1、定义:表示经常发生或习惯性的动作、状态。句中通常有usually,often,every day,sometimes,always,at weekends,on Sundays等表示经常性时间的短语。

2、构成

当谓语是be动词时,一般现在时的构成:主语+be动词+其他

如:I am a student. He is Jim‟s father. They are from Japan.

当谓语是行为动词时,一般现在时的构成

①主语(非第三人称单数)+动词原形+其他

如:I often watch TV at the weekends.

Mr Green and Mrs Green like collecting stamps.

②主语(第三人称单数)+动词的第三人称单数形式+其他

如:Jim usually visits his grandparents on Sundays.

She sometimes goes to the park with her mother.

3、动词三单形式的变化规则

① 一般情况下,直接加s 如:read-reads,swim-swims

② 以s,x,sh,ch,o结尾,加es 如:wash-washes,watch-watches,do-does

③ 以辅音字母+y结尾,变y为i,再加es 如:study-studies,fly-flies

④ 不规则变化 如:have-has

4、一般现在时的句型转换

肯定句 否定句 一般疑问句及回答

They watch TV

every day.

They don’t watch TV

 every day.

—Do they watch TV every day?

—Yes, they do. / No, they don’t.

She watches TV

every day.

She doesn’t watch TV

every day.

— Does she watch TV every day?

 —Yes, she does. / No, she doesn’t.