LANGUAGE FOCUS Present simple: affirmative and negative
I can talk about habits and facts.
Aims
• Learn the affirmative and negative forms of the present simple.
• Use the present simple to describe things that happen regularly.
Warm-up (3 minutes)
• Write these gapped sentences on the board:
A monk ____ with almost no possessions. The head teacher ____ ask the teacher how many classes we go to.
• Refer students back to the texts on page 10 to complete the sentences: A monk lives with almost no possessions. The head teacher doesn’t ask the teacher how many classes we go to.
• Elicit that the verbs are in the present simple form.
• Elicit or explain that we use the present simple to talk about things that happen regularly or are always true.
Exercise 1
• Point out that the wordpool contains different elements which are needed in the sentences.
answers.
1 lives 3 walk 5 don’t 2 doesn’t 4 give 6 don’t
LANGUAGE NOTE In the he/she/it form of the present simple affirmative, we add -s to the verb:
He needs a car. NOT He need a car.
In the negative form, the he/she/it form uses doesn’t:
He doesn’t need a car. NOT He don’t need a car.
In the negative, we do not add -s to make the he/she/it form: He doesn’t need a car. NOT He doesn’t needs a car.
Exercise 2
• Ask students to complete the rules by using the sentences in exercise 1 for reference.
answers.
1 facts, routines 2 don’t 3 doesn’t
Exercise 3
• Focus on the example, and do another example with the class if necessary.
• Remind students to use the correct verb form, affirmative or negative, to make the sentence true for them.
• in a weaker class, ask students to comp are answers. before checking with the class. In a stronger class, check answers, then extend the activity by asking students to call out other verbs and put them into affirmative and negative present simple sentences.
answers.
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