Te a pre) aefi : i Akseme ee eee eee) Charles: What do you normally do on weekends? Where do you go? With whom do you do this activity? You: Charles: What are you doing next weekend? Where are you going? With whom are you doing this activity? You: Charles: And what about your best friend, what Is he/she doing now? What does he/she usually do on weekends? What is he/she doing next weekend? You: our ee aa ae See gta tea Leo Read the sentences below about Jason. What's the difference among them? Pay attention to the highlighted words: | normaly stay ot home on weekends, but | am doing something different this weekend. Nicole and | ore travelling to the mountains. The difference is that the first clause expresses 2 routine, hal weekend, To express this situation the sentence is in Simple Present. The second and the third clauses express a specific mome’ t: Jason stays at home on weekends, every he Is doing something different this weekend only. Itis not @ routine for him. To express this situation the sentence is in Present Continuous. It is very important to know the difference between Simple Present and Present Continuous. Pay attention: Routine ‘Jason exercises every day. /s wake up at 7:30 a.m. Habits Nicole sometimes works overtime. Charles and his wife normally clean the house on weekends, Facts Charles’ wife works very much. ‘Action in progress now or at a specific moment Charles’ wife is not working this weeh Nicole is working right now, Programmed future Nicole and Jason are travelling to the ‘mountains this weekend, Jason is drinking some beer after work today,U travel on weekends, H am ‘travelling this weekend. eee reer FP subject auillary verb Important: In Simple Present itis necessary to conjugate the verb when the subject is the 3° person singular: HE, SHE or IT, She travels on the weekends, Subject * verdes complement 1 dont study onweekends, | ! amnot studying this weekend. uo + not veh canptene Stick SomitRet verb complement | SIE audi trata lament She doesnt study on weekends. Subject eudbary+ not __ver> Important: The auxiliary verb in Simple Present depends on the subject of the ‘Sentence: |, you, we, they: DO | He, she, it: DOES : Do you study onweekends? | Are you _ studying this weekend? ‘lary subjee complement | Aullary subject verb+ complement ae a. oes iN Does she stikdy- on weekends? Autry subject = ver = complement __ Every. ay/night/summer, etc) F Now/Right now On . the weekend/Sundays, ete) At the moment Verbs that don't ex Cet ea + verbs describing thoughts and opinions: believe, remember, understand, forget, etc. + verbs describing emotions: want, need, lke, love, hate, etc. + verbs describing the senses: hear, taste, feel, smell, etcnormally JM The definite article ‘the’ Is normally} eee ener) In context: The girls lke to play eee foe fe which is always /81:/ no matter what sound should Ps a+ The baby to bed now. e+ Charles two children, ‘goes is going has is having b+1___tunwith my friends on weekends. f+ Jason to work every day. have ‘am having crives is driving c to school tonight. get tonight. We cannot go home on foot. 90 ‘am going rains is raining d+ Nicol lunch with Ana today. hs The boy ice-cream right now. has is having + wants is wanting Bite ee They (¢o traveb to the mountains in the winter. This winter, they eee (not -t0 travel) to the mountains, they _________ (to go) to Cancun, b+ Tory (not - to watch) TV every night. He {to prefer) to read books. ce1____tto meet) my friends tonight. d= Charles and his family (not - to stay) home this weekend. Charles______tofish) andthekids___—__ to surf) at the beach,e+ Nicole. (to need) to talk to Jason now. fe (to live) in New York? g*___Teny__(to stuay) at the moment? he Charles (not - to live) in Manhattan, Where —____tto tive? Ee ee ener ae ee a ee Continuous. .g2: What time is Charles waking up tomorrow? Charles is waking up at 6 o'clack tomorrow. Why does Chartes wake up early? Charles wakes up early because he likes to have breakfast slowly and calmly. 2 ae. a John is studying English now 1 Sally studies very much, {1 Sally studys very much a a+ With [ Iwhat{ Thom { J who are you studying now? | am studying with Ana now. b+{ Whom JWhof ] Whose book ist? It is Gabi’s book. +f JWhat{ Which [ 1 Why color do you prefer: blue or red? Between blue and red, | prefer red. eee iam [Li's midnight. {11's midday. b+ 9:30 p.m. [1 kt’s half past nine in the evening, {It's nine half in the evening. + 4:03 pm, £1 it's four three in the afternoon. {1 it's four oh three in the afternoon.{+ The students's dog is sleeping right now. b+ The name's of the book is Hamlet, c+ The key's car is red. d+ The Nicole's hometown is London. 5 + Choose the correct alternative using Possessive Adjectives or Possessive Pronouns. acThisis, its his b+ This laptop is c+ Those are bone. hers. theirs bicycles. 6 « How many... are there? Make questions and answer, writing down the number and the nouns corresponding to the figures ond pictures. Eg. How many leaves are there? ‘Answer: There are one/a hundred (and) twenty-nine leaves.