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PRESENT CONTINUOUS
Complete the sentences use the verbs

build cook go have stand stay swim work

1. Please be quiet! I__________________

2. ‘Where’s John?’ ‘He’s in the kitchen. He____________________
3. ‘You________________on my foot’ ‘Oh, I’m sorry.’
4. Look! Somebody______________________ in the river.
5. We’re on holiday. We ___________________at the Central hotel.
6. ‘Where’s Susan?’ ‘She______________________a shower’
7. They___________________________a new hotel in the city centre at the moment.
8. I______________. Goodbye.

PRESENT SIMPLE
Write sentences from these words. Use the right form of the verb (arrive or arrives,
etc.)

1. (always/early/Sue/ arrive) ___________________________________________________

2. (to the cinema/ never/ I / go)______________________________________________

3. (work/ Martina/ hard/always)______________________________________________

4. (like/ chocolate/ children/usually)__________________________________________

5. (Jackie/ parties (/enjoy /always)________________________________________________

6. (often/ people’s names / I / forget)___________________________________________

7. ( TV / Sam / watch / never)____________________________________________________

8. (usually / dinner / we / have / at 7.30)________________________________________

9. (Kate/ always /wear / nice clothes)____________________________________________

Make questions from these verbs + do/does. Put the words in the right order.

1. (where / live/ your parents)_______________________________________________

2. (your / early / always / get up)_____________________________________________
3. (how often / TV / you / watch)______________________________________________
4. (you / want / what / for dinner)_______________________________________________
5. (like / you / football)__________________________________________________________
6. (your brother / like / football)_________________________________________________

PAST SIMPLE OF BE: WAS / WERE

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Complete the gaps
Present simple Past simple
He is the king. He the king.
She is divorced. She divorced.
They are happy. They happy.

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PAST SIMPLE: REGULAR VERBS.
Complete the chart and answer questions 1-3
Present simple Past simple
They want to go to the They to go to the match.
match.
They don’t talk to the taxi They to the taxi driver.
driver.
Where do you want to go? Where to go?

1. What letters do you add to a regular verb in the past simple, e.g. call?
2. What do you do if the letter ends in e?
3. What happens to the verbs, which end with one vowel and one consonant, e.g.
chat, stop?

VOCABULARY PAST TIME

EXPRESSIONS.
Number the past time
expressions 1-10.
( )Yesterday morning.
( )Last night.
( )Last month.
( )Three days ago.
( )Five minutes ago.
( ) ( )Last week.
( )Last summer.
( )The day before yesterday.
( )A year ago.
( )In 2009.
Past time expressios.

We say last week, last month NOT the last week, the
last month.

WRITING
Answer the questions. Write the
answers.
When was the last time you…?
 cried at the end of a film.
 travelled by plane.
 started a new hobby.
 walked more than 10 km.

Order the words to make questions.

1. you / did / night / TV / What / on / last / watch
2. A What did you watch on TV last night?
3. B I watched the news.
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4. did / match / the / time / finish / What
A ?
B At six o’clock.

5. your / presents / birthday / like / you / Did

A ?
B Yes, I did. They were great!
6. did / university / your / at / brother / What / study
A ?
B Modern Languages.

7. parents / your / arrive / late / Did

A ?
B No, they didn’t. They were early.

PAST SIMPLE: IRREGULAR VERBS.

Write the past tense of these irregular verbs.
can could
come
feel
get
go
have
hear
know
leave
lose
meet
see
speak
teach
wear

Change the sentences from the present to the past.

1 We meet in a café. (last night)

We met in a café last night.

2 Max sees his friends after work. (last night)

3 Emily loses her keys. (yesterday)

4 We don’t have dinner at home. (last night)

5 They leave work at 5:30. (yesterday)

6 Alex doesn’t get up early. (yesterday morning)

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7 My girlfriend feels ill. (yesterday)

8 Helen doesn’t go out during the week. (last week)

9 I don’t wear glasses. (yesterday)

10 Lucy can’t come to my party. (last year)

WRITING
Write about your last night. Write 50 words about it.

PAST SIMPLE: REGULAR AND IRREGULAR

Write the past simple form + and – for each verb.

come kill close speak sleep sit hate walk
example
+ came -
didn´t come
1.

EXERCISE
Complete the sentences with the past simple form of the verbs in the box.

buy find break hear make take can lose meet think

1. Last night we heard a noise downstairs.

2. They the man´s daughter was the murderer.

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3. The policeman the money in an old bag.
4. They their friends outside the restaurant.
5. I a detective story in the bookshop.
6. My girlfriend her mobile phone las night.
7. The man a window and went into the house.
8. Somebody my laptop when I was out of the room.
9. We were worried because we see a police car outside our house.
10. I was thirsty so I a cup of tea.

THERE IS / THERE ARE

Complete the chart.

singular plural
+ There´s a garden There some families in the
village.
- There a dishwasher. They aren´t any neighbours.
? a garage? any neighbours?

What´s the difference between..?

1 There are three families in the village.
2 There are some families in the you live village.

EXERCISE
Write the sentences in the plural using some or any.
1. There´s an armchair in the living room. There are some armchairs in the living room.
2. Is there a carpet downstairs?

3. There´s CD on the shelf.

4. Is there a glass in the cupboard?

5. There isn´t a file in the study.

WRITING Describing your home.

Write a description of your house or flat.

THERE WAS / THERE WERE

Complete the sentences with was, wasn´t, were, or weren´t.

1 There many other guests in the

hotel.
2 There only three.
3 There an old TV on a

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table.
4 There a remote
control.

Complete the dialogue with a form of there was / there were.

A Did you have a good holiday?

B Not really. There was a problem with my hotel.
A Oh dear. What happened?
B Well, we couldn´t swim because a swimming pool. And any restaurants near
the hotel.
A a minibar in you room?
B No, a minibar and a television. The only thing in my room was the
bed!
A Oh. a bathroom?
B Yes, but any clean towels. Everything was very dirty.
A any nice people in the hotel?
B Yes, some great people, but they all felt same as me – very angry!

GRAMMAR
Circle a, b or c
1.The Brontë sisters all writers.
a. was b. were c. is
2. Where Shakespeare born?
a. was b. were c. is
3. the tickets expensive?
a. Was b. Were c. Did
4. I a good film on TV last night.
a. watched b. watch c. watches

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5. They at Stamford Bridge stadium.
a. didn’t arrived
b. don’t arrived
c. didn’t arrive
6. you see the football match last night?
a. Did b. Do c. Was
7. We to Istanbul three years ago.
a. go b. were c. went
a. When in Los Angeles?
b. did you lived
c. did you live
8. I you at the party last night.
a. didn’t saw b. didn’t see c. don’t saw
9. What time home?
a. did you get b. you did get c. you got
10. a big table in the living room.
a. There are b. There is c. It is
11. How many bedrooms ?
a. there are b. are there c. are they
12. There aren’t pictures on the walls.
a. any b. some c. a
13. only three guests in the dining room.
a. There was b. There were c. There is
14. How many people in the hotel?
a. there were
b. was there
c. were there

VOCABULARY
a. Complete the professions with –er, -or, -ist, or –ian.
1. act 3. paint 5. scient
2. art 4. music

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READING
CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THIS TEXT?
Read the text and mark the sentences T (true) or F (false).
1. Arthur Conan Doyle was Scottish, but he worked in England.
2. He started writing stories about Sherlock Holmes at university.
3. Conan Doyle lived at 221b Baker Street in London.
4. In 1893 he didn’t want to write more Sherlock Holmes stories.
5. Sherlock Holmes didn’t die in Austria.
6. Sherlock Holmes is very popular today.

The man who wrote SHERLOCK HOLMES

Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh on 22nd May 1859. He studied medicine at
Edinburgh University and as a student he began writing short stories. He became a doctor
in the south of England, but at first he didn’t have many patients. So in his free time he began
writing stories about a brilliant detective, Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle based Holmes’
personality on his professor at university. Holmes, who lives at 221b Baker Street in London,
is famous for solving difficult crimes and mysteries using his great intelligence. The Sherlock
Holmes stories soon became very popular, but in 1893 Conn Doyle became tired of his
detective, and decided to “kill” him. In The Final Problem Sherlock Holmes and his enemy,
Professor Moriarty, die when they fall off the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland.

But people were very unhappy to lose Sherlock Holmes, and there were letters in many
newspapers asking for him to come back. Finally, in 1901 Conan Doyle brought him back
in a new story, The Hound of the Baskervilles. He explained that Holmes did not die in the
Reichenbach Falls, but miraculously survived.

Conan Doyle die don 7th July 1930, but Sherlock Holmes continues to live both in
the stories and in many film versions. Recently he was the inspiration for the
character Dr Gregory House in the TV series House.
SPEAKING
CAN YOU SAY THIS IN ENGLISH? Be sure you
check each one. Can you…?
1. Say three things about a famous (dead) person from your country.
2. Say five things you did last week, using past time expressions, e.g. last night,
yesterday, (three)
days ago, etc.

3. Say where and when you were born

4. Ask your partner five questions about yesterday

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COUNTABLE / UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS; A / AN, SOME / ANY
Complete the gaps with a, an, or some.
1 strawberry.
2 tomate.
3 rice.
4 biscuits.
5 onion.

Make sentences with there´s a / an / some… and there are some… Choose food and
drink from

EXERCISE

COUNTABLE / UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS / A / AN,

SOME / ANY.
Complete the dialogue with a, an, some, or any.
A What do we need to buy for our dinner party? Let´s
make a list.
B Well, I want to make a lasagne, so we need
pasta and meat.
A Pasta … and meat. What about tomatoes? Are there
tomatoes in the fridge?
B Let´s have a look. There´s onion, but there aren´t
tomatoes. Put those on the list, too.
A Right … tomatoes. Is there _ cheese?
B Yes, there´s mozzarella cheese, so that´s perfect.
A Let´s have salad with the lasagne.
B OK. Then we need to buy lettuce.
A What about dessert? Is there fruit?
B No, there isn´t. Let´s get strawberries.

Quantifiers: how much / how many, a lot of, etc.

a Look at the pictures at the bottom of the page.

Then ask and answer questions about the food.

a lot quite a lot a little none

A. How much sugar is there B. I’m not sure. I think there’s a lot.

in dark chocolate?

Complete the sentences with a food or drink. Use food containers.

1 There isn’t any salt in .

2 There’s a little sugar in .

3 There’s quite a lot of salt in .
4 There’s a lot of sugar in .
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FOOD CONTAINERS.
Unscramble the words to make food containers.

1. Rja jar
2. Bxo
3. Rncoat
4. Nit
5. Cpeatk
6. Nca
7. Totble

Complete the sentences with a container from a.

1. She was thirsty, so she bought a can of fizzy drink.

2. Do you need the scissors to open the of juice?
3. He took he of strawberry jam out of the cupboard.
4. There is small of crisps in that big bag.
5. We always take a of water when we go for a walk.
6. They made some sandwiches with a of tuna.

VOCABULARY
a. Circle the word that is different.

1. breakfast lunch desssert dinner

2. strawbwerries mushroom onions peas
3. orange juice sugar milk mineral water
4. crisps chips tomatoes potatoes
5. fruit salad ice cream cake chicken

b. Match the food and the containers.

beer fruit juice rice tomatoes honey

1. a can of
3. a jar of 5. a carton of
2. a tin of
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c. Complete the phrases with these verbs.

become fall get go have meet move see show stay

1. in a hotel. 6. the sights in a city.

2. by bus. 7. somebody new.
3. famous. 8. somebody round your city.
4. married. 9. a great meal.
5. in love. 10. house.

READING
. Read the article once. Then read it again and choose a, b, or c.
1. In British supermarkets people now .
a. buy more healthy food than before

b. buy less healthy food than before

c. buy the same kind of food they bought before

2. When people have a problem or big change in their lives they often .
a. eat unhealthy b. eat a lot c. eat healthy food
3. If you want to eat healthily, you need to .
a. spend a lot of money b. learn to cook c. stop worrying about what you eat
The British diet

-STILL UNHEALTHY-
Britain has a problem with obesity (more than 50% of the population are fat or
overweight) and the government says we need to have a healthier diet. However, British
shoppers are continuing to fill their supermarket baskets with unhealthy food.
A survey of 12 million consumers showed that 44 per cent of people have the same
unhealthy eating habits that they had four years ago. The survey also found that shoppers
who normally have a very healthy diet start buying junk food, e.g. frozen pizzas, crisps,
and cakes, if there is a crisis in their lives, for example divorce, moving house, or losing a
job.

Another thing the survey showed is that there is not much difference in price between a
healthy shopping basket and an unhealthy one. A typical healthy basket costs, on average,
£71.78 compared with £71.18 for an unhealthy one. Martin Hayward, the director of the
study said "Many people don´t eat healthily because they worry that healthy food is more
expensive, but the survey shows that this is not true. We believe the reason why some
people eat unhealthily is because they don´t know how to cook so they buy ready- made
meals".

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LISTENING

Listen to five people and answer the questions.

1. Yvonne doesn´t eat much .

a. fruit b. sugar c. salt

2. Alison is good at cooking _
food.
a. Italian b. Indian c. Indonesian
3. Joel likes Barcelona because there are a lot of .

a. great shops b. great buildings c. great beaches

4. Andy is going to travel for .

a. a month b. three months c. three weeks

5. When Arja compares the US to her country she doesn´t mention .
a. the food b. the buildings c. the weather

SPEAKING

CAN YOU SAY THI IN ENGLISH?

Can you…?

1. Say what you usually have for breakfast

2. Compare your country with the UK in three ways
3. Ask your partner four questions with the superlative of the bold adjective
• What´s present you´ve ever bought? Expensive
• What´s film you´ve ever had? Bad
• What´s place you´ve ever been to? Cold

ADVERBS

Complete the rules with before or after.

1 Some adverbs describe how people do

things. They go the verb or verb
phrase.
2 Some adverbs describe another adverb (or
adjective). They go the adverb (or
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SPEAKING
Be sure you can answer these questions. Practice them.
1. What kind of music do you like?
2. What book are you reading at the moment?
3. Who’s your favorite historical character?
4. What time do you usually get up in the morning?
5. How much time do you spend a day on the internet?
6. How do you relax?
7. What´s your favorite room in the house?
8. What do you always have on your desk?
9. Do you have any pets?
10. What languages do you speak?

11. Can you play a musical instrument?

12. Is there something you would like to learn to do?

13. What’s your favorite place in London?

14. Where are you going to go for your next holiday?

15. What’s the most beautiful city you’ve ever visited?

16. What was your first job?

17. When did you first read The Lord of the Rings?

18. What was the best and worst thing about filming The Lord of the Rings?

READING

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CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THIS TEXT?
Read the text and mark the sentences T (true) or F (false)

1 It is cheaper to live in the US than in the UK.

2 It is more expensive to be ill in the US.

3 Waiters are better in UK restaurants.

4 It’s more difficult to make friends in the US.

5 The British are less direct than Americans.

AMY JOHNSON is an American who lives and works in England. We asked her to tell us about her first
impressions of the UK.

One of my first impressions was that the UK is more expensive than the US. I live in Oxford and the cost of
.) is higher
cheaper than
here in Ohio, where
is healthcare – it’sI’m from
free in to
to go thethe
US.doctor’s
The onlyorthing that is awhereas
to hospital, lot in the US it isn’t, so you
need to have health insurance, which can be very expensive.

I think you can eat very well in England – there’s a wide variety of food from all around the world – Chinese,
Japanese, Italian, Turkish, etc. – but eating out is more expensive than in the US, and the service is worse.
Generally, I’d say British food is healthier than American food, and the portions are a lot smaller, too.

As for the people, I find British people quite pessimistic compared to Americans who are usually very
positive and optimistic about the future. Also, when I’m in Ohio I talk to everybody: shop assistants, the
person behind me in the supermarket queue, the person

sitting next to me in the restaurant, but I can’t do that in the UK – people are much more reserved. But, on
the other hand, I think it is easier to

Nota: Los ejercicios y las lecturas han sido adaptados de los textos English file
elementary, Oxford y de Essential gramar in use, Cambridge.

Referencias bibliograficas

1. Latham-Koenig, et al, English File elementary workbook, Oxford university

press, third edition 2012.

2. Murphy, Raymond, Essential grammar in use. Cambridge, Fourth edition. 2015.

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