The Present Simple Tense

We use the present simple tense for:

- daily routines, habits or repeated actions:
Every morning I get up at 7 o'clock.

We usually have bread and butter for breakfast.

He reads comics in the afternoon.

He goes to work by bus. 

In the evening they watch TV.

- facts or laws of nature:
The sun rises in the east.

- permanent states:

She lives in England.

The verb in the 3rd person singular (with he, she, it) gets an ending -s:

He gets up at 7 o'clock.

She makes cakes.

The verb ending in -ss, -sh, -ch, -x or -o gets an ending -es in the 3rd person singular:

She crosses the street carefully.

He brushes his teeth in the bathroom.

She watches TV in the evening.

He boxes every evening.

She does her homework every day. (exception in pronunciation)

He goes to school every day. (exception in pronunciation)

To make questions or negatives, we need an auxiliary verb DO:

Do you go to school every day? - No, I don't. I do not go to school every day.
Do they watch TV every evening? - No, they don't. They do not watch TV every evening.

In the 3rd person singular, we need DOES (3rd person singular):
Does she make cakes? - No, she doesn't. She does not make cakes.
Does he play the violin? - No, he doesn't. He does not play the violin.

*****

Sadašnje prosto vreme koristimo:

- da izrazimo uobičajene radnje koje se ponavljaju svakodnevno ili s vremena na vreme, navike:
Every morning I get up at 7 o'clock. (Svakog jutra ustajem u 7 sati.)

We usually have bread and butter for breakfast. (Obično doručkujemo hleb i puter.)

He reads comics in the afternoon. (On čita stripove posle podne.)

He goes to work by bus. (On ide na posao autobusom)

In the evening they watch TV. (Uveče oni gledaju TV.)

- kada govorimo o činjenicama, prirodnim zakonima:
The sun rises in the east. (Sunce izlazi na istoku.)

- kada pominjemo trajno stanje:

She lives in England.(Ona živi u Engleskoj.)

Glagol u III licu jednine (uz on, ona, ono) dobija nastavak -s:

He gets up at 7 o'clock. (On ustaje u 7 sati.)

She makes cakes. (Ona pravi kolače.)

Glagol koji se završava na -ss, -sh, -ch, -x or -o dobija nastavak -es u III licu jednine:

She crosses the street carefully. (Ona pažljivo prelazi ulicu.)

He brushes his teeth in the bathroom. (On pere zube u kupatilu.)

She watches TV in the evening. (Ona gleda TV uveče.)

He boxes every evening. (On boksuje svake večeri.)

She does her homework every day. (Ona radi domaći svakog dana. - izuzetak u izgovoru)

He goes to school every day. (On ide u školu svakog dana. - izuzetak u izgovoru)

Za upitni i odrični oblik treba nam pomoćni glagol DO:

Do you go to school every day? - No, I don't. I do not go to school every day.
Do they watch TV every evening? - No, they don't. They do not watch TV every evening.

U III licu jednine treba nam DOES (3rd person singular):
Does she make cakes? - No, she doesn't. She does not make cakes.
Does he play the violin? - No, he doesn't. He does not play the violin.

Write DO, DOES, DON'T or DOESN'T:
1 Excuse me, _____ you live in this street?
2 He _____ go to work on Sunday.
3 They _____ get up early on Monday.
4 _____ she live in this street?
5 She _____ watch the match.
6 They _____ like chess.
7 _____ Mary play tennis?
8 He _____ work in a bank.
9 What time _____ Jack and Jill go to school?
10 When _____ they come home?

Put into the negative.
1 They play tennis very well.
2 He has something to tell you.
3 She plays the violin.
4 He is very happy.
5 I like shopping on Saturdays.  

Fill in the blanks using: goes, has, listens, reads, sleeps and watches.
My friend _____ lunch at one o'clock. He usually _____ soup for lunch. He _____ after lunch. In the evening he _____ a book or _____ TV with his parents. He sometimes _____ to the radio. He _____ to bed at ten o'clock.