aca Getting started 1. The text below is from an interview with Jodie Foster, a Hollywood actress and director. Read the text and answer the questions. a) In what ways is Jodie Fosters life not like a stars life? ) Why does Jodie want to have an ordinary life? that is as un-stalike as she can make it. She | refuses to have a personal assistant, does her own food shopping and takes her oven letters to the post office. “Ihave always lived like that | she says, ‘and I always will, I don't want to become | someone who dest know how odo things. 11 in | odie enjoys living a ie sound Los Angles Calcutta and I need to get to Bombay and a flight gets cancelled so I need to take the train, I want to know hhow to do that’ She lives in a rented apartment in Hollywood and says that, when she is not working, her favourite thing is to do absolutely nothing! 2 Look at these present simple sentences from the text: ‘She refuses to have a personal assistant, does her own food shopping and takes her own letters to the post office. 1 dont want to become someone who doesnt know how to do things She lives in a rented apartment in Hollywood How much do you know about the present simple? Underline the correct choice, i) ot i), below: a) The present simple is used to talk about things that are: 4) generally true ii) happening now ») It is used to say how often something happens, with words like: iD for and since 1H) always, sometimes and never ©) tis made like this: 4) T/you/ we / they take it) 1/ you/ wer they takes she (he it takes she he / it take 4) Negatives and questions are made with: 4) do and does ii) didLooking at language ‘The present simple Use We use the present simple to talk about things and situations that are generally true: Digital cameras cost alot of money. They have very complex parts and they use alot of battery power. She's 27 years old and she has a small flat. ‘The general truth can be: 1 a repeated action: She takes the train to work, but I usually drive. ‘© a permanent situation: She lives in a small flat in London, ‘The present simple can also be used in informal stories. For example, describing a film scene or telling a joke She waiks into the room, and sees the bottle and two glasses on the table, so she knows ‘This man goes into a bar, and orders an orange juice and a packet of crisps 1 Fillin the gaps in this text by another Hollywood actress with verbs in the present simple. Life is pretty busy at the moment. [11 14-hour day, but I'm lucky because we're filming in the Santa Monica mountains, 15 minutes from home. Im usually up at 4 a.m, My husband 2 vp then, too ~ he 3 to work before the phone starts ringing — and, after a coffee, 14 to Agoure to arrive at exactly 5.42. Its a wonderful drive ~ 1 see mountain lions, coyotes and sometimes snakes. My day 5 with hair and make-up. Then it’ straight into filming, {om Radio Times, 9-15 November 1996) Form [ Positive statements | Negative statements Whe questions 1/you/we/they play | Tdo not (don) play Where do you play? she/he /it plays she does not (doesnt) play _| Where does she play? non (doesn) play _| Whee _| Yes /No questions Positive short answers Negative shore answers Do you play? Yes, 1d. No, t dont Does she play? Yes, she does | No, she doesnt. Spelling . . Other spellings of the third person singular are: t= inverbs which end in sh, ch, ss, x, an es is added: washes, watches, kisses, fixes. This is pronounced /12/ 1s in verbs which end in a consonant +y, the y is changed to an i and es is added: ery ~ tries, carry ~ carries. M2 Tae eneser sieOther points = We can say how often something happens with adverbs of frequency like (nearly) always, usually, (quite) often, sometimes, (almost) never: ‘She nearly always takes the train to work. dont often go shopping 1 Note the present simple form of to be: Lam, you / we / they are, she /he / iis '= Note the third person singular forms: have ~ has, do ~ does, go ~ goes. = We often use you + present simple to mean ‘everyone’ ‘You need two photos to get a passport. = We use the present simple question What do you do? to mean ‘What's your job?” See Unit 3 for a comparison of the present simple and the present continvious Getting it right D-Exercise 1 Subjects and verbs In the advertisements below, fill in the gaps with the correct pronoun from the box. The form of the present simple verb (e.g. doesn't have or don't have) will help you. he it you 1 she they Ut rE ali meets Ra ‘This special warmer gives you all the same warmth as a traditional hot-water bottle but... if... deesn’t have the problem of dangerous hot water, 1 just put it in the microwave to heat up, and 2 stays hot for hours, 3 always use mine on cold nights. I's so easy to use!” This electronic dictionary contains over DIETING SUCCESS 100,000 words. Does your weight depress you? 4. ut rods wo sal bats or fos Do vou hat dieting? dnd Orda nats nse fr many Dr Dares ie ou can On pele Ste coei ey nd ths news De Des ae how bag, so can take it wherever you go. nt es ® eae & 9 ‘shows you how to change 7 neve go amtee witty eecvone | Br 0 ow 9 tg dictionary. My colleagues often want to borrow it, and my daughter uses it too - 8 checks her homework with it” ow, and 10 ‘thank Dr Daves for that. Extension Write a similar advertisement for something you have bought recently, cmon nc:D-Exercise 2 Asking questions Linda Magee, a television news reporter, was interviewed about her day. Use the underlined sections of the article to write the interviewer's questions. | _get_up_around 7.00, some time before my husband, Alan. 1 He's a photographer. so he can often choose the time of day that he wants to work. | don't have breakfast, 2 be Leat a lot of snacks i but | get breakfast for the kids before I leave the house. 3 They usually have fruit and cereal or toast. 4 generally walk or cycle to work unless the weather's bad, and 5 ittakes about half an hour on foot and about ten minutes by bike. When | arrive, 6 ss the day's main stories with the news editor over a cup of coffee. We usually prepare the midday news after that, but sometimes new stories ‘come in and we have to start again. At 11.00 Sandy, 7 the hair and make-up assistant, gets me ready for the camera. 8 lust before the broadcast | often feel nervous, even after all these years! 9 The programme starts at exactly 12.00 and 10 lasts 20 minutes. Then it's back to the news editor to do the whole thing again in time for the 4.00 broadcast. Example: What time do.you. getup? 1 2 3 4 5 D-Exercise 3. Learning from learners Look at this extract from a learner’ letter to a penfriend. There are 11 mistakes in it Find them and correct them. The first one has been done for you. Dear Aeram, am Thark you for your very interesting letter. I very pleased to be your pentriend. Are you really have a swimming pool in the. garden? Tt sound wonderful. As you know from my advertisement, I have. [7 years old and came from Cartagena in Chile. I've got two sisters, haria and Fernanda, and they is both older than me. Hy father own a small paper factory, but my mother don't work. We. living in a house just outside the city. I enjoying playing football and I am like science-fiction films nie THe pResenr sinceb-Exercise 4 Written practice Write a description of the world’ largest shopping centre using the information below and the verbs in the box in the order given. West Edmonton Mall, Alberta, Canada 5.2 million square feet. Visitors’ spending: $16 million per day. 800 shops, 110 restaurants (25,000 meals A 30-minute drive from the city centre. a day). 26 cinemas but no theatre. 20,000 staff. Open 08.00-24,00. 20 million visitors per year. (adapted fom an article by Michael Booth, The Independent on Sura, 19 January 1997) “cover have serve employ attract spend be have nothave open close West Edmonton Mall covers 5.2 millon square feet and has 800 diferent shops. Its 110 restaurants Classwork 1 Work in groups of three or four. Learner 1 thinks of a job. 2 Learners 2, 3 and 4 ask him / her questions in the present simple to find out what the job is They can only ask ten questions, Learner 1 can only answer Yes, Noor Sometimes Example, Do you get up early? Yes, Ido. Do you wear a uniform? Yes, Ido Does this job need a lot of qualifications? No, it doesnt. Do you work inside? No, I dont Is the job very well-paid? No, isnt ‘Are you a postman? Yes, Lam. en |