looking huge, humongous, muscular dude, and we could say,
he goes to the gym 3 times a week. Or if you're this muscular dude, if that is you, I would
say you go to the gym 5 times a week. So it's something you do, often on a regular basis
and so that's why we use the present simple.
So good, so excellent that you understand, you understand that. And how do we make the
present simple. Well this one is very, very, very, very easy. All we have to do to make
this is, we just take our infinitive and we just add a pronoun to it. I guess here we
have our infinitive, here we have a pronoun I and then we have our infinitive right here.
So we have I live, you live, and then here we have you live, we live and they live. Ok?
But when we're talking in the third person singular form. Then we add it, and we, in
this case, we gonna add an -s to the end. He lives, she lives, it lives, it's alive,
so it lives. And also, if its, if we need to use a name of, maybe a place or a person,
a noun, we would also add this -s. So we would say, Chris lives. Or we would say Sara lives
in, I don't know, New Castle or in China, or somewhere. Ok, so that's generally the
case. However, sometimes we might add -es as well. So sometimes, we would say, like
for example, if the ending is kiss, so we have an s sound at the end, we would add an
-es ending. So we would say kisses. And if we have wish, we would have wishes. With fish,
we have fishes. And fax, faxes, and watch, watches. Ok, so if we have, like if we have
any of these endings, so these endings here, lemme underline them. There we go, then in
the third person singular, so that's going to be this one here, we would add -es to the
ending, rather than -s. And that's how we make the present simple. Ok, so thank you
very much for listening to me today.