PRESENT SIMPLE
PRESENTE SEMPLICE
When it is used
Quando è usato
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For a permanent fact
For a recurrent action
When there are adverbs of frequency
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Per un fatto permanente
Per un’azione ricorrente
Quando sono presenti avverbi di
frequenza
Example
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I live in Italy
He works in a bank
They speak English
How it is formed
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Affirmative form
Vivo in Italia
Lui lavora in una banca
Loro parlano inglese
Come si forma
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Forma affermativa
Subject + verb at base form
(+ s in the third singular person)
Soggetto + verbo alla forma base
(+ s alla terza persona singolare)
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Negative form
Forma negativa
Subject + do/does not + verb at base form
(do not = don’t ; does not = doesn’t)
Soggetto + do/does not + verbo alla forma
base
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Interrogative form
Forma interrogativa
Do/does + subject + verb at base form
Do/does + soggetto + verbo alla forma base
Example
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I work / She works
I don’t work / She doesn’t work
Do you work? / Does she work?
Negrini Elettra
Saretto Rebecca
Io lavoro / lei lavora
Io non lavoro / lei non lavora
Tu lavori? / lei lavora?
Excerices / Esercizi
Complete the passage with the correct form of the SIMPLE PRESENT
Completa la frase con la forma corretta del Present Simple
1) Hello, I
2) I
(to be) Julia. .
(to be) 19 and I
(to live) in London.
3) I
(not/to go) to school any longer and I
any longer and I am a singer.
4) I
Street.
(to work) in a pub in Regent's Street.
5) Every night I
my best friend Sarah.
6) She
7) She
(to be) a singer.
(to go) there with my best friend Sarah.
(to be) 22.
(to live) in London and
(to have) a beautiful flat.
