G present simple and 5 V verb phrases, irregular plurals Scar nt P consonant sounds, third person -s They live in a flat. He doesn't smoke A 1 VOCABULARY verb phrases a 21) What do you think? Complete with a number, b In pairs, make true e.g. 60% (sixty per cen). Listen and check. Cappuccino and chips rE] sentences about you. ~ a x cite ie ceemmaceaaadeeieaeae | read a newspaper every day. 10% 25% 45% 60% 70% 90% 1 don't smoke. WHAT % OF BRITISH PEOPLE. ¢ © p.143 Vocabulary Bank Verb phrases. read a newspaper every day 0 to the cinema every weekend smoke have a pet, watch TV every night live in a house with a garden 2 READING a Look at the photos. Which things are ‘typically British’? b Read the text. Check your answer to a. Typically British? “& ur foreigners in Britain talk about the people and the count 1 Nicolae from Romania works in a pub in Manchester | 3 Carlos isa tourist from Spain British people lk children but notin restaurants or pubs. ‘ People fail the newspaper everywhere — on the train, on the bus, In my pub we Bai a rule: ‘No children under 12. People atthe bus stop. And the newspapers are realy big! Cars SB in in Britain Gin alot of coffee ~ cappuccino and espresso Biitain when you Sif on the zebra crossing - i's incredible! are really popular. They dif a lot of beer toa ~ men and Cars dott for you in Madrid? , women. 4 Marilia from Brazil works as an ‘au pait in Cambridge 2 Alexandra from Russia isa student at Bristol University | ¢ | think my British family is typical. The woman desiticook — This is nota good county for smokers! Many coffee bars he just pis a pizza inthe microwave. But she watches cooking and restaurants are ‘no smoking. lve with three British programmes on TV every day! The man gooKSat the weekend — he students and they don'tsmoke. When | Want a cigarette ‘makes fantastic Indian cures. Their child has @ ternible diet. She eats 1 into the garden ? “fish fingers’ and chips and she goes to Burge King every week?¢ Find the four irregular plurals in the first text and complete the chart. How do you pronounce them? Singular Plural man imeni woman /'woman/ wimin] child /tfarld/ /tfildran/ person d Read the texts again. Underline three things which are the same in your country, and three things which are different. 3 GRAMMAR present simple [+] and [=] a Answer the questions. 1 Look at the |Righlight@d) verbs. Why do the verbs in paragraph 4 end in -s? 2 Write the he / she form of these verbs. cook g0 have make ‘watch | 3 Find three negative [I verbs. Which one is different? Why? b © p.i24 Grammar Bank 2A. Read the rules and do the exercises. 4 PRONUNCIATION consonant sounds, -s 5 WRITING & SPEAKING a Write your nationality in the title, Then eres-out the wrong word(s), ¢.g. They live in a hewse / flat. Complete the sentences with your ideas. Sve Sse They live ina house / flat. They have / don’t have a pet. a (22) Listen and repeat the words and sounds. a They have child / children ou s “ i Ww They go tol for their holiday. vase dog snake zebra leg witch The mother works / doesn’t work. b Practise saying the sentences. en coo fd Vitipltechi View She does / doesn't do housework fd! David doesn't drive. ‘She reads /s!_ Sally speaks Spanish. She watch on Tv. fal Linis in Brazil. She (Linda likes children. she ‘hu! William works as a waiter. ¢ (25) Listen and repeat the third person forms. The father works / doesn’t work. ; a ‘He cooks / doesn't cook. si Zz) She smokes alot. She lives in flat. He does / doesn’t do housework She drinks coffee. He has a cat. He reads He eats chips. She does exercise. He watches| on TV. hw He drives al He watches TV. | It finishes in a minute. b Read your sentences to a partner. Are they the same or different?Verb phrases MOTE ag a Match the verbs and pictures. [_] cook do drink ane inaflat in an office ren cat Fa A ° i have 8 like listen /‘lisan/ J live /hv/ economics: German aVw uy, 7 8 9 7 read 13 smoke & wpsk ee “bh stn a Hl watch a newspaper animals to the cinema wear /weal 10 W R work in b Cover the verbs. a ‘Test yourself or a partner. k Opis television to the radio the guitar a cigarette exercise tennis a sandwich for lunch coffee fast food tas S dinner housework / homework glasses2A a Change the sentences. We like animals. He likes animals. 1 I listen to the radio. She. 2 He lives ina flat. We 3 They have two children. He 4 She doesn’t drink coffee. They 5 I don’t smoke. My father 6 The shop closes at 5.00. The shops 7 1g0 to the pub. He 8 I do housework. She b Complete the sentences with a [#] or [=] verb. study have Hke drive speak play do eat read =] He likes animals. 1 My father The Times. 2 [=] Her house is big, but it a garden. 3H We French very well. 41 fast food. 5 [4] She aBMW. Be I computer games. 7 E] My father housework. 8H He economics at university.