Present Simple

Listening

Present Tenses

• Present Simple

• Present Continuous

Present Simple

• repeated actions

• facts, generalizations

• scheduled events in the near future

• now (with non continuous verbs)

Stative, non-continuous verbs

• emotions

• senses

• possessions

• thought

Mixed verbs

• can be both stative and dynamic

• look

• feel

• smell

• taste

• appear

• have

Present Continuous

• actions happening now

• longer actions in progress

• irritation with always

• actions in the near future / personal arrangements