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Present Simple: negative talk about your free time

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Listening

Grammar I Present Simple: negative

1    Look at the photo and answer the questions.

1    When does this happen in your town/city?

2    What do you do in traffic jams?

2    a 03 Complete the quotes below. Compare your answers with a partner, then listen and check.

Traffic jams are OK. I think about work

and plan my day. I (1)_my diary. My

dauahter doesn’t like traffic iams - she calls her friends, but I don’t make phone calls in the car. It’s dangerous.’ (Melanie, 39)

‘Weil, in the mornings I shave and listen to

the radio. I (2)_the news. I like musie,

but unfortunately my car doesn’t have a CD player.’ (Nathan, 28)

‘I don’t do a lot, really. I (3)_traffic

jams - they’re so boring! I think about things or (4)_the people in the other cars.

Sometimes I sing.’ (Simon, 35)

‘We (5)_Computer games or (6)_

friends on our mobiles. Or we just talk. We don’t like the radio.’ (Lauren, 22 and Emily, 21) to Mark the sentences true (T) or false (F). Melanie makes phone calls in a traffic jam. F

1    Melanie’s daughter likes traffic jams.

2    Nathan listens to CDs.

3    Simon sings in his car.

4    Lauren and Emily work on their computers.

5    Lauren and Emily think mobile phones in cars are dangerous.

3 a Find the negative of the sentences below in the texts. Underline them.

1    My daughter likes traffic jams.

2    I make phone calls in the car.

3    My car has a CD player.

4    We like the radio.

to Complete the Active grammar box with don’ t or doesn’t.

Active grammar
m / ^:
He/She/lt ;	work.
We/You/Thev !

see Reference page 33

4 a Correct the false sentences in Ex. 2b. Use the negative verb form.

Melanie doesn’t make phone calls in a traffic jam.

b What about you? Tick (/) the true sentences. Correct the false sentences.

I like traffic jams. I don’ t like traffic jams.

1    I listen to the news on the radio.

2    I write my diary every day.

3    I play football at the weekend.

4    I make phone calls in the car.

5    I sleep for ten hours every night.

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