Exercise 3 Put the verbs in brackets into the present simple or the present continuous.

1. Tom ____ (travel) all over the world at present.

2. They ____ (relax) right now.

3. ____ (you/believe) in ghosts?

4. ____ (this box/belong) to you?

5. Peter and Susan ____ (fly) to Madrid on Tuesday.

6. What ____ (you/ think) about?

7. His sister ____ (have) three cups of coffee every morning.

8. What kind of music ____ (she/listen) to at the moment?

9. John always ____ (get up) late on Sunday.

10. Rick usually ____ (buy) souvenirs when he ____ (go) on holidays.

 

Exercise 4 Choose the correct version.

1. Tony and Tina are going to a rock concert tonight/every Tuesday.

2. Louise takes karate lessons on Wednesdays/at the moment.

3. Does Bob usually/right now visit his grandparents at the weekend?

4. Sometimes/ At the moment he is sending an e-mail to his friend.

5. Beth goes jogging these days/twice a week.

6. Paul never/at present tells lies.

7. He is not working at the moment/on Saturdays.

Speaking: Getting to know each other

Complete the groups of questions 1-5 below with a verb.

HOME AND FAMILY

Where ____ you from?

Where do you ____?

Do you ____ any brothers and sisters?

 

JOB / STUDIES

                               What do you ____?

 

Where do you ____?                        What school / university do you ____ to?

           

 

Do you ____ your job?                       What year ____ you in?

             

          Do you ____ any foreign languages? Which?

FREE TIME

What kind of music do you ____ to?

Do you ____ a musical instrument? Which?

Do you ____ TV? What programmes?

Do you ____ any sport or exercise? What?

What books or magazines do you ____?

 

THE FUTURE

Where are you going to ____ after the class?

What are you going to ____ this weekend?

 

THE PAST

Where ____ you born?

Where did you ____ English before?

What did you ____ last summer?

 

UNIT 2 FAMILY LIFE

Text: Mother love Grammar: Past Simple Past Continuous Vocabulary

Vocabulary & Speaking

Check the meaning of the words in the box in your mini-dictionary. Then write the words in the table below.

acquaintance boss cousin head teacher neighbor relative

aunt classmate ex-girlfriend husband niece stepmother

best friend colleague flat mate mother-in-law parent stranger

family
friends
work
school
other

Match the questions in column A with the short answers in column B.

A                                                                               B

1 Are you married? 2 Is your family very large? 3 Were you born in this town? 4 Is your father a good cook? 5 Are your parents from this town? 6 Are there many people with the same name as you?

a Yes, I was. b Yes it is. c Yes, there are. d No, I’m not. e No, he isn’t. f No, they are.

Rearrange the words to make questions.

1 are family how in many people there your?

2 are names their what?

3 are how old they?

4 are hobbies their what?

5 born parents were where your?

6 family in is person the who youngest your?

7 family holiday last was when your?

Reading: Mother love

 

Gemma Burford Enolengila

Gemma was born in 1978 in a quiet village in the south of England. Her mother worked in a library and her father was an accountant. When she was a student at Oxford University, she travelled to Tanzania and met her future husband, Lesikar, for the first time. The couple got married in 2003.When they had a baby (a daughter, Lucia) they decided to go and live in Tanzania. “I want my daughter to have the best life possible,” said Gemma.

Lesikar is a Masai and lives in a village near Arusha in the north of the country. There is no electricity in the home and they walk almost a kilometer to get water. Gemma cooks simple dinners of corn and vegetables and she washes the clothes in a bucket. There is a small primary school in the village, but Gemma and Lesikar will also teach Lucia at home.

Judy Boehmer

Judy had her first child, Adam, 27 years ago. She now has four sons and seven daughters and a pet dog, Bosco, but she wants more boys. Judy and her husband, Larry, live in Atlanta, Georgia, but they also have a 10-metre-long motor home. The family sometimes travels more than 40 000 kilometres a year for their work. The children do not go to school, but they study at home with their parents.

The Boehmer are a circus family and all the children take part in the show. They do different kinds of juggling and Margaret, the youngest, stands on one leg in her mother’s hand. The first show of the Boehmer Family Jugglers was at a theme park in Iowa in 1989, and they now perform all over America.