Unit 3
Simple present tense: negatives
We also use do / does to form the negative of the simple present tense: She does not want to stop playing basketball. helping verb main verb They do not practise on Saturdays .
9 Rewrite the sentences below as negative sentences. Example: Ben has extra classes on Monday è Ben does not have extra classes o n Monda . 1 Brianna goes to her friend’s house on Saturdays. 2 We stay at home on Sundays.
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I do not go to school on the weekend.
3 Dara plays basketball on the weekend. 4 My sister helps me with my homework.
5 My brother lets me play games on his computer. 6 My mom and dad watch television in the evening.
10 What do you do on the weekend? Write sentences as follows: • four sentences saying what you do. • four sentences saying what you do not do. Word work: synonyms
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Synonyms for you to learn answer reply attempt try cease stop clever smart courageous brave discover find finish complete generous kind give donate huge massive mistake error plan intend rare scarce strange weird tiny minute
A synonym is a word which has a similar meaning to another word: Roslyn was upset because she had lost the stumps. Upset is a synonym for worried . 1 Replace the underlined words with synonyms. Example: I found a mistake in my work. è an error 1 We plan to go to the match on Saturday. 2 You can go outside if the rain stops . 3 Jason tried to hit the ball hard.
4 The batsman found a hole in his gloves. 5 I was not able to finish my work yesterday. 6 Davina gave a photo to each student.
• Word work: Point out that words often have more than one synonym, e.g. clever, smart, intelligent . Ask students to think of as many synonyms as they can for words like big, small, happy . Encourage them to use synonyms to replace frequently used words.
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