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Using present simple

Few days ago we saw present simple at class. Now we are going to continue with it so here you have a funny explanation about this tense. If you need more exercises you have these pages to work with:

• exercise 1: this page has a long explanation but it has a couple of videos with a teacher speaking about this tense. At the end you have exercises to do.
• exercise 2: very simple exercises to practise. Here you have a lot of tenses; go to the simple present tense exercises (in affirmative and negative).
  
• exercise 3: another selection of exercises on present simple.
• exercise 4: here the vocabulary is a bit more difficult but it's easy to do.

To finish with, remember present simple or habitual present is often connected to frequency adverbs such as always, never, often, usually, sometimes...
Have a look to this diagramme:

100% _____X_______X________ 50% ______X_______X______ 0%
ALWAYS / usually / often / SOMETIMES / rarely / hardly ever / NEVER

The position is before the principal verb or between the subject and the verb. Look at the examples:

• Do you always wear a uniform?
• She never plays tennis

Here you have a good video with the most typical daily activities.

Working with 3rd person

I have this link to practise with the pronunciation of the 3 forms of the 3rd person in singular but remember I'm interested in the difference between these 2 groups:

• GROUP A: you add -s or-es and the number of syllables doesn't change; e.g. works, plays, studies, loves
• GROUP B: you add -s or -es and you pronounce an extra syllable /IZ/; e.g. finishes, fixes, practises

The difference between the pronunciation within the group A is not so important and to do it simpler remember to pronounce /s/ when the verb ends in /p/ or /k/, (like asks or stops) but most of the verbs have the pronunciation /z/.

Travelling with English

More and more people are keen on travelling. Distance and time have been shorten recently and the posibilities to trave abroad are usual than few years ago.
Travelling allows us to broaden our knowledge about many things but it is necessary to communicate to the people of the places we are visiting. Nowadays the "lingua franca" is English so we need it to get in contact with the inhabitants of the countries we go to.
But the English we use by travelling is not referred to a specific nationality but to the most "international" one, the English adapted to all the citizens of the world. This means we do not have to speak with a wide variety of structures and a large vocabulary but to use the language in an effective way.
This is the kind of English we are going to use in aur classes and the final target of our course in "Aulas Europeas": to enable people to communicate with other people from different nationalities, keping in mind that English is not their/our mother tongue.