The Way I Teach Present Simple and Present Continuous

Lately I have made a discovery for myself. 

Usually I start teaching tenses for my students with the Present Simple, which is quite logical. It is the first tense you use to say anything in English: your name, your age, where you live, what you like. I thought having students understood their first grammar structure correctly is very nice. From the very first lessons, they would know how to use at least some structure in a right way. Isn't it great? No, it's not. Believe me it's bitter truth for me too.

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Present Simple Presentation

Hi, everyone!
To your attention and for your consideration I present my Presentation which is free for downloading and you're welcomed to improve it your way.

Needless to say you are free to use pictures I provide for most of the posts.

Here is the link to my wonderful presentation:

Present Simple Presentation

I think for now it is my last post on Present Simple. We are moving on other grammar structures!
You are welcomed to study other resources for the same topic: Present Simple Questions, Negatives, Free Worksheet, How to Teach Present Simple and Present Continuous.

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Present Simple Worksheet

I think I should have done this much earlier but still it is better late than never. So I present you very simple worksheet. It contains three exersices to practice Present Simple at elementary level.
Enjoy the link!

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Present Simple Negatives

Don't be too negative about Negatives!!!

Speaking about Present Simple Negatives the only thing you (or your students) need to remember or to explain very clearly is the difference of usage between DO and DOES. I know you've heard hundreds of times. However, it's the number one mistake among top 5.

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Present Simple Questions

Questions are not that difficult!!!

My teacher at school used to say: "... in order to make a question make up a sentence first in your head!" Believe it or not I still use it when I'm stuck in the middle of a talk!

The explanation first, than I will give some very good pieces of advice!

Almost every question in English is based on the structure of general questions. So how do we form a general question? Very simple. Start with the sentence. Let's look at the example.

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Present Simple

Teaching Present Simple Tense for Elementary students seems to be quite easy, but students can ask tricky questions that occasionally confuse even such talented teachers as you are :)

Usage

 The first thing you need to know about Present Simple (to explain it to your students) is that it has some general information or the action has some frequency.

General information

"The Moon goes around the Earth"
"Animals have instincts"

Present Simple action telsl us about some general truth or fact. We don't mean anything specific. Just some general stuff.

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