Simple Present Tense

Simple Present
Tense

Yunny Astuti
SMP Dharma Pertiwi

KOMPETENSI DASAR DAN INDIKATOR

KOMPETENSI DASAR
Menerapkan fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan unsur
kebahasaan teks interaksi transaksional lisan dan tulis yang
melibatkan tindakan memberi dan meminta informasi terkait
keadaan/ tindakan/kegiatan/ kejadian yang dilakukan/terjadi
secara rutin atau merupakan kebenaran umum, sesuai
dengan konteks penggunaannya. (Perhatikan unsur

kebahasaan simple present tense).l

INDIKATOR
*Mengidentifikasi kalimat yang menggunakan

simple present tense.
*Mengidentifikasi fungsi simple present tense.

*Mengidentifikasi pola kalimat yang
menggunakan simple present tense.

IN THIS CHAPTER WE WILL LEARN:
•to tell about things that are true in general
•to tell about things that happen regularly
•to use simple present tense in the positive,negative

and interrogative forms
•to ask whether something is the case or not

SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE
We use simple present tense to tell

about something true in general
and habits. We can also use simple

present tense to ask whether
something is the case or not.

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I’m looking at my books.

I read a lot.




He’s eating an ice-cream.
He likes ice-cream.



The sentences in bold are written in simple present tense
too.

We use the simple present tense to tell things that are true in
general,

or for things that happen sometimes or all the time:
• I like small cities.

• The shops open at seven o’clock.

General Truth untuk menyatakan kebenaran
yang diakui semua orang
*Fire is hot

*Water boils at 100 degrees celcius

Habitual action untuk menyatakan rutinitas,
sesuatu hal/kegitan yang dilakukan secara
berulang-ilang/terus menerus.
*Sometimes my father goes to garden.

Here is more explanation about it:



Verbs have different forms,

Most people eat three called tenses. The tense of a
meals a day. verb tells youwhen the

I often help Dad wash the action happens. If it happens

car. regularly, or if it happens


often or sometimes or

never, you use the simple

present tense.




Penguins live in Antarctica.

Sharon often visits the Louvre

Museum inParis.




When you are talking about facts, or saying something
you know about

a person or thing, you use the simple present tense.

FORMULA
VERBAL SENTENCE




(+) Subject + Verb1 + Object
(s/es)

(-) Subject + do/does not + Verb1
+ Object

(?) Do/Does + Subject + Verb1 +
Object ?

s/es (used by)She, He, It, (Noun) in (+)
sentence

+s/es>>> ss, sh, ch, x, o...
consonant + "Y" >>"i" + es

vocal + "Y" + s

example

Silla goes to school
Silla does not/doesn't go to school

Does she go to school?

QUIZ