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present continuous: be + verb + ing i jyou/we/they he/she /it_ My brother is working in Germany. y . ‘ - A What are you doing? Vm working You | . we B I'm sending a text message to Sarah. We "reworking She ’sworking | « Remember the spelling rules for the -ing form. They I cook>cooking study >studying =| P'm not working You He live>living —run>running We aren't working She They I 2)VX) Are you working? Is he working? No, I'm not. ‘Yes, | am. ‘Yes, he is. No, he isn’t. NOT Fi Write sentences with the present continuous. b Complete the senter + Use the present continuous for things happenin; now, at this momer Idk Some verbs are not normally used in the 1 continuous, for example like, want, have (= possess), need. I need 10 talk to you now. 'm needing to-talk-to-vou-now, nces with the present simple or present continuous. It/ rain. }__ Itisn't raining. ‘The girl in the painting .is playing the guitar. (phy) 1 Hey! you / stand on my foot! 1 My dog's not dangerous. He a: (not bite) 2 they / play very well today [=] 2 Why you sunglasses? It__! (wear, rain) 3 what / you study at the moment [7] 3 You can turn off the radio. 1 toit (not listen) 4 we/ think of you 41 to goto the bank. ____ any money. _(need, not have) 5 she / wear make-up (2) 5 Be carefull The baby that pencil in her mouth! (put) 5 they / make / a big mistake [4 6A you usually at weekends? (cook, eat) 7 your brother / work in London now (7) B No, we normally —___ out. 3 she / talk to her father at the moment =] 7 A What you here? (do, meet) BI ___ Emma. Look, there she “defining relative clauses with who, which, where ‘A cook isa person who works in a restaurant, AA lock is a thing which tells the time. A post office isa place where you can buy stamps. A. You can use that instead of who or which. ‘She's the girl who | that works with my brother. It's thing which | that connects two computers.. * Use relative clauses to explain what a place, thing, or person is or docs. That's the woman who won the lottery lst year. This is the restaurant where we had dinner last week. + Use who for a person, which for a thing, and where for a place. It’s the person _who_ serves you in a café 1 They're people make you laugh, 2 It’sa machine cuts the grass. 3 san animal lives in the sea and has eight legs 4 Isa room people try on clothes. X 5 He's the person. 6 It’sakind of food — helps you with your luggage. keeps vampires away. 7 past simple regular and irregular i] = T ] infinitive past | You . | nay oe | work worked | He stayed in ahotel. | didn’t stay in a hotel. say stayed like liked (just add dif verb finishes in ) study studied (y>i after a consonant) stop stopped (if verb finishes in Yes I did. No, I didn’t. + Use the past simple to talk about finished actions in the past. » The past simple is the same for all persons. » Use the infinitive after Did...? and didn’t for negatives and questions. X12) | Did you Did you stay in a hotel? go on holiday? consonant-yowel-consonant, double the final consonant) ‘To make the past simple [7 of regular verbs add -ed, Remember the spelling rules, + Many common verbs are irregular in ) past simple, example go>went. See the Irregular verb list on p.15

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