rr [18] 5 | do/work/like etc. (present simple) ‘They're looking at their books. He's eating an ic They read a lot. He likes ice-c cream. They read / he likes / I work ei. = the present simple: I/we/you/they read like work live watch do have | he/she/it reads-_—‘dikes._- works lives. watches does has Remember: he works / she lives / it rains etc © I work in a shop. My brother works ina bank. (ut ‘My brother work’) © Linda lives in London. Her parents live in Scotland. @ [trains alot in winter Ihave — he/she/ichas: @ John has a shower every day. Spelling (=. Appendix 5): es after-s/-sh/-ch: pass > passes. finish finishes. _wateh —> watches -y— es: study studies uy > tries alo: do—>does go > goes ‘We use the present simple for things that are true in general, or for things that happen sometimes or all the time: © [like big cities, © The shops open at 9 o'clock and close at 5.30. © Tim works very hard. He starts at 7.30 and finishes at 8 o'clock in the evening, ‘The Earth goes round the Su @ We do a lot of different things in our free time. © It costs. lot of money to stay at luxury hotels. always/never/aften/sometitnes/usually + present simple ‘© Sue always arrives at work eatly. (not ‘Sue arrives always’) © Tusually go to work by car but sometimes I walk. (aot T go usually’) © Julia never eats breakfast. © Tom lives near us. We often see him. T don’t... {rogative) = Do you ...? (questions) =» [IR] Tam doing and I do = (TE always/usually/often etc. (woudl ordes) => [EE]51 53 5.5 uwiT EXERCISES 5 Write these verbs +-8 or -es. 1 (read) she reads, 3 (fy) it 5 (have) she 2 (think) he 4 (dance) he 6 (finish) it s Complete the sentences about the people in the pictures. Use these verts: eat golive play play _— sleep == 1 He plays. the piano. 4 = tennis, 2 They inaverybighouse, 5 to the cinema a lot 3 alotoffiuit. 6 ight hours a night, Complete the sentences. Use these verbs: boil close cost cost like like meet open speak teach _—_ wash 1 Margaret . SPe@KS.. four languages. 2 In Britain the banks usually at 9.30 in the morning, 3 The City Museum at 5 o'clock in the evening. 4 Tina isa teacher. She mathennatics to young children 5. My job is very interesting. 1 alot of people 6 Peter his hair twice a week. 7 Food is expensive. It alot of money. 3. Shoes are expensive. They a lot of money, 9 Water at 100 degrees Celsius. 10 Julia and T are good friends. T her and she me. ‘Write sentences from these words. Put the verb in the right form (arrive or artives etc.) 1 (always / early / Sue / arrive) Sue always arrives early. 2 (basketball /1/ play / often) 1 3. (work / Margaret / hard / usually) : 4 (lenny / always / nice clothes / wear) x 5. (dinner / we / have / always / at 7.30) - 6 (television / Tim / watch / never) 7 (like / chocolate / children / usually) 8 Gulia / pasties / enjuy / always) : ‘Write sentences about yourself, Use always/never/often/sometimes/uswally. 1 (watch television) Lnever walsh television, / usually wadeh lelevision in the evening, (ete,) 2 (eead in bed) 1 i. a 3. (get up before 7 o’clock) 4 (go tw work/school by bus) 5 (drink coffe) pe