Origin

How to talk about ORIGIN

Are you from Italy?
No, I’m not from Italy,
I come from Spain.
We use the verb “BE” to describe “ORIGIN”.
I’m from Uruguay

Is Noemi From Mexico? Yes, she’s from Mexico

V + SUB + ORIGIN SUB+V+ORIGIN

Is Ling from Shanghai? No, she isn’t from Shanghai

SUB+V+NOT+ORIGIN

Where is she from? She’s from Hong Kong.

QW+V+SUB+ORIGIN
Practice 1: Read the paragraph, circle the correct
word of phrase.
My name is Mercedes. I have a very international family. My parents are
both America / American but my mother is originally from Spain /
Spanish and my grandfather is from England / English. I have two
nationalities: American and Spain / Spanish. We speak Spanish. We
speak Spanish at home, but at school we speak England / English. My
boyfriend is Mexico / Mexican but he lives here in California /
Californian. I’m happy that I have a multi-cultural family.
Vocabulary Review
1. Accent a) Origin
2. Lovely b) Alcoholic beverage
3. To come from c) two
4. Wine d) beautiful
5. to be hungry e) Saturday and Sunday
6. Weekend f) Variation in speech
7. Both g) to want to eat
8. Miserable h) extremely unhappy
General Information and
Habits in Negative
Tom doesn’t play tennis on weekends.
We don’t speak French in class
Key words and expressions
● To go hiking
● To go out
● Winter
● Spring
● Summer
● Fall
● High School
● Neighbors
We use Simple Present to talk about general
information and Habits
Sally doesn’t like to watch TV at night.

In the negative we use the auxiliary doesn’t (does not) + verb in

simple form for he, she and it.
He doesn’t like to ski he likes to watch TV.

She doesn’t like to hike she likes to go out with friends

It doesn’t snow in spring it snows in winter

SUB+AUX+NOT+VSF SUB + VERB PRESENT

Read and complete with the correct form of the verb
in parentheses.
Jesse is 22 years old and he is a computer programmer.
He______(come) from Dallas, Texas, but he______ (live, neg) there. He
lives and works in Austin. He_____(take) the bus to the office in the
morning. He works on his computer at home on Wednesdays, so
he______ (go, neg) to the office that day. On the weekends, he______
(like) to go hiking in the mountains. In the summer it______(be) really hot
in Texas, and he______ (go, neg) hiking. In summer, Jesse and his
friends go swimming on the weekends.
We use Simple Present to talk about general
information and Habits
We don’t like to watch TV at night.

In the negative we use the auxiliary don’t (do not) + verb in

simple form for I, we, you and they.
I
You
we don’t live in China
They

SUB+AUX+NOT+VSF
Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb.
I ______ (want, neg.) to dancing

We _____ (go, opportunity) swimming or sailing.

I ______ (like, neg) to go swimming.

The Dodgers are on TV right now and they _____ (play) an important game.

We always _____ (watch) TV, and I _____ (like, neg.) baseball.

You ______ (stay, opportunity) home and watch TV.

We can go swimming and then later we ______ (go, opportunity) dancing.

Find the mistake
1. Burt and Eva are vegetarians; they doesn’t eat meat.
2. Ling isn’t Chinese. She come from Taiwan.
3. Fran is in the kitchen. She is cook her favorite dish: ravioli with
spinach.
4. It snows in the winter. We can do skiing.
5. Gloria don’t have a car, she uses public transport.
6. Waldo can speaks English very well.
7. Jimmy likes to playing basketball.