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  • Let's do a checkup of the present simple tense.

  • We'll take a look at the affirmative, negative, and question forms.

  • Let's get started.

  • Let's start with the first checkup.

  • In this checkup, I want you to focus on the 'be' verbs.

  • Remember 'be' verbs, in the present simple tense, can be 'is', 'am', or 'are'.

  • Take a look at the first sentence.

  • It says, 'She _ blank _ at school.'

  • The subject of this sentence is 'she'.

  • What 'be' verb do we use for 'she'?

  • The correct answer is 'is'.

  • Now if you were thinking of the negative, the correct answer would be 'she isn't'

  • or 'she is not'.

  • That's correct as well.

  • And if we want to use a contraction for 'she is', we can say 'she's at school'

  • For the next one, it says, 'They _ blank _ twenty years old.'

  • The subject of this sentence is 'they'.

  • What 'be' verb do we use for 'they'?

  • The correct answer is 'are'.

  • For the negative, you can also use 'aren't' or 'are not'.

  • Also if you want to use the contraction for 'they are', you can say,

  • 'They're 20 years old.'

  • The next sentence says, 'His father _ blank_ busy.'

  • The subject of this sentence is 'his father'.

  • What subject pronoun do we use for 'his father'?

  • The correct answer is 'he'.

  • Remember for 'he', 'she', 'it', the 'be' verb is 'is'.

  • For the negative, we can say 'isn't' or 'is not'.

  • And for a contraction, for 'father' and 'is', we can say, 'His father's busy.'

  • Now I want you to try to find the mistakes in this sentence.

  • 'We isn't good friends.'

  • Did you find the mistake?

  • This is the mistake.

  • The subject is 'we' and the 'be' verb is 'are'.

  • Therefore, the correct answer is 'we are not',

  • or the contraction, 'we aren't good friends.'

  • The next sentence.

  • Can you find the mistake?

  • 'Are John a teacher?'

  • Think about the subject of this sentence.

  • The subject is 'John'.

  • And 'John', the subject pronoun is 'he'.

  • Therefore, we don't use 'are', we use 'is'.

  • 'Is John a teacher?'

  • 'Is John a teacher?'

  • And finally, 'It am a puppy.'

  • hmm This one is a big mistake.

  • The subject here is 'it'.

  • What 'be' verb do we use for 'it'?

  • The correct answer is 'is'.

  • So we don't say, 'It am a puppy,' we say, 'It is a puppy.'

  • Great job guys.

  • Let's move on to the next checkup.

  • For the next checkup, I want you to think of some other verbs in the present simple tense.

  • Take a look at the first sentence.

  • 'He __ blank __ …', I want you to think of the verb, 'like his dinner'.

  • What do we do to the verb when the subject is 'he', 'she', or 'it'?

  • Remember we add an 's'.

  • 'He likes his dinner.'

  • For the negative, you can also say, 'He doesn't like his dinner.'

  • The next sentence says, 'My students __ blank __…', I want you to think of 'need',

  • '…books'.

  • What is the subject pronoun for 'my students'?

  • The correct answer is 'they'.

  • If the subject is 'I', 'you', 'we', or 'they', in the present simple tense,

  • we don't change the verb, we keep it as is.

  • So the correct answer is, 'My students need books.'

  • Now for the negative, you can say, 'My students don't need books.'

  • The next sentence says, 'I __ blank __…', think of the verb,

  • '…live in London.'

  • What do we do here?

  • Again the subject is 'I', therefore we don't change the verb.

  • The correct answer is, 'I live in London.'

  • What's the negative?

  • 'I don't live in London.'

  • For the next part, I would like for you to try to find the mistake in the sentence.

  • 'He doesn't likes math.'

  • What's the error here?

  • Well this is a negative.

  • 'He doesn't…', that's correct.

  • However, we do not add an 's' when we have 'doesn't' in front of 'it'.

  • 'Do he eat candy?'

  • Here we have a question.

  • The subject of the sentence is 'he'.

  • For 'he', 'she', 'it', when we're making a sentence in the present simple tense,

  • we use 'does' not 'do'.

  • So the correct answer is, 'Does he eat candy?'

  • And finally, 'Sam is play computer games.'

  • There are two present simple verbs here and we can't have that,

  • so the correct way to fix this sentence is to get rid of the 'is'.

  • So take that out and say, 'Sam plays computer games.'

  • Add an 's' because the subject is 'Sam' which is a 'he'.

  • Great job!

  • Let's move on to the next practice.

  • For this next practice, we're taking a look at routines.

  • Remember the present simple tense can be used to describe events that happen regularly.

  • Let's take a look at the first sentence,

  • 'We _ blank _ the bus every day.'

  • And I want you to use the verb 'take'.

  • Here we see the clue word 'every day' which shows that this is a routine.

  • The subject of the sentence is 'we'.

  • In the present simple tense,

  • remember if the subject is 'I', 'you', 'we', or 'they',

  • we do not change the verb.

  • Therefore the correct answer is, 'We take the bus every day.'

  • In the second sentence it says, 'He _ blank _ to school every morning.'

  • Again a routine.

  • The subject here is 'he'.

  • What do we do if the subject is 'he', 'she', or 'it'?

  • We add 's' or 'es' to the verb.

  • In this example, the verb is 'go', so we have to add 'es'.

  • 'He goes to school every morning.'

  • In the next sentence, it says, 'Lizzy not play (in parenthesis) tennis.'

  • Here I want you to think about the negative form.

  • Lizzy is a 'she'.

  • The subject pronoun is 'she' so what do we do for the negative?

  • We say 'does not' or the contraction 'doesn't play tennis'.

  • We do not add an 's' or 'es' to the end of the verb.

  • Instead we say 'doesn't' or 'does not'.

  • Now I want you to find a mistake in the next sentence.

  • 'They watches TV at night.'

  • Can you figure out what's wrong with the sentence?

  • The subject is 'they'.

  • Therefore, remember, we do not change the verb.

  • We say 'watch'.

  • 'They watch TV at night'.

  • In the next sentence, or question, it says, 'Does he plays soccer every week?'

  • The subject of the sentence is 'he'.

  • To make a sentence, putting 'does' at the beginning is okay,

  • However, we don't put an 's' at the end of 'play'.

  • Therefore, the correct answer is to simply say,

  • 'Does he play soccer every week?'

  • And finally, 'He always forget his book.'

  • In this case, the subject is 'he'.

  • Remember, again, for he/she/it we add 's' or 'es' to the end of the verb.

  • What's the verb in the sentence?

  • It's 'forget'.

  • Therefore we have to say, 'He always forgets his book.'

  • Great job.

  • Let's move on to the next practice.

  • In this checkup, we'll take a look at how the present simple tense can be used to describe

  • future events.

  • Take a look at the first sentence.

  • It says, 'The airplane _ blank _ tonight.'

  • And we're looking at the verb 'leave'.

  • What is the subject of the sentence?

  • The correct answer is 'airplane'.

  • What subject pronoun do we use for 'airplane'?

  • It's 'it'.

  • Remember in the present simple tense, for 'he', 'she', 'it', we add an 's'

  • or 'es' to the verb.

  • The verb here is 'leave' so we simply add an 's'.

  • The correct answer is, 'The airplane leaves tonight.'

  • In the second sentence, it says, 'Does the movie _blank_ soon?'

  • And we're using the verb 'start'.

  • What is the subject of this sentence?

  • It's 'movie'.

  • And what subject pronoun do we use for movie?

  • It's 'it'.

  • So it's like saying, 'Does it _ blank _ soon?'

  • Well this is a question, so we already have the correct word in the front - 'does'.

  • For he/she/it, when we're asking a question, we use 'does'.

  • Now all we have to do is use the same verb in its base form,

  • so 'Does the movie start soon?'

  • We do not add an 's' or 'es' here.

  • Finally, it says, 'Viki _ blank _ tomorrow.'

  • The subject of the sentence is 'Vicki'.

  • 'Vicki' is a girl so the subject pronoun is 'she'.

  • You'll remember now that forin this case, we put 'works'.

  • w-o-r-k-s 'works'.

  • 'Vicki works tomorrow.'

  • Now let's find the mistakes in the sentence below.