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    The document discusses the use of the present simple, present continuous, and present perfect simple tenses in English. The present simple is used to talk about permanent situations, general truths, repeated actions, instructions, and future meaning timetables. The present continuous expresses actions happening now, temporary situations, and plans in the near future. The present perfect simple refers to recent past events, unspecified past actions connected to the present, experiences over one's life, emphasis on numbers, and repeated actions from the past to present.

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    The document discusses the use of the present simple, present continuous, and present perfect simple tenses in English. The present simple is used to talk about permanent situations, general truths, repeated actions, instructions, and future meaning timetables. The present continuous expresses actions happening now, temporary situations, and plans in the near future. The present perfect simple refers to recent past events, unspecified past actions connected to the present, experiences over one's life, emphasis on numbers, and repeated actions from the past to present.

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    The document discusses the use of the present simple, present continuous, and present perfect simple tenses in English. The present simple is used to talk about permanent situations, general truths, repeated actions, instructions, and future meaning timetables. The present continuous expresses actions happening now, temporary situations, and plans in the near future. The present perfect simple refers to recent past events, unspecified past actions connected to the present, experiences over one's life, emphasis on numbers, and repeated actions from the past to present.

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    Present Simple

    We use Present Simple to talk about:

    • Permanents Situations

    e.g.: I work in Paris.


    She lives in a flat.

    • General truth or laws of nature


    •
    e.g.: Bees make honey.
    Water bolts at 100º C.

    • Routine or repeated habitual actions. We can use with adverbs of frequency like
    always, often, sometimes, never, usually, rarely, in the afternoon/evening, at
    night.

    e.g.: She goes to the beach every summer.


    I never get up before seven o’clock on Sunday.

    • In spoken instructions, sports commentaries, jokes, formal letters, reviews,


    dramatic narrative.

    e.g.: First put the eggs in the recipient.


    John runs towards the ball.
    I enclose a copy of my curriculum vitae.
    The police enter the bank and catch the thief.

    • Timetables and programmes, with a future meaning.

    e.g.: The plane arrives at 9.00 am.


    Do the classes begin at the same time as last year?

    • In exclamatory sentences

    e.g.: Here comes the teacher!


    It is terrible loud!

    • In time clauses with a feature meaning after when, as soon as, if and until.

    e.g.: I’ll write to her when /as soon as I get home.


    Say “thanks” to Tom if he gives you the book.

    Present Continuous

    We use Present Continuous to talk about:


    • Actions happening at or around the moment of speaking. We can use words like
    now, at the moment, at present, nowadays, today, tonight, still.

    e.g.: They are reading the book at the moment.


    Luke is having lunch now.

    • Temporary situations.

    e.g.: I am working in my father’s restaurant this month.


    Elizabeth is visiting her friend in Italy this week.

    • For an action around the time of speaking, which has begun but is not finished.

    e.g.: We are cooking a cake.


    Margaret is reading a magazine. (She isn’t reading at this moment. She has
    stopped to talk to her mother- but she plans to continue reading later).

    • Plans and fixed arrangements in the near future.

    e.g.: Emily and Peter are travelling to New York tonight.


    Are you doing anything special this weekend?

    • Changing or developing situations.

    e.g.: The level of unemployment is getting worse.


    The pollution in the city is getting worse all the time.

    • With a word like always or continually, to express or to criticize someone.

    e.g.: My younger brother is always leaving his shoes and socks around the house.
    Richard is always loosing his keys.

    Present perfect simple

    We use present perfect simple to talk about

    • Events that happened in the recent past. (Often with just).

    e.g.: Carol has just gone to the supermarket. (She’s there now).
    The train has just arrived.

    • Complete past actions connected to the present. The time is unknown and/or
    irrelevant.

    e.g.: I’ve written a letter. (We do not know when).


    I’ve bought my new car.

    • Experiences or changes which have happened at some time in our life.


    e.g.: I have learnt a lot this year.
    We have been in Athens before.

    • To emphasis on number.

    e.g.: She has read three books this week.


    He has interviewed seven students this morning.

    • When we are describing repeated actions that have continue from some time in
    the past until the present.

    e.g.: You have played the piano every night (= until now, and you will probably to
    continue to play every night).
    Tom has gone to the gym every afternoon.

    • We can use with this tense some time words such as: since, for, already, yet.

    Since: It expresses a starting point.


    e.g.: I have been in love with Bill since July.

    For: It indicates the period of time that the activity has taken.
    e.g.: Mike has lived in Japan for three years.

    Already: It is used in mid or end position in statements or questions.


    e.g.: She has already left.

    Yet: It is used in negative sentences after the contracted auxiliary have or has or at the
    end of the sentence.
    e.g.: Caroline has not phoned yet.

    In questions yet comes only at the end.


    e.g.: Has Peter gone yet?

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