present simple spelling rules

• Engels
• Secundair onderwijs

Answer in a full sentence.
When do you get up on schooldays?

What is your bedtime on school night?

How many times a week do you take breakfast

1. I have breakfast every day
2. I never have breakfast
3. Most of the time I have breakfast
4. I almost never have breakfast

Use

- Routines

- Habits 

- Facts, general truth

- To talk about scheduled events

FORM of the present simple

How do we form the Present Simple?

I .... (to like) volleyball

He .... (to like) volleyball

Regular rule

I/YOU/WE/THEY                                 I work at school                    INF

SHE/HE/IT (1 persoon of ding)    She works at school           INF + S

SHIT +S

She.... (to play) the piano

He... (to study) English

verbs ending in -Y

He/she/it          studies                        y--> ies    

there is a consonant (medeklinker) in front of the y

He/she/it          plays                             y+s

there is a vowel (klinker) in front of the y

She ... (to kiss) her boyfriend

She ... (to brush) her hair

verbs ending in a hissing(sissende) sound

He misses

She watches

It buzzes                                        verbs ending in a hissing sound

He mixes                                          + ES

She washes

She kisses

He ... (to do) his homework

He ... (to go) to school

verbs ending in -o

He goes

She does

verbs ending in -o          + ES

Make this sentence negative
I play the drums.

Make this sentence negative
My brother plays soccer.

Negative

I/YOU/WE/THEY                         don't+ INF

You don't work at school.

HE/SHE/IT                                    doesn't + INF

He doesn't work at school.

Questions

Choose the correct question to the sentence above.

He leaves for school at 8 o'clock

1. When he leaves for school?
2. When leaves he for school?
3. When do he leaves for school?
4. When does he leave for school?

They talk about the weather

1. About what talk they?
2. What about talk they?
3. What do they talk about?
4. About what do they talk?

Questions: rules

He leaves for school at 8.

YES/NO :                   DOES             he   LEAVE for school?

QWQ :        WHEN    DOES            he   LEAVE for school?

Vraagwoord  +  DO/DOES   +  Onderwerp + werkwoord