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Test yourself: present simple 

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  Start by asking students to read the first part of the 

Refresh your memory

 box, entitled 

Present simple

. If students 

need more practice in how to use this tense, ask them to work 

through exercises 1, 2, 3 and 4 in the 

Grammar and practice

 

section (page 118 in the Student’s Book, answers on page 116 

in this book) before they do this exercise.

Ask students to complete the exercises with a partner. Check 

answers with the whole class. Ask students to tell you which 

words helped them with the matching activity.

AnSWeRS:

  1  do

  2  attend

  3  enjoy

  4  spend

  5  like

  6  creates

  7  work

  8  develop

  9  travel

 10  spend

 11  want

 12  search

 13  buy

 14  send

 15  don’t have

 16  work

 17  am

 18  is 

 19  doesn’t have

 20  meet

 21  doesn’t like

 22  thinks

1  human resources manager

2  computer programmer

3  business student

4  architect

FuRTheR pRACTICe

Write some of the keywords on cards and issue these at 

random to students. Students should create a sentence 

referring to themselves and their work / life / study, using 

the verb on their card, e.g. 

create, enjoy,

 

travel, spend, 

attend.

For more practice with adverbs of frequency and time 

expressions, get students to work through exercises 5–10 in the 

Grammar and practice

 section (page 118–119 in the Student’s 

Book, answers on page 116 in this book).

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1.3 Grammar

ground. People believe that if a groundhog sees its shadow 

on this day, there will be six more weeks of cold weather.

4  Bastille Day is the French national holiday and it is 

celebrated each year on the 14th of July. On this day in 

1789 the Bastille, a prison in Paris was attacked by the local 

residents. Every year there are military parades.

5  April Fool’s Day, is not a real holiday, but is celebrated in 

many countries on April 1st by playing jokes on friends and 

neighbours.

6  In Japan, April 29th is Showa Day. This was the Emperor’s 

birthday and it begins a week of festivals, called Golden 

Week.

7  The Day of the Dead in Mexico is the 1st of November. On 

this day people visit the graves of their families and they 

also build and fly large kites.