Unit 1
Questions in the simple present tense
We use the helping verb do / does with the root verb to form questions in the present tense : Does a hummingbird eat worms? helping verb main verb Do manatees live more than ten years?
8 Construct questions from the following statements.
Example: Manatees eat fish. è Do manatees eat fish? 1 Monkeys make a lot of noise. 2 Everyone likes monkeys. 3 The sun shines in the rainforest. 4 Teresa wants to be a vet. 5 Mr. and Mrs. Vine milk their goats every day. 6 Isaac keeps a pet snake in his bedroom. 7 All of the hens lay eggs. 8 He watches wildlife programmes on television. 9 Green monkeys live in Barbados. 10 Your cousin still has a pet rat. 9 Make your own KWL chart like the one below.
Green monkeys live in Barbados.
This KWL chart is focusing on the topic of snakes. • Write what you know about snakes in the ‘K’ column. • What do you want to know? Make up four questions, in the present tense, about snakes. Write them in the ‘W’ column.
Snakes
K
W
L
What I know
What I want to know What I have learnt
• Exercise 8 extension: After constructing questions beginning with ‘Do / Does’, you may ask students to also make questions beginning with ‘What, ‘Who’, ‘When’, ‘Where’ or ‘How many’. (Who likes monkeys?) Tell students to keep their KWL chart from Exercise 9; they will be using it for the writing task on pages 30–31.
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