THE PRESENT SIMPLE - FORM
Statements						Third-person singular - spelling
I	work		we	work		-ES - after -s, -sh, -ch	finishes
you	work		you	work		-IES - after consonant + y	carries
she/he/it	works		they	work		-S - after vowel + y	pays

Negative Statements
I	do not / don't work		we	do not / don't work
you	do not / don't work		you	do not / don't work
she/he/it	does not / doesn't work		they	do not / don't work

Yes/No Questions
Do you	work?		Yes, I do.	No, I do not / don't.
Does she	work?		Yes, she does.	No, she does not / doesn't.

Information Questions
Where	do you work?		In London.
When	does he work?		In the evening.
How	does she work?		Very well.
Information Questions (Subject)
Who	works in London?		Peter does.
What	happens in the story?		A murder.

 
My name is David Cosby. I am from England originally, but I live in Australia now with my wife and two children. I work for a travel agency.

On Saturdays my wife and I go shopping. Our son, Tom, usually goes to see a film with his friends, and our daughter, Mary, plays tennis at her club.

On Sundays we stay at home and read the newspapers.

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Paco López is often away on business, so he doesn't have a lot of "normal" days. But when he's not away, he starts work at about nine o'clock. He doesn't have breakfast at home, he has it at half past ten or eleven in a café near his office. A lot of people do that in Spain.

Paco has lunch at half past two, and starts work again at half past three or four o'clock, but he doesn't have a "siesta". People in the cities don't do that. He finishes work at about eight o'clock. Most people have two or three good breaks in the day, so they finish later.

After work a lot of people go to a bar. Paco has a beer or a glass of wine and tapas, then he eats with his family at about half past nine. After the meal he watches TV or plays with his children. They are six and eight, but they don't go to bed before eleven o'clock. That's normal.
Paco and his wife go to bed after midnight.

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INFORMATION QUESTIONS

My name is John Gittins. I come from LA but now I live in Cambridge, England, with my wife and two children. The Cambridge area is the British “Silicon Valley” – where you can find many computer and electronics companies. I work for ECI, that’s Electronic Communications International. It’s an American company. We program online information for travel and finance companies.

On Saturdays my wife and I go shopping, and then I go jogging or play tennis with the kids. On Saturday evenings we often cook dinner for friends and the kids sometimes go out. On Sundays we usually stay at home and read the newspapers, watch TV or use the computer – we are all Internet fanatics! In the evenings we go out to a restaurant for dinner. I like Italian food and Californian red wine.

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