UNIT 1 E LANGUAGE FOCUS

- these following adverbs can’t be used in negative form: never, seldom, hardly ever, rarely….. II..[r]

Give the correct form of verbs in brackets

1 I always (get)……… up at six.

2 My brother often (go)…………to school in the

afternoon.

3 My mother (not/watch)……… TV at

night but my father (do)……

4 What time you (do)…… your homework?

5 We (spend)……… our last summer holiday in

Nha Trang.

6 I’m very tired because I (stay)…… up late

last night.

get

goes

doesn’t watch does

Which tense? The present simple tense

The past simple tense

spent

stayed

Read the following sentence:

I see a sheep on a ship

 Sheep [ʃɪːp]

 Ship [ʃɪp]

I Pronunciation: / I / - / i: /

/ I / Hit Bit Little Kick Click interest

/ i: / Heat Beat Meat Repeat Read eaten

• i, e, -ate, -age [i]

• i, e, ea, ee, ei [i:]

Practise these sentences:

1 Is he coming to the cinema?

2 We’ll miss the beginning of the film

3 Is it an interesting film, Jim?

4 The bean and the meat were quite cheap

5 He’s going to leave here for the Green Mountains

6 Would you like to have meat, peas and cheese?

/ I // i: / / I / / I /

/ I / / I /

/ I /

/ i: /

/ I / / I / / I /

/ I /

/ i: /

/ i: /

/ I /

/ i: / / i: /

/ i: / / i: /

/ i: / / i: / / i: / / I /

1 The present simple tense

• Usage: the present simple is used to describe:

- a repeated action

- a permanent situation

- general truths

* Common signs : every + day, month, year….; always, often, usually……

II GRAMMAR

With normal verb:

+) S + V1/Vs/es + … +) S + do/does + not + V(inf)…

?) Do/does+ S+ V(inf) …

 With “to be”:

+) S + is/am/are + …

-) S + is/am/are + not + …

?) Is/am/are + S+ …

• Form:

2 Adverbs of frequency

Always usually often sometimes occasionally normally as a rule seldom hardly ever never…

• Usage: -show how often something happens

• Position:

- in front of normal verb

- between an auxiliary verb and the main verb.

- after the verb “to be”.

- at the beginning of a sentence (as a rule, usually, sometimes)

- at the end of a sentence (usually, sometimes, once a month,

every day)

• note :

- we always put the adverb “as a rule” at the beginning of a

sentence

- these following adverbs can’t be used in negative form: never,

seldom, hardly ever, rarely…

II GRAMMAR

3 The past simple tense

• Form:

+) S +{ were/was +……

{V(2/ed)+…….

-) S + {were/was + not+…

{Did +not+ V(inf)……

?) { were/ was + S+….

{Did + S + V(inf)+… ?

• Use: - describe a complete action or situation in the past.

• Common signs: yesterday, the day before

yesterday, last + (week, month, year,

Christmas… ), time + ago (2 days ago) …

II GRAMMAR

Exercise 1:

Fishing (1) _ my favourite sport I often (2) _ for

hours without catching anything But this does not (3) _ me Some fishermen (4) _ unlucky Instead of

catching fish, they (5) _ old boots and rubbish I (6) _ even less lucky I never (7) _ anything – not even old boots After having spent whole morning on the river, I always (8) _ home with an empty bag “ You must (9) fishing!”, my friends (10) _

“It’s a waste of time” But they don’t (11) that I (12) _ not really interested in fishing I’m only

interested in sitting in a boat, doing nothing at all

III PRACTICE

be play take run fish go say catch give up like realise

is

go

realise am

fish worry

At home

III PRACTICE

Exercise 2:

1.was done

2.Cooked

3.were

4.Smelt

5.Told

6.Sang

7.Began

8.Felt

9.Put out

III PRACTICE

Exercise 3:

10.crep 11.Slept 12.Woke 13.Was 14.Leapt 15.Hurried 16.Found 17.Wound 18.flowed

1.Do exercise 2 in the textbook -page 21.

2.Prepare next lesson.

Good bye class !!!