Fashion: Mind & Body
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Inglés
Learn
Choose the right sentence of each pair
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2. Where is Mary?
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5. What do you do?
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Present Tenses
► We use the present tenses to talk about the present time. But in a different way. Look at the chart and learn the differences between these two tenses.
| Present Simple | Present Continuous |
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* Use the present simple for regular events:
We usually have dinner at 8
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* Use the present continuous to describe what is happening at the moment:
We are watching TV at the moment
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* Use the present simple for permanent states:
She works in a bank
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* Use the present continuous for temporary states:
This year he's studying in Italy
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Test
Choose the right sentence of each pair
1.
She goes to the cinema every Saturday
She's going to the cinema every Saturday
2. Where is Mary?
She sleeps
She's sleeping
3.
She's having lunch at 12. every day
She has lunch at 12 every day
4.
We're staying with some friends this week
We stay with some friends this week
5. What do you do?
I'm watching TV
I'm a nurse
6.
Bicycles don't use petrol
Bicycles aren't using petrol
Writing
Write sentences using the present simple (Usually/sometimes/once a week...) or the present continuous (now/at the moment/this year ...)
1. Tom (sleep) now. Don't make any noise.
2. My sister often (play) the piano.
3. Every Monday she (drive) her children to tennis classes.
4. They (win) the match right now.
5. Ian usually (work) as a secretary at IBM.
6. This year James (write) a book about his adventures in Africa.
7. I (go) to an art class at the college this term.
1. Tom (sleep) now. Don't make any noise.
2. My sister often (play) the piano.
3. Every Monday she (drive) her children to tennis classes.
4. They (win) the match right now.
5. Ian usually (work) as a secretary at IBM.
6. This year James (write) a book about his adventures in Africa.
7. I (go) to an art class at the college this term.
Demonstrative adjectives
Learn the form and use of the demonstrative adjectives and pronouns.
| Singular | Plural |
| this | These |
| that | Those |
► We use this / these to refer to something or someone that is near, and that / those to refer to something or someone that is far
► This / That / These / Those can function as pronouns when they substitute a noun.
"These roses are red and those are pink"
► They can function as adjectives when they accompany a noun
"I like this sweater"
"Do you like those jeans?"