General English Level 1 V 3


	UNIT 01 Who am I ? TOPIC 03 My friends

	LANGUAGE FOCUS 08 The simple present tense, third person

Nat and Julia say:
Nat	I love curry.
Julia	My flatmate cooks good curries. She comes from Japan. She works in the city.

Loves , cooks , comes ,and works are verbs. They are in the present simple tense. We use the present simple tense to talk about now .

I
We
You
They

eat
live
study
have

He
She
It

eats
lives
studies
does
has

Examples

1	Read the sentences
2	Click on each sentence to listen.
3	Practise saying each sentence.

Verbs ending with s , sh , ch , o add es .
For example:
I wash my clothes. He wash es his car.

Verbs ending in y, y changes to i then add es .
For example:
I study English. She stud ies Business.

Now go to 09 LANGUAGE FOCUS Wh- questions with 'do' and 'does'.