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Present simple (positive and negative; questions and short answers)

like + -ing
Vocabulary: hobbies and interests, school subjects

Read and listen b CD1 T6 Now read the text again and listen. Answer
the questions.
a Look at the pictures. How old
do you think the girl is? What 1 Where is Claire from?
is her hobby? Read the text 2 How is Claire different from her friends?
quickly to check your ideas. 3 Why don’t Hannah and Kate go near the hives?
4 What does Claire like doing on Sunday afternoon?
5 Why does she keep the money from the honey she sells?

Claire Williams is 15. She’s from Wales. Her friends play

volleyball and go to the cinema. They like swimming and
dancing. But Claire doesn’t. She has an unusual hobby:
beekeeping. She’s got four beehives. She isn’t sure, but she
thinks she’s got about 40,000 bees.

In the spring, this is a typical Sunday for Claire:

7.30 Claire gets up. She has breakfast with her parents.
8.30 Claire puts on her special clothes and goes out into the
garden. She feeds the bees with sugar and water. She
sometimes takes photos of the bees, too.
11.00 Claire’s friends Hannah and Kate come round. They don’t
go near the hives. ‘We enjoy watching Claire with the In the summer, Claire’s bees produce about 40
bees,’ they say. ‘But we’re a bit scared of them!’ Claire talks kilos of honey. Claire takes the honey to a little
to her friends for a while. Then Hannah and Kate say shop and sells it. She doesn’t spend the money,
goodbye, and Claire goes back to the bees. because she wants to buy more beehives!
1.15 It’s lunchtime. Claire likes telling her family about bees.
‘They fly 80,000 kilometres to make one kilo of honey!’
she says. ‘And they visit about three million
flowers!’
3.00 In the afternoon, Claire stays in her room.
She loves reading about bees on the
internet or in books.

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2 Grammar c Look at the pictures. Write present simple sentences.
Present simple Use like, love or hate and a word from the box.
(positive and negative)
cats football apples ice cream bananas winter
a Look at the examples. Then
complete the rule.
They play volleyball.
Claire gets up at 7.30.
Claire’s friends come round.
She takes the honey to a little
shop.

RULE: We use the present

simple for things which 1 He likes apples. 2 I .
happen regularly or which
are always true.
With I, , we and
we use the base
form of the verb. With he,
she and it we add .

3 She . 4 They .
With he, she and it,
some verbs end in es.
-sh they wash – she washes
-ch we teach – he teaches,
I go – she goes
If the verb ends with consonant
+ y, the ending is ies.
they fly – it flies
you study – he studies 5 She . 6 We .

b Complete the sentences. d Look at the examples and complete the table.
Use the present simple form Claire doesn’t spend the money.
of the verbs. They don’t go near the hives.
1 Sara loves (love) films.
Positive Negative
2 My friends (hate)
sport. I/you/we/they run I/you/we/they (do not) run
3 You (take) good he/she/it runs he/she/it (does not) run
photographs.
4 Mrs Jameson
(teach) us English. e Complete the sentences. Use the present simple form
of the verbs.
5 My father (fly) to
France twice a year. 1 I don’t like (not like) this kind of music.
6 My mum (read) a 2 We (not eat) a lot of meat at home.
lot of books. 3 My parents (speak) French.
7 We (go) to school 4 I (not know) his phone number.
at 8.30 in the morning. 5 My brother (get up) late at the weekend.
6 My father (not drive) to work.

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 A B
f Make the sentences negative.
1 My brother spends lots of
money on clothes.
My brother doesn’t spend lots
of money on clothes.
3
2 I get up early on Sunday.
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3 My sister watches a lot of TV.
.
4 I buy my CDs in that shop.
.
5 You know the answer.
. D

E
3 Vocabulary
Hobbies and interests
a CD1 T7 Match the activities
with the pictures. Write 1–9 in
the boxes. Then listen, check
and repeat.
1 going to the cinema
F
2 reading
G
3 swimming
4 painting
5 playing computer games
6 dancing
7 listening to music
8 playing the guitar
9 running

b Match words from the three lists to make five true

sentences. H

play
plays
don’t play
magazines.
doesn’t play
the guitar.

{ }
I listen to
pop music.
My friends doesn’t listen to
computer games.
My brother go
tennis. I
My sister goes
to football matches.
doesn’t go
a newspaper every day.
read
don’t read
doesn’t read

Vocabulary bank Turn to page 112.

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4 Grammar 6 Listen
like + -ing a CD1 T8 Listen to the interview. Which
a Look at the examples and complete picture shows Mark’s hobby?
the rule.
They like swimming and dancing
dancing.
We enjoy watching Claire with the bees.
She loves reading about bees.
I hate getting up early!
3
RULE: We often use the 1 2
form after verbs of liking and not
liking, for example, like, don’t like, b CD1 T8 Listen again. Write T (true) or F (false).
love and hate. 1 Mark gives shows once a month.
2 He learns new tricks on the internet.
3 Mark practises every day.
4 Mark’s brother wants to be a magician.
If the verb ends in e, we drop
the e before -ing.
dance – dancing, smile – smiling 7 Pronunciation
If a short verb ends in vowel + CD1 T9 and T10 Turn to page 110.
consonant, we double the last letter
before -ing.
swim – swimming, run – running 8 Grammar
Present simple (questions and short
answers)
b Complete the sentences. Use the -ing
form of the verbs in the box. a Read the examples about Mark’s hobby and
complete the table.
ride run play go listen talk Do your friends know about your hobby? Yes, they do.
Does it take a long time to learn? Yes, it does.
1 Maria hates listening to jazz.
Do you tell your brother how to do the tricks?
2 My brother doesn’t like No, I don’t.
games.
3 My sister loves her bike. Questions Short answers
4 My dad enjoys on the beach. I/you/we/they Yes, I/you/we/they do.
5 I love to my friends on the study English? No, I/you/we/they (do not).
phone. he/she/it like Yes, he/she/it .
6 We love to football matches studying English? No, he/she/it doesn’t ( not).
at the weekend.
b Complete the questions and short answers.
5 Speak 1 A: Does Jeremy like swimming?
a Work with a partner. Talk about the B: Yes, he does (✓) .
hobbies in Exercise 3. 2 A: you study French?
I love … I (don’t) like/enjoy … B: (✗) .
I hate … I’m (not) good at … 3 A: your friends listen to music?
B: (✓) .
b Make notes and tell other people
in your class about your partner’s 4 A: she go to your school?
hobbies. B: (✓) .

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 9 Read and listen
a Nadia, Sarah and Caroline go to School clubs
the same school. Read the text
Caroline, Sarah and Nadia are all students at Park
quickly and find:
School, in the north-west of England. It’s an all-girls
1 five subjects that they study school – the Park School for boys is not far away in the
during the day same town.
2 three different clubs at the school
The three girls are all 14 and they’re in year 9.
b Look at the pictures. Which things During the school day, they study subjects on the
are school subjects? Which are National Curriculum: subjects like English, Maths,
clubs? Write S (subject) or C (club) History, Geography, PE and ICT (Information and
in the boxes. Communication Technology). They also study two or
A B three languages (for example, French or Spanish) and
they do Science: Biology, Chemistry and Physics. And
they each do two creative subjects: they can choose
from Music, Technology and Drama. But there’s more.

‘The school’s got lots of extra-curricular things too –

S especially clubs,’ says Nadia. ‘If we want to, we can do
all kinds of different activities. For example, there’s a
C D
horse-riding club and a gymnastics club. Lots of the
clubs meet at lunchtime, but some of them are after-
school clubs.’

Caroline says, ‘We can choose from lots of things.

There’s a theatre group, and a school orchestra. I’m in
the orchestra – I play the trombone.’
E F ‘My favourite club is the pottery club,’ says Sarah. ‘I love
doing artistic things. But I’m in the sailing club, too.
The boys from the boys’ school come to this club too.
We learn about sailing during the week, and then some
weekends we sail on a lake near here.’

Teachers organise some of the clubs at the school. Some

G H
clubs get help from parents of children at the school. All
of them are free.

‘I think the clubs are a really good idea,’ says Nadia. ‘We
have a lot of fun and we learn different things.’

Sarah agrees. ‘We can develop our own interests

and hobbies in the clubs. I hope that we can start a
I J
photography club soon!’

16 UNIT 1
 0 Write
a Imagine that Lisa is your new e-pal and
this is her first message to you. Read
her message. What are her hobbies
and interests?

from: [email protected]

subject: Hello!

Hi!

I’m Lisa Franklin. I’m British and I

live in Southampton. I’m 15.

I love sports. My favourite hobby

is painting. I also like taking
photographs (I’m in a photography
club at school) and I enjoy riding
my bike. I love watching sport on
TV, especially tennis! I really like
Rafael Nadal.

My best friend is Sonia. We listen to

music a lot, and we often go to the
cinema together too. Her favourite
actor is Ben Stiller. I think he’s very
funny, but my favourite actor is
Johnny Depp.

Write soon!

Lisa

c CD1 T11 Read the text again and listen.

Write T (true) or F (false).
1 Sarah, Caroline and Nadia are all
14 years old. b Write an email in reply to Lisa. Include this
2 They don’t study languages. information:
All the clubs meet after school.
For your portfolio
3 ● your name, nationality and age
4 Caroline plays the trombone in the ● where you live
school orchestra.
● your hobbies and interests
5 Sarah is in a sailing club.
● some information about your friend(s).
6 The girls’ parents organise all the
school clubs.
7 Their parents have to pay for the girls
Speak
to be in a club. a Work with a partner. Think of five questions
8 There is a photography club at the that you would like to ask Sarah from Park
school. School.
d Is this school similar to yours, or very b Work with your partner: one of you is the
different? Discuss this question with interviewer, the other one is Sarah. Ask and
a partner or in small groups. answer your questions.

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