General English Level 1 GELEV1 Unit 01 Topic 03.doc Information More contractions We make contractions with other words: How’s your curry? = How is your curry? What’s her name? = What is her name? Sometimes we use n’t for not: aren’t = are not isn’t = is not Examples Tom isn’t a student. He’s a teacher. Julia and Geng aren’t friends.  LANGUAGE FOCUS 08 The present simple tense, third person Nat and Julia say: Nat: I love curry. Julia: My flat mate cooks good curries. She comes from Japan. She works in the city. Love, cooks, comes and works are verbs. They are in the present simple tense. We use the present tense to talk about now. Look I We You They eat live study have 38 QUESTLANGUAGE