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