Present Simple Reference Guide
A one-page present simple explanation with clear timeline diagrams, form guidance, time expressions and example sentences.
What’s in the worksheet?
- Clear visual timeline diagrams
- Form and use explained concisely
- Useful time words and example sentences
- One-page printable reference
Explain present simple for routines, general truths, stable situations and preferences. The bus and house diagrams contrast repeated action with something generally true.
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A simple way to teach it
Before the lesson
Use the single A1-A2 reference page. It supplies positive examples and time words, not a complete exercise set or answer key.
- Compare taking the bus regularly with living in a house. Explain that the tense is not limited to what happens at this instant.
- Read the routine, fact, situation and preference examples. Match every day or usually to an appropriate habitual context.
- Invite short invented sentences about a routine, a place and a preference. Check clarity of meaning before adding more grammar rules.
Support and extension
Support with first-person sentence frames. Extend by contrasting a usual routine with an activity happening now; the guide's positive examples do not constitute a full question-and-negative paradigm.
Suggested approach. Adjust the pace and number of questions to suit your class.
