Present simple

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 1

AIM:

I can write about facts and habits.

Success criteria:

- I can use the present simple to write about habits.

- I can use the present simple to write about facts.

Facts:

Schools have classrooms.

The bus leaves every day at 8.

A cow eats grass.

Cars drive fast.

Habits
(gewoonten)

I know what facts and habits are.

SHIT-rule

He/she/it krijgen een extra -s achter het werkwoord

Dit geldt ook voor woorden die door he/she/it vervangen kunnen worden:

- School (=it) starts early.

- My sister (=she) runs fast.

- John (=he) reads a lot of books.

Let's Practice together

I always _________ an apple in the morning.

She never __________ breakfast.

They __________at McDonalds every Tuesday.

Are these facts or habits?

The flight to New York _______ at 5 pm. (to leave)

The Sun ______________ up every day. (to come)

Cheetahs _____________ very fast. 

(to run)

Facts or habits?

Do you think you can do this yourself now?

My mother ____________to bake cakes.
(to love)

1. Love
2. Loving
3. to love
4. loves

I______________to school every day.
(to walk)

1. to walk
2. walk
3. walks
4. walking

The train ___________from platform 2.
(to leave)

1. leaves
2. to leave
3. leaving
4. leave

We __________ to France every summer.
(to travel)

1. travels
2. to travel
3. travel
4. travelling

Practice yourself:

Make the worksheet.

Finished?

Hand in your worksheet and 

Go to class notebook: do the page READING in the inhoudsbibliotheek. 

(or book page 52 & 53)

I can use the present simple to write about facts and habits.

What I still find difficult

READING

Finish reading the text in teams and do the exercise below it (in your notebook).

If you have a book: Do page 52 and 53.