C1 GRAMMAR BANK: Present Simple

Recursos Humanos RRHH Digital What level of knowledge is necessary to master a C1 level regarding the use of the Present Tenses? Here you have a guide:
You use the PRESENT SIMPLE to talk about:
• Facts that are always true.
Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.
• Something that is regular, such as a routine, custom or habit.
In Madrid, the tourists meet in Puerta del Sol to start their walking tours.
Every Friday we finish work at 15:00.
• States.
I don’t like gangster films.
• Events in a story (plots, historic present) or a commentary on a game.
…after 10 minutes, the protagonist gets hurt in a car crash.
When the second part begins my team scores a goal.
• To criticize behavior with just.
He just watches movies all Sunday.
You just don’t listen.
• With state verbs and event verbs (action or dynamic) which describe a
continuing state (not normally used in continuous form).

• To make declarations.
I bet you don’t know the answer!
I hereby declare this school open.
• Headlines (somewhat telegram style with past references simplified to
present).
Ship sinks in midnight collision.
• Instructions and itineraries (more personal note that in Imperative).
First you roll out the pastry.
On day one we visit Cambridge.

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