- •Present simple
- •I. Listening and reading
- •II. Vocabulary
- •III. Comprehension check
- •1. Answer the questions:
- •IV. Grammar: The Present simple Tense (простое Настоящее время)
- •3. Структура предложений в present simple Cтруктура повествовательного предложения
- •Структура отрицательного предложения
- •Структура вопросительного предложения
- •Exercises
- •1. Put the verbs in the brackets into Present Simple.
- •2. Write true sentences.
- •3. Look at this questionnaire on Internet use. Put the words in brackets in the right sequence, and use do or does to write the questions.
- •4. Open the brackets and put the verbs into Present Simple
- •5. Work in pairs. Interview Julia Thomas.
- •6. Put the adverbs in the brackets in the appropriate place.
- •8 Match the answers and the questions.
- •9 Look at the information about Andrew, Peter, and Lucy. Then form the question or the reply.
- •Banker's Wife's Blues
Exercises
1. Put the verbs in the brackets into Present Simple.
A. My working day (to begin) at seven o'clock. I (to get) up, (to wash) my face and (to brush) my teeth. At half past seven we (to have) breakfast. My Dad and I (to leave) home at eight o'clock. I (to go) to school and my Dad (to go) to his office. My Mum (to be) a doctor, she (to leave) home at nine o'clock. In the evening we (to gather) in the living room. We (to watch) TV and (to talk).
B. My sister (to get) up at eight o'clock. For breakfast she (to have) two eggs, a sandwich and a cup of tea. She (to be) a schoolgirl. After breakfast she (to go) to school. She (to speak) French well.
C. Andrea Schatzmann, an exchange student from Germany, (to live) with the Connor family in San Francisco. She (to get) up at 7 am and (to take) a shower. She normally (not to have) breakfast. At half past seven she (to catch) the bus. Her first class (to start) at a quarter past eight. She always (to have) lunch at 12 o'clock in the cafeteria. The cafeteria food (to be) OK and it (to be) cheap too. Her afternoon classes (to be) from 1.15 till 3.00 pm, so she (to be) at school all day. She usually (to have) dinner with the Connors at about 8.00. On Saturdays she (to have) lunch at the restaurant. Once a week, usually on Sunday mornings, she (to go) swimming. A few friends usually (to go) along, too. One of her friends has got a car, so he (to pick) them up and then he (to drive) them home. After swimming they often (to go) out for a pizza. On Saturday evenings she sometimes (to go) out with friends to a party or maybe to a concert. Sometimes she (to invite) friends to her house and they (to listen) to music and (to talk). Mr and Mrs Connor often (to take) them for a camping weekend to the seaside or to the mountains. From time to time she (to call) her family in Germany. She usually (to call) them on Sundays.
D. What time Andrea usually (to get) up? When she (to catch) the bus? She (to take) a shower in the morning? She (to go) home for lunch? When she (to go) swimming? What she (to do) on Saturday evenings?
2. Write true sentences.
(I / wash / my hair /every day) I do not wash my hair every day….……………...
(It / snow / here / in summer)…………. ……………………………………........
(The earth / go / around / the sun)..………………………………………………
(I / have / dinner / in the evening) ………………………………………………..
(My / friend / have / a car) ………………………………………………………
(I / learn / Chinese) ……………………………………………………………….
(My parents / listen / to the radio / every morning) ……………...………………
(My Dad / smoke / 30 cigarettes / a day) ………………………………………..
(The Ob River / flow / into / the Pacific Ocean) …………………………………
(We / live / in Paris) …………………………………………………………….
(Mice / catch / cats) ….………………………………………………………….
3. Look at this questionnaire on Internet use. Put the words in brackets in the right sequence, and use do or does to write the questions.
(use / you / the Internet / ?) ……………………………………………………..
(use / your friends / the Internet / ?) …………………………………………….
(you / use / why / the Internet / ?) ……………………………………………...
(think / you / that the Internet is easy to use / ?) ………………………………..
(give you / the Internet / useful information / ?) ……………………………….
(you / things / buy / on the Internet / ?) …………………………………………
(sell / things / you or your friends / on the Internet / ?)………………………….
(music / your friends / download / from the Internet / ?) ……………………….
(your parents / the Internet / like / ?)…………………………………………….
(the Internet / you / think / is a good things / ?)………………………………...