Business 3: Present Simple

1. Work with a partner. Ask and answer the following questions.

• How are you ?
• How do you spell your first and last name?
• What do you do?
• Where do you come from?

2. Read the text below and answer the following questions.

This is Louise. Louise is 38 years old and she is a

police officer. She comes from England and she
lives in Leeds.
She has a dog. Her dog’s name is Bobo. Bobo is 6
years old.

1. How old is Louise? Louise is 38 years old.

2. What does she do? She is a police officer.
3. Where does she come from? She comes from England.
4. What is her dog’s name? Her dog’s name is Bobo.
5. How old is Bobo? Bobo is 6 years old.

When we are talking about one thing we often use the indefinite article ‘a’ or ‘an’.
When the noun starts with a consonant (b,c,d,f,g, etc) sound we use ‘a’ for
example: a dog, a chair, a house etc. When the noun starts with a vowel (a,e,i,o,u)
sound we use ‘an’ for example: an apple, an orange, an umbrella etc.

3. Fill in the gaps below with the correct article ‘a’ or ‘an’.
1. ___a__ door 2. _an____ office
3. ___a_ desk 4. _a____ table
5. ___a_ key 6. _an____ example
7. ___an__ assistant 8. _a____ meeting
9. ___an__ international company 10. _a____ man
11. ___an__ airplane 12. _an____ idea
13. ___a__ computer 14. _an____ email
15. ___a__ business card 16. _an____ advert

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 Grammar: Present Simple

We use Present Simple:

• To talk about facts and permanent situations.
For example: Jane is a teacher. She comes from England. She speaks Chinese.
• To talk about routines and hobbies.
For example: Jane wakes up at 7am every morning. She eats eggs and toast for
breakfast.

Note: In Present Simple we must always remember to add an -S to the verb when
speaking in third person singular (he/she/it).

4. Complete the verb conjugations below.

Verb: Walk Verb: Drink Verb: Take
I walk I drink I take
You walk You drink You take
He walks He drinks He takes
She walks She drinks She takes
It walks It drinks It takes

We walk We drink We take

You walk You drink You take
They walk They drink They take

Most verbs are easy to conjugate in the Present Simple but we have a few
irregulars for example: be, have, go and do. The verbs are always only irregular in
the third person form (he/she/it).

5. Complete the verb conjugations below of some important irregular verbs.

Verb: Be Verb: Have Verb: Go Verb: Do
I am I have I go I do
You are You have You go You do
He is He has He goes He does
She is She has She goes She does
It is It has It goes It does

We are We have We go We do
You are You have You go You do
They are They have They go They do

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6. Read about Jay’s daily routine and fill in the gaps with the correct verb.
eats likes finishes goes are is
comes lives works meets takes is
Jay comes from England. He lives in an apartment in London.
He works for a company called InkSplash. Jay is a graphic
designer at InkSplash.
He likes working at InkSplash very much. The office is very
modern and his colleagues are very nice.
Jay takes the bus to work at 8am every morning. He always
eats an apple on the bus.
He usually finishes work at 5pm. After work, he goes to the
gym or meets some friends

7. Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verb in brackets.
My name is (be) Natalia. I come (come) from the USA but I
live (live) in London with my boyfriend Jay. Jay is (be) English
and he works (work) as a graphic designer for a company
called InkSplash. InkSplash does (do) a lot of work in design.
I am (be) a teacher at a local primary school. I wake up (wake
up) at 6am every morning and I go (go) to work by bike at
7am. The children start (start) school at 8am. I love (love) my
job.
I have (have) lunch with my colleagues every day at 12:30pm.
Alice usually has (have) something very good for lunch
because her husband is (be) a chef and he makes (make) her
lunch for work!

8. Work with a new partner and take it in turns asking and answering the following
questions. Take notes of your partners answers.
• Where do you come from?
• What do you do?
• Where do you live?
• What time do you wake up in the morning? (6am, 7am, 8am etc.)
• How do you go to work? (by walk, by bus, by metro, by train, by car)
• What time do you usually finish work? (4pm, 5pm, 6pm etc.)
9. Share the information about your partner from exercise 8 with the class.

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10. Match the companies with their country of origin below.

Spain Germany Ireland The USA

France China England Italy

11. Work with your class and make sentences about the companies below.
For example:
McDonald’s is an American company. It sell burgers.
Zara is a Spanish company. It sells clothes.
Coco Chanel is a French company. It sells perfume and clothes.
Rolls Royce is an English company. It sells cars.
Haribo is a German company. It sells sweets.
Aperol is an Italian company. It sells drinks/alcohol.
Guiness is an Irish company. It sells drinks/alcohol.
Huawei is a Chinese company. It sells computers, mobiles etc.

1. Mc Donald’s The USA 2. Zara Spain

3. Coco Chanel France 4. Rolls Royce England

5. Haribo Germany 6. Aperol Italy

7. Guinness Ireland 8. Huawei China

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