 We'll begin our examination of all the tenses by first looking at the present tense. There are four present tenses and we'll begin with the present simple tense. It's the most common tense in the English language as it talks about things in general, general facts, routines, habits. Those are usages that we'll look at in a little while, but first let's focus on the form of the tense. Here we've got our subjects. I, you, we, they, and the base form of the verb followed by the rest of our sentence. Here for the he, she, and it subjects, we have to conjugate our verb and in this case we've added an es for teachers followed by the rest of our sentence. With subjects I, you, we, and they, the pattern stays the same throughout. We use the base form of the verb. However, with subjects he, she, and it, we have some patterns for verb conjugations that we need to have a look at. First and most common we added simply an s for verbs like work, play. This is what we typically see within our language. However, when we have verbs with spelling patterns such as ending in ch, sh, z, s, and our shorter verbs do and go, we have to add our es. Then for verbs that end in a consonant and y, we drop our y and add our i-e-s. Finally, we have our irregular verbs b and have. For subject I, we use am. For the subject he, she, and it, we use is whereas with you, we, and they, we use are. Finally, we have have which stays as have for these subjects i, you, we, and they but for he, she, and it, we change have to has.