Present English Tenses

PRESENT TENSE

The simple present is used:

1. to express habits, general truths, repeated actions or unchanging situations, emotions and wishes:

I smoke (habit); I work in London (unchanging situation); London is a large city (general truth)

2. to give instructions or directions:

You walk for two hundred meters, then you turn left.

3. to express fixed arrangements, present or future:

Your exam starts at 09.00

4. to express future time, after some conjunctions: after, when, before, as soon as, until:

He'll give it to you when you come next Saturday.