a Grammar fox Unit 1 Word order in question forms Yes / No questions In yes/no questions the verb goes before the subject: ‘They are frm Spain Are they from Spain? In present simple or past simple questions, the auxiliary verb do / did goes before the subject. ‘She speats English, — Does she speak Fnglcb? ‘She learnt French. —— Did she learn French? What and How questions Use hw and what with nouns and adjectives or adverbs to start questions. What pets da you bave? Hoe expensive wast? What kind of dog ist? Hex often do yo feed it? Wh- questions ‘Question words (Wat? Where? Whe? When? Why? How?) go at the start of question, Where do you live? When were you born? What is your favourite sport? Use like in questions to ask about appearance or personality and, characteristics, Wat does she lok Hike? — Sbe' tll and wears gles. Whats that new restaurant like? ~ Noiry but the fad ir god. Present simple, frequency ‘Affirmative | Negative “| Question Short answers Yes | Shoreanswers No Wou/ Wer They work. | UYou/We/They don't | Do /you/we/they | Yes, 1/you/we/theydo.| No,T/you/we/they | work | work? don. | He/She/Teworks. | He/She/Iedoes'e | Doeshe/she/itwork? | Yes,he/she/icdoes. | No, he/she /iedoesn'e work. | os ia | ‘Use the present simple totale about: © abiss and routines. © things that are always trae Hie gets up at seweno'ock, The sum rises inthe eas. They don’t go 1 bed late. Water boils at 100°C. We use frequency adverbs and expressions of frequency with the present simple, Frequency adverbs (alone, usually, often, metines, bar eve never) go between the subject and the ver, except withthe verb 0B We akoays bave hunch at tp Hein alos ae for clas Expressions of frequency (every diy, noice a week, on Mond, et) usually go atthe end of the sentence. They go atthe beginning of the sentence when we want to emphasise when or how often. We go chopping on Saturdays. (On Saturdays, we go shopping. Present continuous ‘Affirmative Negative Question am (om) working,| Lam (im) not working.) Am I working? You/We/They are]| You/We/They are not | Are you/we/ (Cre) working. | (aren't) working. | they working? He/She/Teis (3) | He/She/Ieis not | Ishe/she/i working. Gsn') working. working? Unit 1 Grammar focus ‘Use the present continuous to talk about: + things happening now or about now. Weare watching TV. I'm learning English + cemporary situations. Hes living in London atthe mement. ‘The present continuous is often used with time expressions such 2s now, chest days, atthe moment and this week / month / year. Some verbs (stative verbs) aren't used in the present continuous: _agre, appear believe, forget, bate, bear, kn, like, ove, mean, need coun, prefer, real, remember, se, sem, wantUnit 1 Exercises Word order in question forms (0 order, Then correct the mistakes, Decide if these questions the correct (V)or incorrect 2. Use the words to write the questions swbere born? Where were you born? ‘They are from Japan? ' Where do your parents live? 2 Z Did learn you a language at school? 3 Who is your favourite actor? 4 Do like you chocolate? s How many students there are in the cl 6 childr 7 play any sports ae 8 favourize writers? 9 like music? —— What and How questions Write the questions. 2 Hoss tal i be? He nearly wo metees tall 4 How >The school is ten kilometres from here What My cat 5 What Thave a Visa and an American Express. How > Tm thier. 6 How? _Iedoesnt rain here very ofter What 2 My teacher’ tall with shor, dark hair. 7 What She’ nice, really friendly Present simple, frequency Put the words in the correct ore to make sen Present continuous or present continas bis parents / on Sundays / my boyfriend / visits 4 My boyfriend visits bis parent: on Sundays 5 all evening / spends /he / on the internet / often check / every day / their email / they ‘ TV /in the daytime / watch / hardly ever / we 7 oes / once a week /she /to the cinema meet /at weekends / sometimes /T/ colleagues from work usually / my wife / before me / gets up for a meal / go out / we / every Saturday night ‘Where (1) ___ (ou work) at the moment Ina hotel in lay. My boyfriend (2) ac the moment too. 8) (jou /Tie) ic there? Tes great.) (prefer he lfeseyle in Taly In London everybody (5) (ork) long hours. People — (rot enjoy) life as much (gow / speak) Italian? Not very well, but I (8) 10) ao e quite quickly, We (Gt plan) to go back to England for awhile Grammar focus Unit 1Unit 2 UE EEEENEEEI Countable / uncountable nouns, some, any Countable and uncountable nouns Countable nouns can be singular or plural. Most plural forms end Put it on your plate. Where are the plates? Some plural countable nouns are iregular; bid ~ children ‘Uncountable nouns don’t have a plural form, [Do yeu take mile and sugar in tea? Language note: Some words can be countable or uncountable. 11k coffee. (= the cin) Can | have a corto “These are some common uncountable nouns: acommedaton, sive, brea fonts, nfirmaton nos tfc weer some and any ‘Use some aod any with plural nouns or with uncountable nouns Wie usally use nme in afimatve sentences and ny in nega sentences and question, Da you bave any plates? We ned by sme mil Use a /an with singular nouns, don't have a plate. You need an eg for that recipe, a lot of, a little, a few, (not) enough, much, many Use quantifiers before a noun to show the quantity or amount of something. + a litle and much are used with uncountable nouns ait coffe, 0 much sugar * afew and mony are used with plural countable nouns: 1 fez apples, 09 many bananas *+ alr ofand (not) enough are used with uncountable nouns and plural nouns: alot of pasta, not enough vegetables The infinitive with to Use the infinitive with after some verbs agree armange, decide forge, bop, lear, manage, mean, ned, offer, pref promise, rf, remember, try, want, would ike You need to eat soay, Remember to add sugar Infinitive of purpose ‘We use the infinitive wit when we tall about the purpose of something or why we do something. Tea of geal to get ongortant vitamins. (becuse Twat to ged) You use a corksres to open wine. (= sa that you can open) it 2 Grammar focus Language note: much / mary are usually used in negative sentences and questions cr with foo. A lot of lots ofs usualy used instead of much / many in aifirmative sentences, There's a lat of salt in this ish We use. lot to anewer the question How much / many ..? Language note: we don't use fo after modal verbs such as can ‘can't and most. (See Grammar focus § page 740 for more on sodas) ‘ean drink one glass of wine, but ro more. Use th infiritive with fo ator adjectives I's heathy to eat salad. t's good to try citterent foods, Language note: We can use in order to instead of 0 in these sentences. Forlsn't used in these sentences. ‘eat iots of vegetables in order to get important vitamins. Not Featiots oF vegetables forte gatimpertant vitamins:Unit 2 Exercises Countable / uncountable nouns, some, any (Complete the sentences with a / an, some oF any. 1 Tim going shopping. Do we need cess? 2 CanThave — large cola and two coffees please? 3 Tdlike information about restaurants in the + There’ Dread left, bur there isnt 5 Tmmaking —_____ ig cake for my son's birthday 6 Inced__—___ advice about vegetarian food. 7 new furniture for the dining room, ‘onion for this dish a lot of, a little, a few, (not) enough, much, many 1. Underline the correct quantifier in exch sentence. 2. Choose one of the dialogues in Exercise 1. Think about what is 1 Ax Tim oftid dare vio wae (imap cal ha happening and who is speaking. Write the next two lines, Sorry, forgot you only like a few / litle in coffee. 2x How much / many biscuits would you like? BAe /A btof 3A; We have Jts of / much space, Why don't you come and visit? 3 Thanks but I din’ have enough /bave to litle days off 4A: My wallet was here alte / «few minutes ago! 1 I'm afraid there are Jat of / many pickpockets here six The infinitive with to get about a Japanese drink. Complete the text Sake is rice wine. The Chinese first learnt —t0 make cook rice in water It is imporsant (2) kind of rie. You can (3) —___ serve sake warm ot people prefer (4) dink warm sake in winter and cold sake in summer. You are meant (5) drink sake with friends. Tradition says you mustn't (6) you drink sake in Japan, remembé other people. pour sake for yourself So if O pour it only for Infinitive of purpose Make six entencs. went to the baker’ He looked round the café meet our friends celebrate her birthday. show she wasn’t angry. buy some bread find a good table. pick some tomacoes, 2 3. She smiled at me 44 He went into the garden 5) Wecycled inta town 6 ‘They organised a party Grommar focus Unit2_ |