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Le présent simple

- What time do you wake up?
- I wake up at 9.30 am

 

Principaux emplois: vérités permanentes, actions répétitives/habituelles; sentiments

Syntaxe: Ajoutez un -S à la 3ème personne du singulier. Si le verbe se termine par un -y précédé d'une consonne, le -y se change en -ies

 

Exemple:
I wake up
You wake up
He/She/It wakeS up
We wake up
You wake up
They wake up

 

Négation: Utilisez DON'T ou DOESN'T (3ème forme du singulier)
I don't wake up at 9.30 am
She doesn't wake up at 9.30 am

Question: Utilisez DO ou DOES (3ème forme du singulier)
Do you wake up at 9.30?
Does she wake up at 9.30?

 

Réponses:

Do you wake up at 9.30 ?

Réponses longues: Yes, I wake up at 9.30 No, I don't wake up at 9.30
Réponses courtes: Yes, I do. No, I don't.

EXERCISE: Mettre les verbes au présent simple

1. The cinema _______________ (close) at 7 pm.
2. They _______________ (not/think) that you should buy this dress.
3. We usually _______________ (take) a taxi to go to work.
4. How often _______________ (you go) to the swimming-pool?
5. Courses _______________ (begin) the third of September.
6. When _______________ (he arrive) home in the evenings?
7. They _______________ (not/live) in Washington, they _______________ (live) in New York.
8. We usually _______________ (take) a taxi to go to work.
9. He _______________ (get up) early on Mondays.
10. I _______________ (not/believe) in witches.
11. The Sun's rays _______________ (take) eight minutes to reach the Earth.

 

REPONSES
1. closes - 2. do not think = don't think - 3. take - 4. do you go - 5. begin - 6. when does he arrive home? - 7. don't live | live - 8. take - 9. gets up - 10. don't believe - 11. take