Buổi 05 · Review daily routines

Try questions 20 min; check and correct 20; speaking 20; writing 20; record next steps 10. Familiar material: this is review.

Present simple: I/you/we/they and he/she

Use the present simple for repeated activities. With I, you, we and they, use the base verb: I work. With he, she and it, many verbs add s: she works. Some add es, as in goes; have becomes has. Lan gets up, has breakfast and goes to work. Usually and sometimes often go before an ordinary verb: I usually walk. With be, they usually go after it: I am usually busy. Use at with a time: at six. If a paragraph is about she, check every verb, not only the first one.

• I start work at eight.
• She starts work at eight.
• He has breakfast at home.
• We usually walk to work.
• She sometimes takes the bus.

Use: She starts work at eight. · Instead of: She start work at eight.

Use starts after she in this positive statement.

Use: He has breakfast. · Instead of: He have breakfast.

Have becomes has after he.

Final s in everyday actions

Keep the final sounds in starts, works and lives. After /k/ in works, s sounds /s/. After /v/ in lives, it sounds /z/. Practise the word slowly, then in a sentence. Do not add an extra syllable after s.

• She works.
• He lives here.
• She starts at eight.
• He has breakfast.

Lan is an office worker. She gets up at six and has breakfast at home. She leaves home at seven. She usually takes the bus, but sometimes she walks. She starts work at eight. At twelve, she has lunch with a colleague. She finishes work at five and goes home. In the evening, she cooks dinner. At eight, she studies English for thirty minutes. She reads a short text and says five sentences aloud. On Sunday, she does not go to the office. She visits her father and has lunch with him.

Listen twice. Keep the transcript closed until you have tried.