Grammar 1
Present simple: affirmative and negative
1 Look at the table. What is different about the he/she/ it forms?
2 Read the spelling rules on page 43. Then write the third person form of these verbs.
1 watch
2 read
3 study
4 go
5 have
6 finish
Pronunciation: [s][z][iz]
a (24) Listen to the verbs.
[s] or [z]
plays meets listens
[iz]
teaches finishes
b (25) Listen and repeat. Which word has the [iz] sound?
1 speaks
2 studies
3 goes
4 lives
5 watches
6 does
3 Choose the correct verb forms.
1 You study English.
2 I don’t go to the beach.
3 My cousin lives in Irkutsk.
4 We don’t play sport on Mondays.
5 I watch TV in the evenings.
6 My mum doesn’t speak English.
4 Complete the texts with the present simple form of the verbs in brackets.
Miguel’s from Tenerife. He uses (use) Globish on the Internet. ‘80% of the world’s internet pages are in English or Globish,’ he (1) says. Miguel (2) studies English at school, but he (3) thinks it’s very difficult.’English has got about 650 000 words, but Globish has only got 1500 words!’
Fact
1.5 billion people in the world (4) speak Globish!
Lidia’s 12 years old and she (5) lives in Krasnodar. She’s got a MySpace page, and she (6) listens to music online. ‘I also (7) write to people in the USA,’she says.’ But I (8) don’t meet my American friends in person!’
Fact
MySpace has got websites in over 20 countries.
5 Read the texts again. Correct the sentences. Write one negative and one affirmative sentence.
Miguel uses Spanish on the Internet. Miguel doesn’t use Spanish on the internet. He uses Globish.
1 Miguel studies Chinese at school.
2 He thinks English is very easy.
3 15 billion people speak Globish.
4 Lidia lives in Tenerife.
5 She watches videos online.
6 She writes to people in Japan.
Look!
Word order
In English we don’t change the word order:
subject + verb + object
My friends play volleyball.
They don’t play golf.
6 Order the words to make sentences. Then identify the subject, verb an: object.
football / doesn’t like / David David doesn’t like football, subject verb object
1 live / My / in / Canada / cousins
2 speak / French / They
3 watch / grandmother / television / My / doesn’t
4 prefers / She / radio / the
7 Your voice What about your family? Speak about it.
My mum doesn’t listen to music. My brother reads comics.