Compare their lifestyles

13. Describe the working day of a clerk. Use the following office timetable (in a humorous way):

9:00 Starting time

9:30 Arrive at work

9:45 Coffee break

11:00 Check e-mail

11:15 Prepare for lunch

12:00 Lunch

2:45 Browse the Internet

3:00 Tea break

4:00 Prepare to go home

4:30 Go home

5:00 Finishing time

14. Comment on the following:

1. Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

2. We are what we eat.

POINT OF GRAMMAR

Present Simple (Indefinite) Tense

Alex is a bus driver. He drives a bus.

• The earth goes round the sun.

• Nurses look after patients in hospitals.

• In Britain most of the shops close at 5.30 p.m.

"s":

I work in a bank. Barry works in a shop.

• Excuse me, do you speak English?

• "Would you like a cigarette?" "No, thanks. I don`t smoke."

• What does this word mean?

• Rice doesn`t grow in Britain.

• I get up at 8 o`clock every morning.

• How often do you go to the dentist?

• Ann doesn`t often drink tea.

• In summer Tom usually plays tennis.

Present Simple

FORM

I we you they	drive
he she it	drives
Question (вопрос)	Negative (отрицание)
Do	I we you they	work?	I We You They	don`t	work.
Does	Jack Sue he she it	Jack Sue He She It	doesn`t

• There is only one form of you in English, which is the same in singular

and plural.

• Note the endings with he, she, and it. If the verb ends in ss, sh, ch, or x,

add - es:

He finishes {finish ends in sh)

She watches (watch ends in ch)

USE

• For something which is permanently true:

I come from France.

He doesn't speak Spanish.

We live in London.

• For repeated actions or habits:

1 get up at six o'clock every day.

What time do you leave work?

I don't see them very often.

Exercises: