In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack teach you how to use the present simple tense correctly.

Transcript:

00:00:52

Jack

Like, what's your daily routine?

00:00:55

Xochitl

Yeah, I I think it's. I think it's interesting because we because we, well, I'll tell my daily routine and we can break it out from there, but let's say.

00:01:06

Xochitl

I wake up at 8:00 in the morning. I eat breakfast, I brush my teeth.

00:01:15

Xochitl

And then I get ready for work. Jack, what do you do in the morning?

00:01:19

Jack

I get up at 7:00 in the morning. I brush my teeth first.

00:01:27

Jack

I've I've gotten into that practice recently.

00:01:30

Xochitl

That's interesting. There's like the debate, and we'll have to make that a topic.

00:01:33

Xochitl

Another time, but I mean I mean.

00:01:34

Jack

Yeah. Yeah. Do you brush your teeth before you eat breakfast, or do you brush your teeth after you?

00:01:39

Jack

First umm. So I brush my teeth, I wash my face. I I get dressed and then I go to work. I I teach at my university. I eat lunch. I teach a little bit more. I go home, I eat dinner. I watch Netflix with my wife and then I go to bed.

00:01:59

Jack

And so that's my daily routine. Now, I think where students get confused about what we're talking about here is we're not talking about today.

00:02:09

Jack

We're talking about.

00:02:11

Jack

Everything. Yeah. Yeah. So things that we did in the past, things that we do now and things that we most likely will do in the future, like I don't see my routine changing anytime soon.

00:02:11

Xochitl

Every day.

00:02:28

Jack

And so, because it's a habitual thing.

00:02:33

Jack

We we would put that in, we would use the present simple tense to to describe that.

00:02:39

Jack

And I think it's the easiest. Like grammatically it's the easiest of the tenses because there's only really one rule that you have to remember. And that's when you use **, *** or it as the subject. What happens to the verb when you when you change it to like he or she.

00:02:59

Xochitl

You add that S on the end because you're saying he brushes. She brushes they well. You you change it slightly for brushing teeth. You know, I brush my teeth versus ** *** brushes.

00:03:13

Xochitl

They're here. I'm OK, Jack. I'm gonna let you take over because I'm getting.

00:03:17

Jack

No, no, no. I know exactly what you're saying. So you like? Yeah. So if we use the subjects I, you, we, they you would say like I brush my teeth, we brush our teeth, it brushes its teeth. Although I don't know what that means.

00:03:34

Xochitl

They brush their teeth.

00:03:34

Jack

Or they brush their teeth. But if you use he or she so he brushes his teeth, he gets up, you add an S there he washes his face, he goes to work. Yeah.

00:03:46

Xochitl

Stop.

00:03:50

Xochitl

He watches Netflix, he eats dinner.

00:03:54

Xochitl

She.

00:03:55

Xochitl

Takes hour, so it just kind of changes a little bit.

00:03:59

Jack

Yeah, we call that a inflection, A verb inflection where basically the verb changes a little bit and the inflection is just with an S or an ES. What about study? How would you change that to the present? Simple.

00:04:19

Xochitl

UMI study every day or ** *** studies every day. So you change the Y to IES.

00:04:25

Jack

Right. So.

00:04:28

Jack

There you go. Yep, Y becomes IES. What about the verb have?

00:04:35

Jack

I have breakfast.

00:04:37

Jack

She or he, what would you use there?

00:04:37

Xochitl

Uh.

00:04:39

Xochitl

Has has she? He has breakfast.

00:04:43

Jack

A common mistake that some you know beginners will make is that they'll UM.

00:04:47

Jack

Over generalize the rule so they'll say haves like HAVES but we but that one's an irregular 1, so we have to use has and so they'll just be careful with the verb have when it's with using he or she we use has and.

00:04:51

Xochitl

Yeah.

00:05:07

Jack

That's that one. You just have to memorize. There's just a couple of of strange ones like that.

00:05:14

Jack

Yeah.

00:05:15

Xochitl

Yeah. All right, listeners, I think this one is a pretty simple one. Why don't you practice by writing your daily routines for us in the WeChat and WhatsApp groups, shooting us an e-mail at A-Z, [email protected] or leaving a comment down below on our website at AZ englishpodcast.com and we'll see you guys next time.

00:05:34

Xochitl

Bye.

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