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PRACTICE 1
Simple Present Tense
Date: June 30th, 2012

I. Make sentences about what you do every day:
get up 6. wash the dishes
go to work 7. play sports
have lunch / breakfast / dinner 8. listen to music
come home 9. write letters
watch TV 10. go to bed

II. Make negative and question form:
1) We call Alan every day. 2) Emma always dreams in the lessons.
3) They look at their teacher in lesson 4) John comes home from school by bus.
5) I meet my friends every day. 6) He repairs his computer.
7) Walter always says hello to me. 8) The cat always sits under the armchair.
9) You drink too much water. 10) She sometimes forgets the lunchbox.

III. Reading:
Yamada is working for Kawaka Company and his job is to install pipes in car. He usually gets up at 6.15a.m, and has breakfast with two eggs, vegetable soup, rice and green tea. Promptly at 6.55 am, he leaves his two-room apartment to walk to the commuter train station when his children are still sleeping. Every morning, the train arrives at 7.11a.m and drops him seventeen minutes later at Hyogo station, a few blocks from work. Yamada hurriedly walks to his factory to avoid being late.
Like other workers in the factory, Yamada begins his work at 8a.m with a set of 5-minute exercises. When the noon whistle announces lunch, workers stream into the lunchrooms. They have lunch with rice, fish, vegetables, and hot tea. Lunch costs $ 1.50, of which Kamada pays 40 percent. Not much of the noon hour is spent for eating. At 12.10p.m, workers play games such as table tennis, tennis, badminton. Yamada sometimes plays badminton or joins a group of workers for talking. He rarely takes a nap after lunch.
Work resumes at 1p.m, with another set of exercises and Yamada‘s day ends at 5p.m. Sometimes he has an hour or two of overtime.
For his labour, Yamada earns $780 each month and twice a year he receives bonuses. He can count on overtime – nearly $ 300 in a typical month – to add to that. Yamada is not a college graduate so there is no chance of promotion but he likes his job because the company insures a place for his life. He says:” If you work hard, it will come back in some way.”
Make questions and answer them:
1. Where / Yamada / work?
2. How / he / go / work?
3. Why / he / hurriedly walk / his factory / after / be / drop / Hyogo station?
4. He / come home / lunch?
5. How much / he earn / a month?


IV. Writing: Use the suggestion to write about Bob Wilkins.
Bob Wilkins / work / bank / London/ he / do not live / London. He / live/ Belgium. He / not go to work every day. For two days a week / he / work / home. He / communicate / the bank / e-mail. Other days / he / travel/ London / train / the Channel Tunnel. It / cost / a lot / money / he / not want / change it / he / enjoy it. His wife / from Belgium / she / work / Brussels, so one of them / have / travel / work. They live / Belgium / they like / lifestyle there.

ANSWER PRACTICE 1
Simple Present Tense
Date: July ........, 2012

I. Make sentences about what you do every day:
Every day I get up at ..........................
I go to work at ......................
I usually have breakfast / lunch / dinner at ................
I often come home at ............................
I always wash the dishes after dinner
I usually play sport on Saturday and Sunday
I sometimes listen to music at night
I usually write letters to my friends on Sunday afternoon
I usually watch TV at night
I Always go to bed at 11

II. Make negative and question form:
1) We does not call Alan every day. Do you call Alan every day?
2) Emma does not always dreams in the lessons.
Does Emma always dream in the lessons?
3) They do not look at their teacher in lesson .
Do they do not look at their teacher in lesson?
4) John does not come home from school by bus.
Does John come home from school by bus?
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