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Family descriptions
graMMar present simple vs present continuous
1. Study the table. What signal words can you add to each tense?
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Rule!
Use Present Simple to talk about:
things happening all the time: facts, habits and routines, repeated actions
We often watch TV together. My parents work 5 every day. Use Present Continuous to talk about:
things happening at the time of speaking or around a present time:
We are watching TV now. My parents are now working today.
Signal words
never / usually / sometimes / often / always / rarely every day/week/year on Fridays, on weekdays, at the weekend now / right now / at the moment today / these days this week/month Look! / Listen! Hurry up!
2. Complete the pairs of sentences with the correct form of the same verb.
1) a) Every morning mother cooks/is cooking breakfast for us. b) It is 8 o’clock now. Mother cooks/ is cooking breakfast. 2) a) Every day father leaves/is leaving the house at half past eight. b) Now it is half past eight. Father leaves/is leaving the house. 3) a) We often watch/are watching TV. b) Now we sit/ are sitting in armchairs and watch/are watching TV. 4) a) Sometimes Mike does/is doing his lessons in the evening. b) Look at Mike! He does/is doing his lessons. 5) a) Every day the family has/is having tea at 5 o’clock. b) It is 5 o’clock now. The family has/is having tea.
Remember!
What do you do? = usually What’s your occupation (job)? I am a teacher/ work as a teacher or I teach English/at school. What are you doing? = now I’m having a rest. Nothing! I’m at home. I’m busy, I’m in the lesson. How are you doing? = How are you? Fine, and you? Not bad, thanks! Everything is all right!
3. Look at the pictures and make sentences in the present simple and continuous. Answer the questions What does he/she do? and What is he/ she doing?
My mom/designer: (to design clothes for women / my costume for a fancy party)
My grandma/ a housewife: (to do all the housework / the food shopping) Ex: My father/an engineer: (to build houses/ a tree house at home).
My father is an engineer, he builds houses. Today is his day-off, and he is building a tree house for us in the garden.
My brother/doctor: (to help ill people in hospital / with Science homework)
My uncle/a chef: (to cook in a restaurant/ a family dinner)
My grandpa/ a mechanic: (to repair cars / his old bike)
My cousins/ pupils at school: (to study in year 5 / to take a field trip)
4. Complete the text with the correct option.
Andrew’s parents are at work. They never close/closing their shop on Saturday because people usually buy/are buying food at the weekend. At the moment they serve/are serving customers. There are also some children in the shop. They look/are looking at the sweets and cakes. Children sometimes come/are coming to the shop but they don’t often buy/aren’t often buying anything.
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like, look like, be like
5. Look at the pictures and study the meanings.
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: to look like PERSONALITY: to be like PREFERENCES AND TASTES: to like
6. Match the answers to the corresponding questions.
What does he look like? What is he like? What does he like?
He has got short brown hair. He is hard-working and athletic but untidy. He likes driving Formula One cars.
1) What’s Andrew like? 2) How are you doing? 3) Who do you look like? 4) What do you like? 5) What does he look like? 6) What’s she like? 7) Who does Mike look like? 8) What does she look like? 9) How’s your mother? 10) Who’s Ann like? a) She’s very pretty and slim. b) She’s very shy. c) My mother. d) Like her mother, very kind. e) She’s ok now. f) He’s tall and fit. g) Sports cars and scary films. h) Not bad, thanks! i) He looks like his father. j) He’s very friendly and cute.
7. Complete the sentences with an appropriate verb: like, look like or be like.
1) What ___ your son ___ to do after school? – Skating or riding a bike, with friends. 2) My daughter ___ ___ a princess in this dress! So beautiful! 3) We ___ spending time together as a family. 4) Who ___ she ___? – Like her mother, very hardworking. 5) What does your sister ___ ___? – She’s tall and slim with blue eyes. 6) What ___ they ___? – They are friendly and funny.
