Present tenses • have/don’t have

Things in the house

Writing—describing a person
The way we live

Present Simple
1 Making negatives
A T 2.1 Correct the sentences.
1. The sun rises in the west.
The sun doesn’t rise in the west. It rises in the east.
2. The president of the United States lives in Alaska.

3. Soccer players wear long pants.

4. Kangaroos come from Canada.

5. The sun shines at night.

6. In London people drive on the right.

2 Making questions
A T 2.2 Write the questions.
1. I get up at .
What time do you get up?
2. On weekends I usually go to .
?
3. The bank opens at .
?
4. My mother comes from .
?
5. My children go to school.
Which ?
6. My brother works in .
Where ?
7. My sister drives a .
What kind of ?

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3 Short answers
Answer the questions about you.
Use short answers.
1. Do you play tennis?
Yes, I do. / No, I don’t.
2. Do you like science fiction?

3. Do you dream a lot?

4. Do you listen to the radio?

5. Do your parents read a lot?

6. Does your teacher give you a lot of

homework?

7. Does it rain a lot in your country?

4 Third person singular 5 Adverbs of frequency

Write the third person singular of these verbs. Put the words in the correct order.
1. help helps 1. movies/you/to/often/go/the/do/how?
2. watch watches How often do you go to the movies?
3. want 2. meat/never/eat/I/because/don’t/I/it/like
4. go
5. carry 3. listen/evening/the/to/parents/radio/the/my/always/in
6. catch
7. think 4. vacation/how/do/take/often/a/you/?
8. crash
9. wash 5. sometimes/restaurant/we/Japanese/go/a/to
10. read
11. do 6. for/late/never/am/school/I
12. fly
13. study
14. kiss
15. eat
16. have
17. cry

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Present Simple 8 What does she do? or What is she doing?
or Continuous? A T 2.3 Look at the picture and answer the questions.

6 Spelling of the present participle

I’m Frank.
Write the -ing form of these verbs. I’m Lisa.
I’m a waiter.
1. read reading I’m a chef.
2. swim swimming
3. come coming
4. rain
5. wear
6. think
7. shine
8. smoke
I’m Tony. I’m a
9. have taxi driver.
10. take
11. wait
12. get
13. stop I’m Wendy.
14. run I’m a nurse.
15. begin

7 Choosing the correct form

Choose the correct form of the verb.
1. I go / am going to work now.
Good-bye!
2. I read / am reading a book
about astrology.
3. I read / am reading lots of books
every year.
4. We go / are going to a party
on Saturday.
5. Nurses look / are looking
1. What does Wendy do? She’s a nurse.
after people in the hospital.
6. Mei-Li comes / is coming 2. Is she working in the hospital now? No, she isn’t.
from Taiwan. 3. What’s she doing? She’s having dinner.
7. She comes / is coming 4. What does Frank do?
for dinner tonight.
5. Is he working in a restaurant now?
8. I speak / am speaking four
languages. 6. What’s he doing?
9. Do you want / Are you wanting 7. What does Tony do?
to go out tonight? 8. Is he driving a taxi now?
9. What’s he doing?
10. What does Lisa do?
11. Is she working in the kitchen now?
12. What’s she doing?

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have/don’t have 10 Short answers
A T 2.4 Answer the questions
9 Making statements and negatives about Jenny and about you.
Look at the picture of Jenny’s bedroom. Complete the sentences Use short answers.
with has/doesn’t have.
1. Does Jenny have a messy
1. She has a CD player. 6. She a Walkman. bedroom?
2. She a tennis racket. 7. She a cell phone. Yes, she does.
3. She a lot of CDs. 8. She many magazines. 2. Does she have a camera?
4. She a television. 9. She a lot of posters. No, she doesn’t.
5. She a computer. 10. She a sofa. 3. Does she have a lot of clothes?

4. Does she have posters on

her walls?

5. Does she have a computer?

6. Does she have a lamp

in her room?

7. Do you have a bike?

8. Do you have a lot of money?

9. Do you have a CD player?

10. Do you have a good English

accent?

Write some sentences about your bedroom.

I have a bed, but I don’t have a sofa.
I have a radio, but I don’t have a TV.

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 Vocabulary Writing
12 Linking words—but, however, so, because, and
11 Things in the house 1 Complete the sentences with and, so, or but.
Match the words and pictures.
1. She can speak French, she can’t write it.
armchair sofa coffee table 2. He’s going to work in Colombia, he’s
bookshelf carpet rug learning Spanish.
window curtains closet
dresser lamp mirror 3. I went into town. I bought some food I
went to the library.
4. I don’t have a car, I have a motorcycle.
5. She’s working late next Friday, she can’t
1 come to the party.
3

2
5
! But and however can contrast ideas, but they are used
differently. Compare these sentences. What differences
4 can you see?
I learned French easily, but I didn’t like
my teacher.
I learned French easily. However, I
didn’t like my teacher.
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6 2 Join the pairs of sentences in two different ways using

but and however.
1. We enjoyed the vacation. It rained a lot.

2. He’s moving to Toronto next month. He doesn’t

like big cities.
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3. She isn’t English. She speaks English perfectly.

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9 ! So is used to express the result of the statement before.

Because expresses the reason or cause of something.
12 Cause —————————————————-> Result
It started to rain, so we stopped playing tennis.
Result <—————————————————- Cause
1. 7. We stopped playing tennis because it started to rain.
2. 8.
3. 9.
4. 10.
5. 11.
6. 12.

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3 Join the pairs of sentences in two different ways using so and because.
1. She went home. She was tired.
a. b.
2. We didn’t enjoy our vacation. The weather was bad.
a. b.
3. He worked hard. He passed all his exams.
a. b.

13 Describing a person
Complete the text with a linking word from the box. and but so because however

People say I look like my sister (8)

we both have brown eyes (9) dark
hair. (10) , we are very different in
character. She’s very quiet, (11) I’m a
My sister and I are very different, (1) lot more outgoing.
we get along well. She likes staying at home in the
evening (2) watching television with
her boyfriend, (3) I prefer going out
with my friends. We like to go to dance clubs or the
movies. Sometimes we just go to a cafe. I have
exams soon, (4) I’m not going out very
much these days. My sister is six years older than
I am, (5) she works in a bank. She’s
trying to save some money (6) she’s
going to get married this year. Her fiancé’s name is
Frederick, (7) we all call him Freddy.

Write a similar short paragraph about yourself and someone in your family.

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