English Beginners Course Lesson 11
Introduction
This tutorial is focusing on the “Present simple, exercises of the Present simple, affirmative, negative and interrogative forms, with verb exercises.
Dialogue
1/Sentence Practice
Do you have?
You have a dog. Do you have a dog? They have a cat. Do they have a cat?
I have a car. Do I have a car? She has a sister. Does she have a sister?
Yes, she has a sister. We have a car. Do we have a car? Yes, we have a car.
I have a yellow shirt; you have a wife; he does exercise; she walks; it works; we run; you walk; they run.
What do you have? I have a car. Where do you have a car? I have a car here.
How does he help? When does she have a walk? I have a house.
Does it have a garage? Yes, it has a garage.
Why don’t you have a car? I do not have a car because I do not want a car.
I don’t have a motorcycle because I don’t want a motorcycle.
Can I have a car? What car can I have? When can I have a car?
Vocabulary
2/Vocabulary Practice
- You have a dog.
- Do they have a cat?
- We have a car
- She has a sister
- a wife – wives
- to do
- to do exercise
- to walk
- to run
- to have a walk
- she walks
- they run
- a house
- to have a house
- to help
- a garage- garages
- it has a garage
- a motorcycle – motorcycles
- to want
- i don’t want
- because
- Can i have…?
- When can i have…?
Grammar
3/Question and negative forms in the present simple / simple present.
We have to use the auxiliary “do” to form the negative and interrogative forms.
Examples:
I eat cheese.
I don’t eat cheese. / I do not eat cheese.
Do you eat cheese? / Do you not eat cheese? / Don’t you eat cheese?
Let’s start by conjugating the verb “to do”
Please note that the third person singular (he, she, it) has a different ending to all the others.
Positive form
I do
You do
He does
She does
It does
We do
You do
They do
Negative form: long and short forms
I do not > I don’t
You do not > you don’t
He does not > he doesn’t
She does not > she doesn’t
It does not > it doesn’t
We do not > we don’t
You do not > you don’t
They do not > they don’t
Question form
Positive question forms:
Do I…?
Do you…?
Does he…?
Does she…?
Does it…?
Do we…?
Do you…?
Do they…?
Negative question forms: long and short forms
Do I not…?
Do you not…?
Does he not…?
Does she not…?
Does it not…?
Do we not…?
Do you not…?
Do they not…?
Don’t I…?
Don’t you…?
Doesn’t he…?
Doesn’t she…?
Doesn’t it…?
Don’t we…?
Don’t you…?
Don’t they…?
We use “do” or “does” to make a question int he simple present tense, except for questions with the verb “to be” and modal verbs like “can”.
“Do” + S + V + O + ?
Do + I/you/we/they + verb + object + ?
Do you speak English?
“Does” + S + V + O + ?
Does + he/she/it + verb + object + ?
Does he speak English?
Questions and Answers
4/Questions and Answers
Do you have a dog?
Yes I do, I have a dog.
Is my shirt yellow?
Yes, your shirt is yellow.
Why do you commute?
I commute to go to work.
How do you commute?
I commute by train.
Do you have a motorcycle?
No, I do not have a motorcycle.
Why don’t you have a motorcycle?
I don’t have a motorcycle because I have a car.
Does your car have a garage?
Yes it does.
Why don’t you have a car?
I don’t have a car because I have a motorbike.
Do you have a cat?
No, we do not.
When do you walk?
I walk in the morning.