Namangan davlat universiteti ingliz filologiyasi fakulteti amaliy ingliz tili kafedrasi

Follow up reading
Bolitho R. Language Awareness in the English Classroom. English Teaching Professional, 6 January 1998, 3-6.
Activity 2, Handout 1
Read the following text and answer the questions below.
A mother is talking to her son about travelling from Samarkand to Tashkent by train: ‘Listen, Alex, when you go there by train… how long does it take? Four, five hours? And you don’t get bored? What do you actually do on a train?’ ‘Well, I normally just read a book or a newspaper, so it’s not really… that boring.’
• How often do you think Alex travels to Samarkand? How do you know?
• Why is the present simple used in the last sentence and not some other tense form?
• What have you noticed about the use of the present simple?