SIMPLE PRESENT - uso auxiliares DO - DOES y Verb to be

FORMACIÓN

AFIRMATIVA

Sujeto+infinitivo+complemento

En 3º persona del singular añadimos -s/-es/-ies

They work hard /

She works hard/ 

She watches TV/ 

She studies music/ 

She plays volleyball

NEGATIVA

Sujeto+don’t/doesn’t + infinitivo+complemento

(No se añade –s en 3ºPS)

They don’t work hard/ 

She doesn’t work hard/ 

She doesn’t watch TV/

She doesn’t study music/ 

She doesn’t play volleyball

INTERROGATIVA

Do/Does + sujeto + infinitivo?

(No se añade –s en 3ºPS)

Do they work hard? 

Does she work hard?/ 

Does she watch TV?/

Does she study music? / 

Does she play volleyball?

USO

Acciones que se repite con cierta frecuencia, como rutinas, hábitos, acciones que realizamos a diario.  

Ejemplos:

Steve goes to school everyday

He visits his uncle twice a week

. Situaciones permanentes

John works in Iberia

. Verdades absolutas

Water boils at 100º degrees

. Para horarios de transportes

The train leaves at 7 o’clock

ADVERBIOS (EXPRESIONES TEMPORALES)

Always, often, usually, occasionally, sometimes, rarely, hardly ever, scarcely, never, every week, once / twice a year, on Wednesday...

VERBOS ESTATIVOS

Los verbos estativos se refieren al estado de las cosas más que una acción y normalmente no se utilizan en forma continua o progresiva (-ing). Estos verbos expresan:

1. Sentidos: feel, hear, smell, sound, see, taste, notice, recognise.

2. Actividades mentales: appear, believe, consider, depend, doubt, expect, forget, forgive, guess, hope, imagine, know, mean, mind, prefer, realise, remember, seem, suppose, think, understand.

3. Posesión: belong to, have, own, owe, possess.

4. Emotion: adore, desire, dislike, fear, hate, like, love, need, want, wish.

5. Measurements: cost, equal, messuare, weigh

Ejercicios:

1. - She  (think) Manuel  (be) crazy.
2. - They  (not know) what to say.
3. -  she  (she / feel) ok?
4. - He  (not be) a relative of mine.
5. - I  (not know) who she  (be).
6. - She  (wash) her car every week.
7. - Paul  (sleep) seven hours a day.
8. - Mary and John  (be) my cousins.
9. - She always  (win).
10. - James  (cry) very easily.
11. - She  (pray) in church every Sunday.
12. - Sarah  (not like) pop music.
13. -  John  (John / play) football everyday?
14. -  she (be) a friend of yours?
15. -  they (be) in love?
16. -  Mary  (Mary / believe) in God?
17. - Who  (be) your favourite football player? 

RESULTADOS:

1. - thinks / is

2.- don't know

3.- Does/ feel

4.- is not

5.- do not know/ is

6.- washes

7.- sleeps

8.- are

9.- wins

10.- cries

11.- prays

12.- does not like

13.- does/ play

14.- is

15.- are

16.- does/ believe

17.- is