We Don’t Talk Anymore - Charlie

Puth feat. Selena Gomez

Exercise 1: The song “We Don’t Talk Anymore” has a lot of phrasal verbs. Match these verbs
to their meaning:

1. look for A. make progress, overcome

2. move on B. leave, escape
3. get out C. search, expect
4. show up D. investigate, stare
5. look into E. appear, being visible.

Exercise 2: The following words were in the song. Can you put them in a different context?
Complete the sentences:

wonder − kind − shame − hope − wrong − right

A. I got it_______________, it was a misunderstanding.

B. The real power is being _______________ and polite .

C. _______________ woman is my favorite superhero.
D. Turn _______________ twice and you’ll get there.
E. What you did was so bad, _______________ on you!
F. Nowaday, it’s important to have _______________.

Exercise 3: This song uses Simple Present sentences more than once. In the Simple Present ,
you use do/does as an auxiliar in the affimative and don’t/doesn’t in the negative. Check some
rules about the Simple Present:

It’s usually used to talk about routines, habits or things that are generally true.

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 The structure of a sentence in the affirmative is: subject (I, you, we, they) + verb in
infinitive + complement OR subject (he, she, it) + verb in simple present + complement.
Example: I work everyday OR she works everyday.

The structure of a sentence in the negative is: subject (I, you, we, they) + don’t + verb in
infinitive + complement OR subject (he, she, it) + doesn’t + verb in infinitive +
complement. Example: I don’t like baseball OR he doesn’t like baseball.

The structure of a sentence in the interrogative is: do + subject (I, you, we, they) + verb
in infinitive + complement OR does + subject (he, she, it) + verb in infinitive +
complement. Example: Do you love meatballs? OR Does your pet love meatballs?

How to put the verbs in the simple present when you use he, she, it in the affirmative
sentences:

General rule: put -s in the end of the word. Examples: plays, eats and reads.

When the verb ends with o, s, h, x or z: put -es in the end of the word. Examples:
does, kisses, watches, fixes and buzzes.

When the verb ends with y and there’s a consonant before: take out the y and put -ies
in the end of the word. Examples: cries and tries.

Now, put the sentences below in the correct order:

A. My/goes/family/Paris/every/to/year

B. work/don’t/company/that/for/I
C. go/where/do/like/to/your children/?

D. do/do/dishes/the/they/every/night
E. Ana/does/school/go/to/that/?

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