Simple Present Tense - ESL worksheet by mrmatura - Free Printable

Exercise I: Simple Present Tense

#### Mr. Smith
1. Mr. Smith is a very good teacher.
2. He works in a primary school where he teaches mathematics and physics.
3. His students always listen to him with great interest.
4. They always do their homework regularly.
5. If they don’t know how to do an exercise, Mr. Smith doesn’t shout at them but tries to help them.
6. He smiles a lot, and his students like him for that.
7. Mr. Smith’s wife also works in that school, but she isn’t a teacher. She is a secretary.
8. Mr. Smith often spends a lot of time with students.
9. He organizes short trips from time to time.
10. He also has extra lessons for more ambitious students.
11. He does it for free. He doesn’t do it for money. He just loves being with students.
12. Apart from school, Mr. Smith is a very hardworking person.
13. When he comes back from work, he helps his wife at home.
14. They cook dinner together; they clean the rooms, etc.
15. However, Mr. Smith doesn’t do shopping. His wife always does it on her way home.
16. They live happily together.

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Exercise II: Simple Present Tense

#### Mr. Couch
1. Mr. Couch is a very lazy person.
2. He doesn’t go out very much. He prefers to watch TV all day long.
3. He hardly finds time to clean the room. That’s why his room looks very dirty.
4. He doesn’t have a wife. He thinks that wives aren’t necessary in life.
5. Apart from all that, he eats a lot. He can eat many pizzas during one day.
6. He orders food from fast food restaurants because he hates cooking.
7. Moreover, he loves drinking beer. His belly becomes bigger and bigger every day, but he doesn’t mind that.
8. He says that he is very happy.
9. His friends visit him sometimes. They come to his house when there is a football match on TV.
10. He enjoys watching matches with them because they always make funny remarks.
11. He laughs a lot together with them. They don’t stay at his house until late hours because their wives always tell them to come home right after the match.
12. Besides, they go to work the following day. However, Mr. Couch doesn’t have to go to work because he retired two years ago.
13. His best friend, Ted, calls him “a couch potato,” but he isn’t angry at him for that.
14. He knows that Ted doesn’t do it to make him sad or furious but he does it just for fun.

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Explanation:

The task involves filling in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs in the Simple Present Tense. The Simple Present Tense is used to describe habitual actions, general truths, or routines. Here are the key rules applied:

1. Regular Verbs: Most verbs in the Simple Present Tense follow the pattern:
- Singular subjects (e.g., "he," "she," "it") add -s or -es to the base form of the verb.
- Example: "He works," "She listens."
- Plural subjects (e.g., "they," "we," "you") use the base form of the verb.
- Example: "They listen," "We work."

2. Irregular Verbs: Some verbs have irregular forms in the Simple Present Tense.
- Example: "is" (singular), "are" (plural).

3. Negative Form: To form the negative, use do not (don’t) for plural subjects and does not (doesn’t) for singular subjects.
- Example: "He doesn’t know," "They don’t go."

4. Question Form: Use do for plural subjects and does for singular subjects.
- Example: "Does he know?" "Do they go?"

By applying these rules, each blank was filled with the appropriate form of the verb to maintain grammatical correctness in the Simple Present Tense.

Final Answer:

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