Present simple positive 1. What do they do? Write the sentences from the box into the correct columns. He wears a uniform. She works in a clothes shop. He gets up very early and goes to the market. She tests your eyes. He likes fruits and vegetables. He works at a police station. She sells glasses. She helps customers with sizes. She prepares lenses. He tries to prevent crime. He sells fresh organic products. She offers advice about fabrics. He s a policeman. He s a greengrocer. She s a shop assistant. She s an optician. 2. Fill in the gaps with an appropriate verb in the third person singular. a. He a uniform. His uniform is blue. b. She s an air hostess. She all over the world. c. Pete is married and two kids. d. In winter Susan skiing and in spring she golf. e. Bernard in a house in Brussels. f. My nephew television all night long! 1
3. Daily routines. What do you do first of all in the day? And next? What do you do before going to bed? Number the following activities in the correct order according to your own habits. have dinner have breakfast go to school/work get dressed arrive home start lessons/work have a shower comb your hair have lunch leave home watch TV get up finish lessons/work go to bed read a book brush your teeth Present Simple questions and negatives 4. Questions with question words. Match a question in column A with an answer in B. A Where does she live? How many languages does she speak? What does she do in her free time? Who does she play basketball with? Where does she come from? Why does she go cycling? B She goes skiing. Two. German and Italian. Cork. She s Irish. Her three daughters. In a flat in New York. Because she loves sports. 5. Put the words in the correct order to make questions. a. do breakfast does What David before b. for does have breakfast he What c. to How she work does go d. he does What evenings do the in 2
e. bed time does to What he go 6. Now write questions for the underlined answers below. a. Margie goes to bed at quarter past eight. b. She starts work at two in the afternoon. c. She works in a clothes shop. d. She goes hiking in her free time. 7. A questionnaire. Look at the information about Jenny and Will and then do the exercises below. 3
a. Write the questions for these Yes/No answers about Jenny. a. No, she doesn t. She hates carrots. b. Yes, she does. Especially Italian food. c. Yes, she does. She speaks fluent Chinese. d. No, she doesn t. It s a terrible habit! e. Yes, German beer. b. Write short answers to the questions about Will. a. Does he eat vegetables? b. Does he like cooking? c. Does he speak Chinese? d. Does he smoke? e. Does he like beer? c. Complete the sentences about Jenny and Will. a. Jenny vegetables. b. Will cooking. c. He Chinese. d. She smoke. e. He beer. 8. Making negatives. Correct the following sentences. Example The Pope lives in Belgium. No, he doesn t. He lives in Italy. a. Our English teacher speaks horrible English. 4
b. A shop assistant makes bread. c. Our school opens at eight o clock in the evening. d. These exercises teach you French. 9. Verbs and nouns that go together. Match a line from column A with a line from B. A Cook Listen Read Play Live Answer Work B In a restaurant Breakfast The phone A newspaper To the radio In a country house Golf 10. Word groups. Write the words into the correct columns. 5
Adjectives Places Professions Transport 11. What time is it? Write the times. a. It s b. c. d. e. f. g. h. 12. How long does it take? Write sentences using the information in the chart. Example: Haruto goes to work by bus. It takes twenty five minutes. Transport Leaves home Arrives at work Haruto bus 8.00 8.25 Margie train 7.15 8.10 David car 7.00 8.00 Mike bicycle 8.30 9.15 Tom ferry 8.10 9.20 Katie motorbike 8.00 8.35 6
a. Margie b. David c. Mike d. Tom e. Katie Present simple 13. Mike and Ana Fisher. Read about this couple and decide if the sentences below are true or false. Mike Fisher and his wife, Ana, who is Mexican, both work at the King s Hotel in the centre of Edinburgh. Mike is the hotel manager and Ana works in the hotel bistro. Mike says: Thirteen million people visit Edinburgh every year. In our hotel we have sixty rooms and we have visitors from all over the world, especially from Japan and the States. I speak English, Spanish, French and German. I don t speak Japanese. Ana speaks Spanish, of course, English and Japanese. Our guests like doing lots of different things. On a typical day they have breakfast in the hotel restaurant; our breakfast includes bacon and eggs, porridge, tea or coffee and toasts. After breakfast they visit the Castle and go shopping along the Royal Mile. They come back to the hotel at around five, have something to drink and relax. Then in the evening they go to the theatre. We work long hours. I work from six o clock in the morning until half past three in the afternoon and Ana works from five in the evening until half past one in the morning, but we both love our work. We love meeting people of all nationalities. a. A lot of foreign visitors come to the hotel. b. Both Mike and Ana speak French and Japanese. c. The guests have breakfast in bed. d. They visit the Castle in the morning. e. They like shopping in the Castle. f. They have something to drink in the hotel. g. In the evening they relax. h. Mike and Ana don t like their work. 14. Mike and Anna s day. Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Ana and I (a) (live) in a room in the hotel. I (b) (get up) at half past five and I (c) (have) a shower. Ana (d) (stay) in bed. I (e) (start) work at six in the morning and Ana (f) (start) at five in the evening. 7
We (g) (meet) at half past three in the afternoon when I (h) (finish) work. I (i) (go) back to our hotel room and Ana (j) (cook) a late lunch for us. 15. Questions about Mike. Complete these questions from an interview with Mike. a. What your wife? She works in the hotel restaurant. b. Where you? At the King s Hotel in Edinburgh. c. How many languages you? Four. d. you Japanese? No, I don t. e. your wife Spanish? Yes, she does. She speaks perfect Spanish. f. What time you? At six o clock in the morning. g. Why you working in the hotel? Because we meet people from all over the world. 16. Going on holiday. Mr and Mrs Marshall want a holiday. They are at the travel agent s. Read the conversation and number the lines in the correct order. Travel Agent Yes, of course. Where would you like to go? Children? How many children do you have? 1 Good afternoon. How can I help you? Spanish! Ah yes! That gives me a brilliant idea! I have the perfect summer holiday for you! Mr and Mrs Marshall 2 My wife and I would like to have a summer holiday. The girl is twelve and she loves sports. The boy is seventeen, but he doesn t like sports. He likes reading and he is very interested in learning Spanish. We have two, a girl and a boy. Well, we don t really know, you see. I like 8
How old are they? What are their hobbies? playing golf but my wife doesn t. She wants to lie in the sun, and our children 17. Short answers. Write short answers to the questions about the Marshalls. Use do, does, don t and doesn t. f. Do they want a winter holiday? No, they. g. Do Mr Marshall and his daughter like sports?. h. Do Mrs Marshall and her son like playing golf?. i. Does their son like reading?. 18. Writing. An email to a penfriend. Read Mike s email to his friend and study its organization. 19. Now, write a similar email to Christopher about you. 9