Grammar Practice - Herbert Puchta, Jeff Stranks, Peter Lewis-Jones 2012
Present simple negative
To form the present simple negative you use do + not (don't) or does + not (doesn't).
I / You / We / They don't speak Italian. (don't = do not)
He / She / It doesn't like carrots. (doesn't = does not)
1 Match the pictures and the sentences.
1 He doesn’t like carrots.
2 They don’t live in a house.
3 It doesn’t live in a house.
4 They like carrots.
5 They live in a house.
6 They don’t like carrots.
7 She lives in a house.
8 He likes carrots.
2 Make the sentences negative.
1 Jack plays guitar in my band.
Jacк doesn’t play guitar in mу band.
2 My brothers speak French.
3 I love Aaron.
4 Sally eats lots of vegetables.
5 We play tennis every day.
6 My dog likes cats.
7 They walk to school.
8 Dad reads the newspaper in the mornings.
3 Complete the sentences with the negative form of the verb and a word from the box.
German
volleyball
newspapers
horses
spinach
mornings
drums
red
1 I eat broccoli but I don’t eat spinach.
2 Paul plays guitar but he ...
3 Susie plays tennis but she ...
4 You like nights but you ...
5 My parents speak French but they ...
6 We like pink but we ...
7 I read books but I ...
8 My brothers ride bikes but they ...
4 Do the animal quiz. Complete with the verbs.
5 Read the text and complete it with the correct form of the verb.
Saturdays
Ken and Kelly are twins. They’re 14. They 1live (live) in a big house with their mum. Their dad 2doesn’t live..... (not live) with them. Ken 3... (love) football. He 4... (play) it every Saturday morning and 5... (watch) it on TV every Saturday afternoon. Kelly 6... (not like) football. She 7... (love) ballet. She 8... (go)...... to classes every Saturday morning. In the afternoon she 9 ... (not watch) TV with Ken
- of course. She 10... (meet) her friends and they 11... (go) shopping. They 12... (not buy)
- they just 13... (look) in the shop windows.
And their mum? On Saturday mornings she 14... (drive) Ken to football and then 15... (take) Kelly to ballet. In the afternoon she 16... (cook) dinner and 17... (clean) the
house. The children 18... (not help). They’re too busy! - That’s what they say!
In the evening they all 19... (sit) on the sofa and they 20... (watch) a film. Mum 21... (not see) the end of the film because she 22... (fall) asleep. Ken and Kelly 23... (not know) why.