Урок 8. Present Simple.

Lesson 8

Theme: Present Simple.

Beginning of the lesson.

 

Phonetic drill.

Look at the board, please. You see some sounds there, let’s repeat them:

[b], [r], [e], [ei]

Now look at the words with these sounds. Let’s read them.

In, a, bakery, bread, A, bank, bakes, baker.

Try to make up a toung-twister with these words.

A baker bakes bread in a bakery.

Procedure.

SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

1. SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

1.1. FORM

1.2. USES OF SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

1.3. USING FREQUENCY ADVERS: ALWAYS, USUALLY ETC..

1.4. USING FREQUENCY ADVERBS WITH BE

 

• FORM OF SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

1. a) Affirmative (Positive) Sentences

I YOU WE THEY	like hamburger.	have lunch at 12:00.	do exercise every morning.
HE SHE IT	likes hamburger.	has lunch at 12:00.	does exercise every morning.

 

1. b) Negative Sentences

I YOU WE THEY	don’t like hamburger.	don’t have lunch at 12:00.	don’t do exercise every morning.
HE SHE IT	doesn’t like hamburger.	doesn’t have lunch at 12:00.	doesn’t do exercise every morning.

 

1. c) Question Sentences

DO	I YOU WE THEY	like hamburger ?	have lunch at 12:00?	do exercise every morning?
DOES	HE SHE IT	like hamburger?	have lunch at 12:00?	do exercise every morning?

 

1.2 USE OF SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

1. a) General Truths. Ex: The earth is round.
2. b) Habitual Activities and Likes & Dislikes. Ex: I never drink coffee with milk.
3. c) Regularly Repeated Actions and Daily Routines. Ex: He goes to work by bus everyday.
4. d) Verbs Of The Senses And Mental Processes. Ex: This doesn’t taste very good, does it?

The present simple tense is used for many verbs of thinking, feeling and sensing. The most common words are:

like	love	prefer	know
understand	hate	need	want
believe	remember	see	hear
taste	smell	look

 

1.3 Using adverbs of frequency and adverbial phrases of time

1. a) Frequency adverbs

John

always _________100% usually (generally) very often often (frequently) sometimes occasionally seldom rarely hardly never___________0%

gets up early on Sunday mornings.

 

1. b) Adverbial phrases of frequency

On Wednesdays Every Wednesday Once a week Twice a month Every summer Etc.

she visits her aunt

On Wednesdays Every Wednesday. Once a week Twice a month Every summer Etc.

 

1.4 Using adverbs of frequency with BE

Ted

is

always _________100% usually ( generally) very often often (frequently) sometimes occasionally seldom rarely hardly never___________0%

late for work.

 

Task 1. Match the words:

1.to play	a) homework
2.to have	b) to school
3. to do	c) a computer
4.to go	d) dinner
5.to watch	e) books
6.to read	f) TV

T: Make your own sentences using adverb and these expressions.

P: I always read books.(etc.)

 

Task 2. Circle the correct answer :

1. I plays / play tennis every afternoon.
2. My parents live / lives in Ramat-Gan.
3. Tom listens / listen to the radio in the morning.
4. We eat / eats eggs for breakfast every morning.
5. My dog barks / bark at night.
6. Mrs. Gold sweep / sweeps the stairs once a week.
7. My brother never watches / watch television.
8. My family go / goes to the beach together in the summer.
9. I often eat / eats dinner at my grandmother’s house.
10. Sharon do / does her homework regularly.
11. They takes / take a bath daily.
12. You seldom listen / listens in class.
13. Dana and Liat goes / go to the swimming pool every afternoon.
14. I never hurt / hurts my cat.
15. He never finish / finishes his work on time.

 

Task 3. Listen and read. Match the pictures with the texts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Underline the Present Simple verbs in the texts.

Task 4.

Conclusion.

Hometask. Do the exercises on the sheets of paper (Appendix 10).