present simple spelling rules

• Engels
• Secundair onderwijs

Present simple

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

Regular rule

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

SHE/HE/IT                                   She works at school                  INF + S

SHIT +S

Use

- Routines
( I have breakfast every morning, I play football every week)

-Habits (I always have an apple for breakfast)

-Permanent situations
(Miss Van Heyste teaches English at school)

Make this sentence negative
I play the drums.

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?

                 QW    DO/DOES     subj  INF

Spelling

Write down the third person singular of the following verbs.

He... (to study)

He ... (to enjoy)

She... (to teach)

He... (to go)

She...(to kiss)

Spellling rules 3rd person singular

ending in y                                       y--> ies                       He studies

ending in y (vowel in front)        y+s                              He plays

ending in hissing sound                 +es                          She teaches

ending in o                                             +es                          He goes

See Grammar Summary p 21