1. UNIDAD I
BE
HAVE
HAVE GOT
PRESENT SIMPLE
PRESENT
CONTINUOUS
2. WE USE THE VERB ¨BE¨ TO TALK ABOUT:
• This is Karen Brady.
• She is veri intelligent
People and
thing:
• It´s really hot at the moment.
• I´m honest.
Current states:
• My car is japanese.
• My partners aren´t rugged.
Qualities
(adjetives)
3. • This book is boring.
• She is very fat.
Opinions:
• My flat´s close to the city centre.
• It´s past quarter five.
Position/Locatiio
n and time:
• Karen Brady is a business person.
• We´re students.
Someone´s job/
position:
4. * We use forms of HAVE, not have got, with past and
future tenses:
EX: When I was a child I had a pet cat
EX: We will have a house.
* In past questions and negative sentences we use
did/didn´t.
EX: Did you have a car when you were living in Paris?
EX: I didn´t have travel in the foreign.
5. We use both HAVE and HAVE GOT to talk about:
RELATIONSHIPS
POSSESSIONS
FEATURES
ILLNESS
APPOINTMENT
We can also use HAVE + NOUN (but not have got) to talk
about some things we do:
HYGIENE AND APPEARANCE
FOOD AND DRINK
EXPERIENCES
SPECIAL EVENTS
ACTIVITY (OR LACK OF)
COMMUNICATION
6. POSITIVE
• I live in London.
• She goes to the shopping
NEGATIVE
• I do no (don´t) live in an apartment
• He doesn´t work.
Questions
• Do you work in an office? (No, I don´t)
• Does she like the city? (Yes, she does)
7. Most verbs take ¨S¨ in the third person singular
I read/ he reads I eat/she eats
Verbs ending in ss – sh – ch – x and o, takes ¨ES¨
I kiss/ He kisses I live/ she lives
Verbs ending in a consonant +Y, drop the –Y and takes
¨IES¨
I try/ he tries I run/ she runs
Verb ending in a vowel +Y, simply takes ¨S¨
I buy/ he buys I drink/ she drinks
8. USES
We use the present simple:
o For facts (things that are always true)
o For permanent situations
o To describe opinions and ideas
o To describe likes and dislikes
o Repeated actions or daily routines
o General truth or law of nature
o Programmes or timetables
o Adverb of frecuency
o When we describe what happens in a film, play or book.
9. QUESTION WORD
We put question word in fornt of present simple yes/no
questions.
EX Why do people grow?
Where does water come from?
When do you finish my
homework?
What does this word mean?
How does a nurse work?
10. POSITIV
E
• I´m having lunch.
• She is working in the computer.
NEGATI
VE
• I´m not watching TV.
• She isn´t eating the dinner.
QUESTI
ON
• Are you cooking? (No, I´m not).
• Is she running aaway? (Yes, she is)
11. USES
We use the present continuous for:
o Action happening while we are speaking.
o Actions happening around the time of speaking
o Temporary situations
o Time expressions: now- at the moment- today- this
week-
o We use ¨always¨ to critice another person´s actions
o To talk about things that are changing as we speak
o To describe what is happening in pictures an photos.
o We use these verbs cwhen we talk about change
happening around now: get- change- become-
increase- rise- fall- grow- improve- beging- start-
more and more.
o For continuing, unfinished actions which are not
actually happening at the moment of speaking with
12. STATE VERBS: describe rather than actions, ways of
thinking or feeling. These verbs are not usually used in the
continuous form.
• Verbs of feeling/wanting like, love, dislike, hote,
prefer, need, want, wish.
• Verbs of thinking/believing believe, doubt, forget,
Know, mean,realise, think.
• Verbs of being/oppearing appear, be, seem.
• Verbs of possesing/ relating belong, contain, have
(got), own.
• Some verbs hear, see, smell, taste.
EX: I forget my copy book in the institute
13. PRESENT SIMPLE PRESENT
CONTINUOUS
• Permanent situations,
thing we do not expect
to change
• Temporary situations, for
a limited period of time.
• Regular actions, habits
and routines
• Actions that are
happening at/around the
time we are speaking.
• Time expressions:
usually, often, every day,
once a month, at the
weekend.
• Time expressions: (right)
now, at the moment,
today.
• To describe events in a • Something that is
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