Do you live in Heathfield?
(
TAG RESPONSE
: ‘Yes, I do’/‘No, I don’t’)
Does
James work in an office?
(
TAG RESPONSE
: ‘Yes, he does’/‘No, he doesn’t’)
And we also use do when we start a sentence with a question word
such as how . . . ?:
How do
you know Jo?
How does
Charlie go to work?
The negative of the present simple uses don’t/doesn’t /`dəυnt/
/`dznt/:
I don’t speak
Italian.
My sister doesn’t speak
Italian either.
Exercise 2
Look at the answers and complete the questions. The first one is
done for you.
1 Where does Fred work? (Fred)
He works in a shop.
2 ____________________ ? (drink tea)
No, I don’t.
3 ____________________ ? (that bus/station)
Yes, it goes to the station.
4 ____________________ ? (Spanish)

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: That’s his wife. She’s called Debbie, and she’s from
Australia.
J
ULIE
: Do they live here?
C
HRIS
: No, they live in Australia – in Sydney. He’s a lorry
driver, and she’s a nurse.
J
ULIE
: Do they both work in Sydney?
C
HRIS
: No – Debbie works in one of the hospitals, but Dave
drives all over the country.
J
ULIE
: Have they got any children?
C
HRIS
: Two boys.
[Julie turns the page] Here they are – Simon and James.
J
ULIE
: How handsome they are!
C
HRIS
: Thank you!
Language point 13 – weak forms

r
//ə
r
/
from /frɔm/ /frəm/
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Dialogue 6
Two people meet one morning in a crowded café in London.
A
NDY
: Do you mind if I sit here?
B
ETH
: Not at all.
A
NDY
: It’s busy in here, isn’t it?
B
ETH
: It’s always like this in the mornings.
A
NDY
: Do you live round here?
B
ETH
: No – I live a few miles away. But I work just round the
corner. What about you?
A
NDY
: I’m visiting friends for the day.

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Language point 14 – forms of the verb

-
FORM
(for example, speak changes to spoke, not ‘speaked’), and
there are spelling rules as well (for example, stop, but stopping not
‘stoping
’).
We will deal with all these things as the course goes on – all you
have to do for now is remember the names of the forms and what
they look like with a regular verb.
In this unit we have seen the base-form and the
S
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FORM
. We saw
that the s-form is used in the
PRESENT SIMPLE
in the third person
singular, but that otherwise the present simple is the same as the
base-form; and we saw Andy in Dialogue 6 use the base-form after
Do you mind if I . . . ?
In the next unit we will look at the
ING
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FORM
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Dialogue 7
Jane brings the coffees over – but she can’t remember who ordered
what.
J
ANE