Simple present tense dan latihannya

Simple present tense

  We use the simple present tense to talk about:

(1)   things that are true now,  e.g. My name is Susie.  I am twelve years old.

(2)   how often we do things,  e.g. Susie and Betty go shopping every Saturday morning.  They usually buy a lot of things.

(3)   Things that are always true,  e.g. Birds have two wings.  They fly very high.

We form positive and negative statements in the simple present tense with the verb ‘to be’ (is/am/are)like this.

Subject	verb ‘to be’
	Positive (+)	Negative (-)
I	am (‘m)	am not (‘m not)
	e.g. I am twelve years old.	e.g. I am not twelve years old.
We You (singular) You(plural) They	are (‘re)	are not (aren’t)
	e.g. We are very good students. You are a handsome boy. You are my friends.	e.g We are not very good students. You are not a handsome boy. You are not my friends.
He She It	is (‘s)	is not (isn’t)
	e.g. He is the class monitor. She is my sister. It is a lovely dog.	e.g. He is not the class monitor She is not my sister. It is not a lovely dog.

Exercise 1

Fill in these sentences using the correct form of the verb ‘to be’ and the words in the brackets.  Then write the words in the blanks.

1.  I_____________ happy.(not)  3.  You _____________ Japanese.(not) 5.  They ____________ busy.(not) 7.  Cheung Chau __________ in Kowloon.(not) 9.  We _______ good friends. 11. You ______ the monitor. 13. He ______ 2 years old.(not)

2. He _________ sad. 4. We __________ Chinese. 6. Tigers _________big cats. 8. His name ______ Billy.. 10. She ______ my mother. 12. I ______ thirteen years old. 14. They ______ good football players.(not)