Unit Starter
Lesson 2
Present simple and Present Continuous

REVISION:
Scramble

EDB
KOCO

bed
cook

GPHNPSIO shopping
KWOREHO homework
M
finish
FSINIH
school
LHSOCO

Exercise 1:
Study sentences 1-5 from the interviews on page 6.
Then answer questions a-d.

Which sentence refers to a scheduled action?
3. I start school at nine.

Which sentences refer to actions happening now?
What are you doing in town this morning?
2. I'm looking for a present for my mum.

Which sentence refers to a repeated action?

5. Do you always go shopping on Saturday
mornings?
ich sentence contains a verb that we can't usually use in
nt continuous?
4. I have some cereal or toast. The verb is “HAVE”.
BE, LIKE , LOVE, ENJOY, WANT, HATE, DISLIKE,

Adv

SIMPLE PRESENT
Hiện tại đơn
Often, always, usually,
sometimes, never, every

( V ) I / We / You / They + V

He / She / Lan + Vs/es
(s,sh,x,ch,o)

( V ) ? Do+ I / We / You / They + V?
Does+ He / She / Lan + V?

( not I / We / You / They + don't+ V
V ) He / She / Lan + doesn't+ V

PRESENT PROGRESSIVE
Hiện tại tiếp diễn
Now, at present, at the
moment, today, these
days, !, am/is/are. (V)
I
+ am + V-ing
We / You / They + are + V-ing
He / She / Lan + is + V-ing
Are + You / They
+ V-ing?
Is + He / She / Lan + V-ing?
I
+ am not+ V-ing
We / You / They + are not+ V-ing
He / She / Lan + is not+ V-ing

Exercise 2:
Write the negative form of sentences 1-5 in exercise 1

What aren't you doing in town this morning ?
I'm not looking for a present for my
mom.
I don't start school at nine.
I don't have cereal or toast.
Don't you always go shopping on Saturday
mornings ?

Exercise 3:
Read this interviews on page 6 again. Find examples of:

Bamboozle:
Friends Plus 8
Starter Unit Lesson 2

Exercise 4:
Pronunciation: Consonant clusters

Consonant clusters in
phonics can appear at the
start of a word, for
example:
/s/ /t/
in stay
•/f/ /r/
in friend
•/c/ /r/
in croak
Or at the end of word:
•/s/ /k/
in task
•/s/ /t/
in fast
•/n/ /t/
in went
•/n/ /d/ in sound

Exercise 5:
Complete the phone conversation on the right using
the correct present simple and present continuous forms of the verbs.

1. I'm sitting
2. Do you want
3. I'm doing
4. Are you doing
5. I don't usually do
6. They always finish late
7. Miss Macken does not
usually check
8. She always checks
9. I'm not coming town

Exercise 6:
Work in pairs. Match 1-8 with a-h.
Then ask and answer the questions with your partner.

1e
2g
3a
4f
5d
6h
7c
8b

Exercise 7:
USE IT! Work in pairs. Write another six question words in blue in
exercise 6.
Then ask and answer the questions with your partner.
What do you both have in common?
What are the differences?

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Thank You

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