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Grammar EXTRA!

Simple present and adverbs of frequency

1 Complete the chart with the correct form of play. 3 Circle the correct word.
I play 1 Do / Does you play basketball?

You 2 Yes, I do / does.

play
3 What time does she get / gets up in the morning?
He plays
basketball. 4 She usually get / gets up at seven o’clock.
She plays 5 He don’t / doesn’t like fish.
We play 6 They play / plays basketball every day.

They 7 How often do / does she go to the gym?

play
8 She go / goes every Saturday.

Now make the sentences negative.

4 Put the words in the correct order.
I don’t play basketball.
 you don´t play basketball 1 breakfast eggs eats she for often
 he doesn´t play basketball She  often eats eggs for breakfast
 she doesn´t play basketball 
 we don´t play basketball 2 go swimming do day you every ?
 they don´t play basketball Do you go swimming every day?

Now make questions. 3 get up the usually morning in six I o’clock at
Do I play basketball? I usually get up in the morning at six o´clock
 do you play basketball? 
 he plays basketball? 4 go the never Sunday I on to gym
 she plays basketball? I never go to the gym on sunday
 do we play basketball?

 they play basketball
5 nine o’clock always at do school start you ?
Do you always school start at nine o´clock?
2 Complete the two texts with these words.

don’t like doesn’t like eat eats 6 dancing sometimes on the go they weekend
get up gets up go goes like likes They sometimes go dancing on the weekend

I usually (1) gets up at seven o’clock. I (2) go
to the gym before breakfast. For breakfast I
5 Read the texts in exercise 2 and write a short text
(3) eat eggs. I (4) don´t like eggs, but I about you.
(5) like cheese.
 i get up at 11 every weekend, after getting up for
Ricardo sometimes (6) gets up at six o’clock in the
 breakfast. in the afternoons I do my homework and
finish playing with my friends
morning. He (7) goes swimming before breakfast.
eats

For breakfast, Ricardo always (8) eggs.

He (9) doesn´t likeeggs, but he (10) likes cheese.


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