2014

Blanca Rosa Arias Loya

COMPILADORA

16/04/2014

Antología de Ejercicios de Lengua Extranjera

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Affirmative Exercise 1

Complete with the verb to be in the affirmative form.

Example: I am a student.

1. Mr. Bond _________ a teacher.

2. You___________ English.

3. We___________ American.

4. They _________ students.

5. Miss Grant ________in London.

6. She _________a teacher.

7. You __________ students.

8. New York _________ in the USA.

9. It _________a telephone.

Negative. Exercise 2

Example: I’m not English.

1. We ________ teachers.

2. Tom _________ American.

3. It __________ an elephant.

4. The telephone _________red.

5. London ________ in the USA.

6. Paco and Fernando ________ carpenters.

7. It ________a computer.

8. My sister __________tall.

9. I ________a student.

Interrogative. Exercise 3 Example: Am I late?

1. ________ you a teacher? 6. ________ we late?

2. ________ Carlos a waiter? 7. _________it a robot?

3. _________ they in London? 8.____ José in New York?

4. _________ it a computer? 9. _____ it a house?

5. __________ Martha and Francisco Canadian?

Verb “to be”

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Question words: where? What? Who?

Exercise 1. Complete the questions. Answers:

Example: where’s the Acropolis? In Greece

1. _________ is that? A table.

2. _________ ‘s Pablo Neruda? A famous writer.

3. _________ ‘s the River Nile? In Egypt.

4. _________ ‘s Madonna? A pop famous singer.

5. _________ ‘s it? Its’ an umbrella.

6. _________are Oxford and Cambridge? English university towns.

7. _________ ‘s Diego Maradonna ? A famous football player.

8. _________ is Central Park? In New York.

9. _________ is the Capital of Italy? Rome.

10. __________ are Venus and Mars? Planets.

Look at the shorts forms: Where’s (where is) What’s ( what is) Who’s ( who is)

Question Word + verb to be+ subject? Where am I? What is it?

Who are you?

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Cardinal Numbers. ( 0- 19)

Exercise 1. Complete.

a) One, three, __________, __________, __________, _____________.

b) Two, four, _________, ________, __________, ____________.

Exercise 2. Complete.

a).- 16 __________ b).- 5 ___________ c).- 8_____________

d).- 19__________ e).- 9___________ f).- 10____________

g).- 7 ___________ h).- 17__________ i).- 15 ____________

0 zero

1 one

2 two

3 three

4 four

5 five

6 six

7 seven

8 eight

9 nine

10 ten

11 eleven

12 twelve

13 thirteen

14 fourteen

15 fifteen

16 sixteen

17 seventeen

18 eighteen

19 nineteen

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Cardinal Numbers. (20- 100)

Exercise 1. Complete.

a) Twenty-one, twenty- three, __________, __________, __________,

_____________, ________________, ________________,.

b) twenty-Two, twenty- four, _________, _________, __________,

___________, ______________, ________________.

Exercise 2. Complete.

a).- 36 __________ b).- 55 ___________ c).- 18_____________

d).- 59__________ e).- 30___________ f).- 80____________

g).-77 ___________ h).- 13__________ i).- 90 ____________

j).-19 ________

20 twenty

21 twenty-one

22 twenty-two

23 twenty-three

24 twenty-four

25 twenty-five

26 twenty-six

27 twenty-seven

28 twenty-eight

29 twenty-nine

30 thirty

40 forty

50 fifty

60 sixty

70 seventy

80 eighty

90 ninety

100 a hundred

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We use the present simple for permanent states

or habitual actions.

Time expressions used with present simple:

everyday, in the afternoon, often, every

morning, in the evening, never, every year, always, rarely, at night, usually, sometimes , etc.1

Exercise 1.

Put in order the following sentences. Don’t forget to add an “s” when

necessary.

1. Speak/ German /Frank__________________________________

2. Football/ everyday/ they/ play____________________________

3. Daniel / French food/ like_______________________________

4. Drink/ my dog/ in the kitchen/ milk________________________

5. The horse/on the grass / sleep____________________________

Exercise 2.

Write sentences in present simple. Use the verbs below and invent a

complement.

Example: He / dance he dances very well.

1. You / live _________________________________________

2. Jim / work ________________________________________

3. Mary / cook _______________________________________

4. John and Pat / play _________________________________

5. The bird / drink ____________________________________

1 Virginia Evans. Round-up. English Grammar Practice 3. 9ª Ed. Reino Unido, Longman Edit.1997, P. 33.

Present Simple

Present Simple: Affirmative form.

To make the affirmative form of the present simple tense we need a subject and a verb.

we add an “s” in the verb when the person is: he, she and it.

Drive

I drive

You drive

He drives

She drives

It drives

We drive

You drive

They drive

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Exercise 1. Complete each sentence. Use the

verbs in brackets in the negative form.2

Example: Mary (like, not) doesn’t like basketball. 1.- I ( eat, not, often) ___________________fruit.

2.- My father (work, not, usually)______________in the

evening.

3.-Alex´s brothers (not

play)___________________football on Sunday.

4.-My friends (live, not) ___________________near my

house.

Exercise 2. Make negative sentences.3

Example: Alice and Mike –not / like

basketball.

Alice and mike don’t like basketball.

1.Jack-not / wear school

uniform______________________________

2.-Alice and mike-not / use computers.

____________________________________

3.- Jack-not / do his homework.

____________________________________

4.- Alice and Mike-not / drink coffee.

_____________________________________

2 Michael Vince. Elementary Language Practice. 1ra. Ed. Reino Unido, Macmillan Edit. 1999, p. 12.

3 ídem.

Present Simple

Negative form

Long form

I do not work

You do not work

He does not work

She does not work

It does not work

We do not work

You do not work

They do not work

NOTE: In informal English we can use the short form: doesn’t (does not)

don’t= do not

We use the auxiliaries do not (don’t) or does not (doesn’t) to make the negative form in the present simple tense. We put these negative auxiliaries between the subject and the verb.

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PRESENT SIMPLE: INTERROGATIVE FORM

Make questions. 4

Example: Jenny (play) tennis. Does Jenny play tennis?

1.- You (speak) French?

_______________________________________________

2.- They (eat) fish?

_______________________________________________

3.- It ( drink) milk?

_______________________________________________

4.- Peter (eat) meat?

_______________________________________________

5.- She ( understand ) Greek?

_______________________________________________

6.- Helen (like) cats?

7.- He (read) magazines?

8.- You (like) exams?

9.- Gavin and Steve (play) football?

10.- They (speak) Italian?

_____________________________________________________

4 Jon Blundell. Practising Grammar Workbook 1. 1ra. Ed. Hong Kong , Thomas Nelson y Sons Ltd, Edit.

1989, p. 25.

Present Simple

Interrogative form

Do I work?

Do you work?

Does he work?

Does she work?

Does it work?

Do we work?

Do you work?

Do they work?

NOTE: We use the auxiliaries “Do” or “Does” to make the interrogative form in the present simple tense. We put these auxiliaries before the subject.

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Countries and Nationalities. 5

País: Nacionalidad:

1) Greece________________ Greek________________.

2) France________________French________________.

3) Japan _____________Japanese ________________.

4) The United States___________________ American________________:

5) Germany__________________German_______________.

6) England ________________ English _________________.

7) Italy________________ Italian____________________.

8) Russia_______________ Russian__________________.

9) Spain________________Spanish__________________.

10) Turkey_______________Turkish___________________.

11) Mexico_______________Mexican_________________

12) Guatemala_______________ Guatemalan__________________.

13) Venezuelan_________________ Venezuelan_________________.

14) Brazil ______________Brazilian__________________.

15) Argentina______________ Argentinean________________.

16) Canada_________________Canadian_________________.

17) Egypt________________Egyptian ________________.

18) China ______________ Chinese_________________ .

5 Ejercicio adaptado de: Blundell, Jon. (1989). Practising Grammar Workbook 1. Hong Kong: Nelson Ed. p.14

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