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Read the text about Vicky’s daily life.

Choose ONE word from the box to complete the missing


words.

evening finishes go has a shower leaves


sometimes wakes up watches

What does Vicky do every day? Well, she wakes up at half


past seven. After she gets up, she 1.___________ and gets
dressed. She usually has a toast and tea for breakfast. After
breakfast she 2. _____________ home for work. When she
gets to the office, she doesn’t start work immediately.

First, she drinks coffee and then starts working. For lunch, her
friend and Vicky don’t stay at the office. They often 3.
_________________ out to a restaurant and then she 4.
_______________ goes shopping after lunch. When she 5.
______________ work, she doesn’t go home. She goes to her
French class. Then she goes to the gym and gets some exercise.
She comes home in the 6._______________ and makes the
dinner.

After she eats dinner, she takes her dog out for a walk. Before she goes to bed, she 7.
__________________TV and studies French. She sleeps at half past twelve. This is Vicky’s day. And
you? What do you do every day?

Now, look at the paragraph again and answer the questions below:

1- The text talks about what Vicky ….


a. does every day
b. is doing now
c. did yesterday

2- The paragraph uses the …


a. present simple
b. present continous

3- This tense is used to talk about …


a. Things that happened in the past
b. things that people do regularly
c. things happening now
4- In this tense, we add –s to the verb if the subject is
a. I/you/we/they
b. He/she/it

5- Sometimes we add –es to the verb. How many examples of –es can you find in the
paragraph? What are they?

6- Look at the examples you wrote for Question 5. When do we add -ES?

7- And sometimes we add –ies. There is one example in the paragraph. Can you find it?

8- There are two examples of negative sentences in the paragraph. Can you find and underline
them?

9- To make a negative sentence, we use _________ or _____________. We use


______________ after he/she/it and ________________ after I/you/we/they.

10- When we make a negative sentence, we ______ –s/-es/-ies to the verb:

a. add
b. don’t add

11- In the paragraph there are three words showing how often Vicky does something. Can you
find them?

12- What other words can we use to say how often we do something?

13- Where in the sentence do we use these words?

14- We use __________ or _____________ before the subject to make a question in this tense.

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