 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, u, 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, u, 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.