Present Simple

Start with everyday routines

This Present Simple page brings together a small set of resources within the Daily Routines unit of English language. The resources use familiar activities such as getting up, getting dressed and eating breakfast. They offer school students and primary pupils ways to look at routine vocabulary alongside present simple questions and answers.

A useful starting point is the note about routine activities and completing a chart with your own routine. Read its examples, then use the chart idea to write down activities from your day. You can return to the note as you work through the other resources.

Explore the mind maps

The mind map titled Daily Routines brings vocabulary together with present simple questions and short answers. Look at how it uses “do” and “does” with different people. Then compare its questions with the routine activities you have written down.

Other mind maps connect routine vocabulary with life stories, times of day and everyday activities. One includes examples such as walking the dog and getting dressed. Another organizes a day into morning, afternoon and evening, with activities for writing times and completing routine sentences.

Use a quiz with a map

After looking at the Daily Routines map, try Does + daily routine. Its questions ask about activities such as waking up, getting dressed and going to school. Notice how each question is formed, then return to the map to compare it with the question and short-answer examples.

There is also a quiz about activities at different times of day. Use it alongside a mind map that organizes routines by morning, afternoon and evening. This keeps the Present Simple practice connected to the daily activities covered in the wider Daily Routines unit. Choose a resource and work through it at your own pace.