B1 Lesson 3 Grammar simple present tense: statements
Lesson 3
Grammar simple present tense: statements
Use the simple present tense to write about:
Daily habits or routines: Max checks his email each morning
General truths: Children go to school.
Practice simple present
Uncle Charlie and Aunt Valerie
My uncle Charlie and Aunt Valerie (be) _________ successful entrepreneurs. Their restaurant (be) _____ then years old now, and they (enjoy) ________ great success. The restaurant (have) _______ 15 servers, two managers, and three chefs. Uncle Charlie (work)_________ very hard in his restaurant. Sometimes he (be)________ there seven days a week. Aunt Valerie always (go)________ tot the restaurant at night to make sure that the customers (be)_______ happy. I (love)________ my uncle Charlie and AUnt Valery, and I really appreciate all their hard work. There (be)________ no one better than them!
Some verbs may be used more than once.
Love play be seak come practice have
My classmates
My classmates come from all over the world. Jose ______ from Spain, so he _______ Spanish perfectly. Wonbin and Hyun _______ Korean, but they ________ from different cities. Yuri ______ from Ukraine. He ________English all the time and _______ a great accent. The Al brothers _______ from Dubai, and they _______ from Italy, and I _______ to sing in class. We _______ all very good friends, and I hope we can be friends forever.
There is and there are
Use there is and there are to show that something exists in a certain place. Use is with the singular subjects. Use are with plural subjects.
My Colorful Classroom
My classroom is a very colorful room. There are twenty desks in the room. Each desk has a dark brown seat and a shiny white top. On the left side of the room, there is a world map. This map shows all the different countries in the world, and each country is a different color. On the right side of the room, there are two posters. The first poster is green, it has a list of fifty common verbs. The second poster has the names and pictures of fruits and vegetables. It is white, but the writing is black. Finally, there are some pictures of famous leaguers above the whiteboard. These objects make my classroom colorful.
The paragraph has four mistakes with verbs and there is there are. Circle and correct them.
The English Alphabet
There have 20 letters in the English alphabet. There is five vowel letters and 21 consonant letters. The five vowels are a, e, i, o, and u. The letter w and y can be vowels when they come after other vows. There three letters with the a sound in their names. These letters are a, j, and k. Are nine letters with the e sound in their names. These are b, c, d, e, g, p, t, v, z. If you want to speak English well, you have to learn the 26 letters of the English alphabet.
Simple sentences
A simple sentence is a sentence that has only one subject -verb combination. Most simple sentences have one subject and one verb.
Japan imports oil from Saudi Arabia.
However, simple sentences can have a subject- verb combination that has more than one subject and or more than one verb.
Compounds sentences
A compound sentence is a sentence that has two simple sentences that are joined by a connecting word such as and. A compound sentence has two separate subject-verb combinations.
Activity
Identify sentence type.
Japan’s flag is red and white, and Canada’s flag is also red and white.
Japan and Canada have the same two colors in their flags.
The weather is bad, but the airplane will leave on time.
It is extremely hot in Abu Dhabi during the summer.
This map of Europe, Africa, and Asia is very old.
You can have cakes or ice cream for dessert.
The students take a test every Friday, but they do not like it!
January, March, May, July, August, October, and December have 31 days.
This recipe requires two cups of flour, two cups of sugar, and one cup of milk.
Ian and Carlos like surfing and skiing.
Some people prefer gold rings, but I prefer silver rings.
These silver and gold rings are different in weight, so they are different in price.
Connecting words in compound sentences
Activity
Use a comma and a connecting word: and, but, or, or so.
Mark lives in Turkey. Mark´s sister lives in Canada.
Carlos works on Saturday. He cannot come to the movies with us.
We go to school every day. We play tennis on weekends.
Luis and Kathy are related. They are ot brother and sister.
Hurricanes begin in the Atlantic Ocean. Typhoons begin in the Pacific.
I like to go to the beach in the summer. My brother prefers to hike in the mountains.
I don't feel well. I will call the doctor.
You can watch television. You can watch a movie.
Correct the paragraph
1 adjectives mistakes, 2 verb mistakes, 3 capitalization mistakes, 1 punctuation mistakes, 1 article mistake, 2 possessive adjective mistakes, 1 subject pronoun mistakes.
Not an Average Teenager
Steven Mills is not your typical athletic teenager. Steven is an gymnast, and he want to compete in the olympics. He wakes up at five o'clock in the morning every day because he has to practice before school. First, he has a breakfast healthy. Then she jogs to the National Gymnasium on Cypress street. He practices gymnastics for two hours. Then he gets ready for school. Steven goes to school from eight-thirty in the morning until three o'clock in the afternoon. After school, he returns to the Gymnasium for classes special with him coach. When practice finish at six o'clock, Steven returns home. He eats dinner, does his homework and talks with their family. Steven is in bed early to be ready to work hard again the next day.
Parts of speech
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