Present tenses Review

Third person Verb Rules

Open Ended

Make a sentences with the verb FIX and the subject MARLON.

Open Ended

Make a sentence with the verb CRY and the subject AUNT.

Use this auxiliary verb only with first & second person I/YOU or plural nouns WE/THEY.

You can also give this subjects a name: Marcos & I, My family, people, The teachers.

Don't use the third person verb rules every time you have a pair or group of subjects.

Animals: (The cats, Oxen,Wolves)
Stuff: (The cars,Brooms,Clothes)
Places: (Colombian towns)
People: (Children,Men, Lola & me)

Use this auxiliary verb only with the third singular pronouns HE,SHE & IT remember I & YOU are not included.

You can also give this subjects a name: Louis, The neighbor, the computer e.t.c

Use the third person verb rules every time you have one subject except I & You

Animal: (Fish, Mouse, Raccon,goose)
Stuff: (Shovel,Kniffe,fork,Needle )
Place: (Peru, Flat, The loo, Chia)
People: (Child, Woman,Lola, Marco)

Multiple Choice

There are some rules we have to follow when creating simple present sentences

with third person so, read carefully and choose the option that fills up the requirements.

• Our teacher doesn’t give us a lot of homework.

• Our teacher don’t give us a lot of homework.

• Our teacher doesn’t gives us a lot of homework.

• Our teacher don’t gives us a lot of homework.

Multiple Choice

This sentence has a mistake, where is it?

Alice have long, wavy,black hair.

• In the order

  of the adjectives.

• In the verb.

• All of above.

Fill in the Blank

Put the corresponding auxiliary verb. Do/Don't/Does/Doesn't

Hermes ____ like having rib broth for breakfast

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Fill in the Blank

__ we have enough flour to make some pancakes?

Fill in the Blank

We__ need any of you to fix our bike!

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Fill in the Blank

___your niece like baggy clothes?

Use them to express how often do you do certain activities. These expressions are mostly used in present simple to talk about routines or daily life activities.

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Advers of
Frequency

Multiple Choice

How do we make negative sentences with adverbs of frequency?

• A. Using the adverb

  Never.

• B. Using the auxiliary

  Doesn't

• C. Using the adverb

  Harly Ever.

• A and C

  are correct.

Multiple Choice

Which of these sentences is incorrect?

• A. She is never eats cake.

• B. She is always cunning

• C. She sometimes doesn't eat cake.

• A and C are incorrect.

Open Ended

Make sentence that express a feeling using the adverb SOMETIMES.

Use this verb to show ownership or possesion in terms of material goods, people appearance & features, events, eating meals, hygiene routines expressions, ilness symptoms etc.

1. I have a huge house. 3. They have a big party tonigth.
2. We have hazel eyes. 4. I have breakfast at 8am everyday

5. I need to have a shave
6. Do you have a headache?

This verb has exactly the same meaning of have. Nevertheless is a conjugated version, used with the third person HE,SHE & IT in AFFIRMATIVE sentences.

1. Hernan has brunette skin.
2. She has a great sence of humor.
3. Lola has an English class at 6pm.

Open Ended

Make an example using the verb HAS to describe a person feature.

Multiple Select

Choose the sentence or sentences that got a mistake.

• He need to have a shave both in the morning and in the evening.

• He needs to have a shave both in the morning and in the evening.

• They have a 15-hour flight from Rome.

• I’m going to has a bath.

Open Ended

Make a sentence using the verb HAVE to express an activity.

These, are things, actions or activities happening just right now that means simultaneously.

I'm writting a letter while my mom is dying her hair and my dog is barking at the door.

Present progressive uses

They are general situations occuring in the present. It means situations evolving or in progress.

Me and my best friend are learning baking this month.

These, are plans or premeditated actions we want to develop in the nearby future.

Tomorrow, I'm buying some provisions for my next vacation trip.

straightaway actions

SITUATIONS AROUND THE PRESENT

FUTURE ARRANGEMENTS

Multiple Choice

Clasify the following sentences in one of the present progressive categories.

A. Bogota's weather is getting worse

• There isn't
• SITUATIONS AROUND THE PRESENT.

• STRAIGHTAWAY

  ACTIONS.

Multiple Choice

My cousin Arnold is sewing a dress while his daughter watches her favorite show.

• FUTURE ARRANGEMENTS.

• SITUATIONS AROUND THE PRESENT.

• STRAIGHTAWAY

  ACTIONS.

Multiple Choice

Ester is buying a lot of clothes as soon as she gets her salary.

• STRAIGHTAWAY

  ACTIONS

• SITUATIONS AROUND THE PRESENT

• FUTURE ARRANGEMENTS

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct sentence.

• A. I'm not doing anything this evening, I have already finished my chores.

• B. She isn't meeting her friends tomorrow. They called off their meeting.

• C. Where are they going this weekend? Lola want to join them.

• A & B

  are correct

• There is no mistakes.

1.Words that you can count using numbers: 1, 2, 3…
2. They have a singular and a plural form: apple/apples tomato/tomatoes …
3. You can use the articles “a” or “an” before these words: an apple, a banana …
4.For questions, you have to ask “how many… are there?

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Countable Nouns

Countable Nouns

1.Words that you cannot count using numbers.
2. If your want to count them use quantities or containers.
3. They are singular, most of the time.
4. You cannot use “a” or “an” with these words.
For questions, you have to ask “how much… is there?

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These words, are expressions we use with count and noncount nous to express the amount or quantity of these nouns.

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Quantifiers

Multiple Choice

Read carefully and choose the corresponding quantifier.

I have got .......................... pairs of shoes and I do not need any more. 

• A few

• A little

• Many

Multiple Choice

I spend ............................... money every week.

• A lots of

• many

• A lot of

Multiple Choice

I need .......................apples for the apple pie but I don't have ................... .

• some/some

• any/some

• some/any

Multiple Choice

Doctors advise us not to take too _____ sugar as it is bad for our health.

• many

• few

• much

• little

Multiple Choice

Have you got ....... potatoes?

• any

• some

• an

Multiple Choice

My sister has ___friends.

• A lot of

• lots of

• many

• all of above

We use these expression to show ownership & the existence o​f food, stuff e.t.c located at an specific, identified place.

1. There is some milk left in the carton.

2. There isn't any cake left, we eat it all lastnight

There is/are

​Demostratives

These expressions have exactly the same eaming as in present, but there is a detail, in here we are talking about something we don't have anymore, maybe we run out of it, is broken or we threw t it away

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Demostratives in past.

Fill in the Blank

Observe the pictures and complete the sentence by using There is/There are/There isn't/There aren't

___any flour left to make a cake.

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Fill in the Blank

___ many biscuits in the pacage.

Fill in the Blank

___ enough pancakes just for so many people.

'

Fill in the Blank

___much orange juice for breakfast.

In order to describe a noun we have to take into account an order when placing the adjectives.
If there is any category that is not accurate when describing a subject you could just skip it and continue with the next category.

The verbal tence you normaly use for this is the simple present with verb to be.

Describing
Nouns

Multiple Choice

Choose the option that correctly follows the adjective order.

• She is wearing a skirt chic. Is beautiful,mermaid,trendy, peach & Italian, organza one.

• She is wearing a chic, beautiful,mermaid,trendy, peach & organza Italian skirt.

• She is wearing a chic, beautiful,mermaid,trendy, peach & italian, organza skirt.

• She is wearing a chic, trendy, peach, beautiful,mermaid, & italian, organza skirt.

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct option taking into account the correct order of the adjectives.

• Some tables are great, huge & antique, wooden pices of forniture to eat on.

• Some tables are, huge,great, antique, wooden pices of forniture to eat on.

• Some tables are great, huge,antique, wooden pices of forniture to eat on.

• Any of the these options are correct.

Multiple Choice

Choose the option that correctly follows the adjective order.

• A.She is a gorgeous,nice,

  young,brunette,

  thai woman.

• B.Laura is a woman gorgeous,nice,

  young,brunette

  and thai.

• C.She is a gorgeous, thai, nice,

  young,brunette,

  woman.

• A and C are correct.

We use these words to point at someone or something located at a general determined distand from the peroson that is speaking

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Demostratives

Multiple Choice

__ _ my husband, Marco.

• This is

• That are

• These is

• Those are

Multiple Choice

__ _ my brother, the one with the yellow jacket.

• This is

• These is

• These are

• That is

Multiple Choice

__ _ my pets. Pandora the kitten, Paco the parrot & the dogs, Giorgio and Donatello.

• This is

• That is

• Those are

• Those is

Multiple Choice

__ _ my parents, Kate & Matt.

• This is

• These are

• Those are

• These is