Grammar & vocabulary revision 1

Grammar
Present simple: p
 ositive and negative 4 Choose the correct word.
(I, you, we, they) I speak/speaks Portuguese and English.
1 Complete the sentences with the present simple 1 Jack finish/finishes school at 4 o’clock.
form of the verbs in brackets. 2 Grace don’t/doesn’t like hot weather.
My cousins live (live) in Madrid. 3 Gillian work/works in a hospital.
1 You (not like) swimming. 4 Ann doesn’t use/uses a computer at home.
2 I (study) English and German. 5 Tom lose/loses his keys every day.
3 John and I (not walk) to school 6 He don’t/doesn’t study French at school.
every day.
4 I (not do) my homework in the
5 Write two affirmative sentences and two
negative sentences about you and your best
library.
friend. Choose four of the verbs in the box.
5 The girls (go) to school by bus.
6 You (not watch) TV in the like live know play study watch
morning.
✓ I play tennis every Saturday.
2 Complete the sentences with the verbs in the 1 ✓ My best friend .
box. 2 ✓I .
not live not know not read not watch 3 ✗I .
play study work 4 ✗ My best friend .

My parents work in a bank. Present simple: questions and short answers

1 My favourite interest is sport. I 6 Complete the questions and short answers with
football and volleyball. the information from the table.
2 My dad and I soap operas.
3 Our house is near a bus station, but we I go to this school ✓
near a train station. 1 you listen to music ✓
4 You English and French at school. 2 Marco like cycling ✗
5 They like books, but they comics. 3 Anna play football ✓
6 I the answer to any of these
4 we read comics ✓
questions.
5 your sisters live here ✗

Present simple: p
 ositive and negative 6 your brother do his homework ✗
(he, she, it)
Do I go to this school?
3 Tick the verbs in the correct third person form. Yes , you do.
✓ carries
1 you ?
1 needs ,I .
2 finishs 2 Marco ?
3 watches , he .
4 likees 3 Anna ?
5 wears , she .
6 changes 4 we ?
7 gos , you .
8 works 5 your sisters ?
9 studys , they .
10 loses 6 your brother ?
11 uses , he .
12 hurries

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7 Read the text about three friends. Then complete Vocabulary
the interview with Asha. Write three questions
Countries, nationalities and languages
and short answers in the present simple.
9 Complete the nationalities using the suffixes in
the box.
Asha, Mark and Ela are
friends. Asha is into sport, -an -ese (x2) -ian (x2) -ish (x2)
especially football, but Mark Canad ian
and Ela never play sport. 1 Americ 4 Chin
Mark and Ela prefer shopping, 2 Brazil 5 Pol
3 Brit 6 Japan
but Asha hates it! Mark
and Ela are very good at 10
Complete the sentences with the correct word:
languages, and they speak a country, a language or a nationality.
English, Spanish and Italian. I’m Canadian. In my country we speak
English and French .
Asha only knows English.
1 He’s from Edinburgh in Scotland. He’s
and he speaks .
Interviewer Do you play football? 2 I live in Tokyo. My country is and
(you/football) I speak .
Asha Yes, I do. 3 They live in Brazil. They are and
1 Interviewer  ? they speak .
(Ela/handball) 4 I’m from Warsaw, but I live in Berlin. I speak
Asha and .
2 Interviewer  ? 5 We live in Madrid, in , and we
(Mark/shopping) speak . Our grandparents are from
Asha Paris, so they also speak .
3 Interviewer  ?
(Mark and Ela/three languages) Daily routines
Asha
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Complete the sentences with the words in the box.
4 Interviewer  ?
(you/Spanish) have bed dinner exercise
Asha homework get up walk

8 Write questions for the answers. Use a question I walk to school every day.
word if necessary. 1 We breakfast in a café on Saturdays.
Do you like broccoli? 2 I early at the weekend.
No, I don’t. I hate broccoli. 3 I don’t . I hate sport!
1 ? 4 I do my in my bedroom.
I get up at six o’clock. 5 My little brother goes to at seven
2 ? o’clock.
No, she doesn’t go shopping with Kate. She 6 My mum makes at eight o’clock.
goes with her sister.
3 ? 12
Complete the text with appropriate verbs.
They play tennis twice a week.
On schooldays I get up at 6 o’clock. I h‌ave
4 ? breakfast and then I 1g‌ to school.
Yes, I do. I love hip hop music. I 2s‌ school at 8.45 and 3f‌
5 ? school at 3.30. After school, I 4e‌ at the
She lives near the park. sports centre, then I 5w‌ home.
6 ? I don’t 6m‌ dinner. I 7d‌ my
He travels to school by bus. homework before I go to bed. Then I 8s‌ .

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