一般现在时(Simple present tense)。表示通常性、规律性、习惯性、真理性的状态或者动作(有时间规律发生的事件)的一种时间状态。

1.表示经常的或习惯性的动作,常与表示频率的时间状语连用。

时间状语:always,usually,every morning/night/evening/day/week/year,often,sometimes,occasionally,from time to time,twice a week,rarely,seldom,once a month,hardly,ever,never.

e.g. I leave home for school at 7:00 every morning.我每天早上7点左右离开家去学校。

2.表示主语具备的性格、能力、特征和状态。

e.g. I don't want so much.我不想要太多。

Ann Wang writes good English but doesn't speak well.王安英语写得很好但是说的不好

比较:Now I put the sugar in the cup.现在我把一些糖放杯子里面。

I am doing my homework now.现在我正在写我的作业。

3.客观真理,客观存在,科学事实。

The earth moves around the sun.地球绕着太阳转。

Shanghai lies in the east of China.上海市在中国的东部。

4.在时间状语从句和条件状语从句中,常用一般现在时代替将来时。

5.表示预先计划或安排好的行为。

6.小说故事用一般现在时代替一般过去时。新闻报道类的内容,为了体现其"新鲜"性,也用一般现在时来表示过去发生的事情。

7.有些表示状态和感觉的动词表示现在发生的具体时间时,只用一般现在时,而不用进行时态。

8.存在的状态

1.动词句型的构成
肯定句:主语 + be动词(am/is/are)...
否定句:主语 + be动词(am/is/are) + not...
疑问句:be动词(am/is/are) + 主语...?
疑问代词/疑问副词 + be动词(am/is/are) + 主语...?
动词的肯定句 句型:
主语 + be动词...
be动词的肯定句由“主语 + be动词(am/is/are) + 表语”构成:
I am a doctor.
我是一名医生。
Mary is at work.
玛丽在工作。
He is very brilliant.
他非常聪明。
动词的否定句
句型:主语 + be动词(am/is/are) + not...
be动词一般现在时的否定句结构,是在be动词am,is,are之后加not:
We aren't her classmates.
我们不是她的同班同学。
I'm not Tom.我不是汤姆。(I'm是I am的缩写,读作/aim/。)
It's not a cat,but a dog.
这不是猫,而是狗。
Things are not always what they seem(to be).
事物并不总是与表象一致。

时态练习:
1. He________ TV every evening. (watch)

2. We always ________ to school on foot. (go)

3. Tom, with his classmates, often ______ football after school. (play)

4. Their classroom _________ four big windows. (have)

5. Your shoes _______ under the bed. (be)

6. Sorry, I_______ no enough money with me now. (have)

7. His uncle usually _________ to work by bus. (go)

8. There _______ no hospitals here ten years ago. (be)

9. I always ______ up at six in the morning, but I _____up a little later yesterday. (get )

10. She _______ swim very well when she was five years old. (can) 11. They ________ in Beijing in 1960. (be)