Teach English in Shengli Nongchang - Maoming Shi

There are three tenses in English: the present, the past, and the future. Each of these has the simple, the continuous, the perfect, and the perfect continuous forms, which make a total of twelve tenses in English. This unit teaches about the present simple tense and their four aspects focusing on their structures (including affirmative, negative, and questions), usages, teaching ideas, and common student errors. The first is the present simple tense. It is formed with the base form of the verb for the subjects I, You, He, She, It, We, and They; for the third person singular subjects (he, she, it), an -s / -es must be added to the verb according to the rules. Some of the present simple common uses are habits or routine, general facts or truths, and directions or instructions. The second present tense is the present continuous. This tense requires the auxiliary \"be\" verb in present followed by the main verb plus -ing. Its usages include actions in progress at the time of speaking; also, we can use it to emphasize very frequent actions. Be careful using non-action verbs because they cannot be used in the continuous form. Next, is the present perfect tense, which is used by using the helping verb \"have\" followed by the past participle. We may use this tense to talk about indefinite finished actions that begin in the past and refer to general non-detailed experiences. Also, we may use it to describe past actions that have present results. The main function of the present perfect tense is to relate actions that begin in the past and are connected to the present in some way. The last tense is the present perfect continuous. It uses a combination of the present perfect and the present continuous usages to express a continuing action up until the present time. It is constructed using two auxiliary verbs, first 'have\" or \"has\" and then \"been\