一、一般现在时
1.概念:表示现在发生的动作、情况、状态和特征。经常性、习惯性动作。
标志词:often, sometimes, usually, always, occasionally等和时间状语如 in the evening, at night, twice a month, on Sundays, every day/week/month/year,等。
用法:
.客观事实和普遍真理。
The earth runs around the sun.
表示一个按规定、计划或安排要发生的动作,可以与表示未来时间的状语搭配使用 。常见的用法是:飞机、火车、轮船、汽车等定期定点运行的交通方式。
The next train leaves at 3 o'clock this afternoon.
下一趟火车今天下午3点开车。
How often does this shuttle bus run?
这班车多久一趟?
When you have finished the report, I will have waited for about 3 hours.
等你完成这份报告的时候,我就已经等了将近3个小时了。
This is just what I am going to say.
这正是我想说的。
例:Don't worry, I am about to make a close examination on you.
别担心,我马上就给你做一次仔细的检查。
例:Don't worry, you won't miss her. She will be wearing a red T-shirt and a white skirt at that time.
别担心,你不会认不出她的。她到时会穿一件红色的T恤衫和一条白色的短裙。
时态习题:
1. While we __________ for the bus, a girl __________ up to us.
2. I __________ a friend when Bob __________ in.
3. Jim __________ on the bus as it __________ away.
4. We __________ the new machine when the electricity __________ off.
5. She __________ to stay in bed while the others ________________ in the fields.
6. While mother ________ Cathy to bed, the door bell ________ .
7. As I __________ in the park, it __________ to rain.
8. Even when she ___________ a child she ________________ of becoming a ballerina .