 Another idea for the present simple tense would be the classic 20 questions. The teacher could frame this into the context of what's my job, who am I, or even what am I for objects. In order to set this activity up, the teacher will ask a student to come to the front of the room and the teacher will give him or her a card. For jobs, the card will obviously have jobs such as doctor or architect or even teacher. From that, the students will have to ask questions to find out the person's job. These typical questions might be, do you work Monday through Friday? Do you work in an office? Do you work with people? The student at the front of the room will also be answering with present simple short answers. Yes, I do. No, I don't. The teacher will give a time limit for each student at the front of the room, perhaps two minutes. At the end of those two minutes, the students in the room will be asking, are you a doctor? Are you an architect? Or even, are you a teacher? Hopefully, by the end of those two minutes, based upon the information given, the students will be able to guess what that job was. The same can also be done for famous people, who am I? Of course, that famous person would still have to be alive as, have they passed away, we would speak about them in the past tense. You can also use it for objects as well.