Present Simple

Read an extensive course syllabus that explains what each activity is, how to complete it and how it will help you improve your understanding of the present simple tense.

We set out the key objectives for this course so you can identify what you need to learn. We provide a downloadable checklist that you can print out to check off the points as you go through the course.

This is a presentation that explains what tenses are, why we need them and how the tense system works in English. As well as a presentation, you can test yourself using our interactive question and answer flashcards.

In this video you will learn the top 20 verbs in English. We point you towards our translator so you can understand all these verbs in your own language. We will use these example verbs in the present simple explanation videos. You can download a list of these top 20 verbs and you can listen to audios of a native English teacher saying each verb in its infinitive form, so you can learn the correct pronunciation.

Watch our grammar video explanation of the present simple tense to learn the correct use, form and keywordsin this tense. This includes the slides used in our grammar presentations with notes lines and an interactive worksheet, which you can answer whilst watching the video. We provide the correct answers to this interactive worksheet too and point you to our grammar forum, where you can ask any questions about the correct grammar of the present simple tense.

Learn about some keywords that can be used in the present simple tense then review their position in a present simple sentence using our downloadable PDF review.

As experienced teachers, we know the typical mistakes thatt learners make in English with the present simple tense, so. we highlight them in this self-paced presentation soyou can avoid these same mistakes yourself.

This presentation demonstrates the use of the present simple tense in real life. We have found examples of the present simple tense online and in news articles and show these examples to you, so you can see how it's used in the everyday life of native speakers.

This is a self-study activity that you can do in your own time to help you practise the form of the present simple tense, although this tool can easily be used for other tenses too. We provide you with links and documents to help you complete this activity.

This is a self-study activity that you can do in your own time to help you practise using the present simple tense when talking about your daily routine. We provide you with links and documents to help you complete this activity.

This is a self-study activity that you can do in your own time to help you practise the form of the present simple tense. We provide you with links and documents to help you complete this activity. There is also a forum attached to this activity where you can interact with the other course members and get written corrections and feedback on your comments from our teachers.

Practise creating questions in the present simple tense in our celebrity interview activity.

Conversation is normally the reason why we learn grammar. We provide a list of the most typical conversation questions in the present simple tense and you have access to our conversation forum where you can write answers to these questions. We also provide you with access to our private Flipgrid community where you can upload videos of yourself answering these questions and listen to other learners' answers.

This is a self-study activity that you can do in your own time to help you practise using the present simple tense in debate. We provide you with links and documents to help you complete this activity.

This review page summarises everything learnt in this course. We present all the forms of the present simple tense as well as the use, some example sentences, keywords, and present simple pronunciation all in one page.

We list the objectives of this course and your achievements, so you can see how much you have progressed by taking our course.

Take a look at some of our published resources online to help you improve your general knowledge of English.

We always appreciate any feedback from our learners. Here you have the chance to fill in an optional questionnaire telling us what you liked and didn't like so we can keep on improving for our future learners.