10 Use different personality adjectives to talk about a) yourself, b) a friend and c) someone on TV.
a) l'm friendly and sociable. but l'm sometimes ...
Grammar
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Prpspnt simple and present continuom?
Name the tenses.
1 She speaks three languages.
2 Pm visiting a new girl.
3 She doesn’t know many people yet.
4 Her parents are working here for a year.
5 We often hang out together.
Stative verbs
We don't normally use these verbs in the continuous: be. believe, forget, hate, hear, hope, know, Iike, tove, mean, need, prefer. remember, see. sound. think, understarid, want.
Complete the rules.
We use the_tense for permanent situations and routines.
We use the_tense for activities which are happening at
or around the time of speaking.
Practice
11 Complete Mia’s email with the correct form of the verbs.
How are you? I 'hope (hope) you re all OK. I ’_(write)
this in my bedroom. Here s a photo of me outside our new London fiat.
My new school is a bit strange, but 13_(Iike) it. About
a thousand kids4 (go) there. IJ _ (learn) some
names slowly. but I *_(not know) many people yet.
One girl is really cool. Her name is Polly and we usually
(sit) together in class She s quite sporty. She®_
(go) swimming three limes a week. I \ (not go) with her! They 10_ (play) a lot of soccer. sorry football'.
here. My brother Bart and his new friends 11_(play) it
right now. They ’2_(make) a lot of noise!
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Answer key
2 ’m writing 3 Iike 4 go 5 ’m learning 6 don’t know 7 sit 8 goes 9 don*t go f 0 play 11 are playing 12 ’re making 13 ’s calling 14 ’s cooking 15 wants
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-Sw*l A 6. f t ’ Cpttóftt \j
• What’s he/she Iike?
• What does he/she do every day?
• What doco hc/ohc uoually do at the weekend?
• What*s he/she doing at the moment? (Guess!)
My brother's intelligent. but he's really lazy. He goes to this school. At the weekend he plays a lot of Computer games. At the moment, hes having a Maths lesson.
b Now tell the class about the person your partner described. Then write about him/her.
Marta’s brother is ...
For morÄ™ practice, go to page 120. O O
nn not/isn't/aren't with the present continuous. Write a couple of examples on the board and get Ss to make them negative - / Iike English lessons -I don 't Iike Engiish lessons etc.
Remind Ss that because the email is informal in most cases they should use contracted forms. Ss complete the email. When they have finlshed. Ss can take turns to read parts of the text aloud.
12 a Ask Ss to choose a family member or friend and make notes in answer to the questions. They then work in pairs to exchange information.
b Ss use the information they learned to write a short text. When they finish, they can pass it to their partner to check for accuracy.
See page 120 in the SB.
(cook) dinner
Must go! Mum 13_(cali) me. She 14
and she ’5_(want) some help.
Write soon
Love,
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Answer key
present simple. present continuous
Ss read the sentences aloud and name the tenses. Check that Ss remember we use ‘s’ only for the third person affirmative in the present simple.
Answer key
1 present simple 2 present continuous 3 present simple 4 present continuous 5 present simple
Complete the rules
BACKGROUND NOTES
‘Love’: a closing phrase used in emails/ letters to clcse family/friends. Used morę by girls than bcys.
11 Establish that this email is from Mia to a friend, about her life in the UK. Check that Ss remember negative forms: we use
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