English Grammar Exercises for A1 – Present simple: affirmative and negative

1) aunt and uncle ____________ (live) in the USA.

2) Rosie ____________ (have) music lessons every weekend.

3) best friend ____________ (play) in the school basketball team.

4) I ____________ (study) Russian at school.

5) cousin and I ____________ (like) football.

6) stepbrother ____________ (watch) TV every night.

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1) live 2) has 3) plays 4) study 5) like 6) watches

2. Complete the sentences. Use the present simple affirmative form of the verbs in the box.

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1) sister ____________ Japanese lessons at weekends.

2) Ellie’s parents ____________ at a hospital in the USA.

3) neighbour ____________ from France.

4) We ____________ friends in town every Saturday evening.

5) I ____________ late on Sundays.

6) grandfather ____________ four languages.

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1) has 2) work 3) comes 4) meet 5) get up 6) speaks

3. What do they do on Saturdays and Sundays? Look at the chart and write sentences about the activities.

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1) play tennis

Hannah and Sam play tennis on Saturdays.

2) study maths

3) eat pizza

4) watch TV

5) listen to music

6) go out

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2) Sofia studies maths on Saturdays.

3) Tom eats pizza on Saturdays.

4) Tom watches TV on Sundays.

5) Hannah and Sam listen to music on Sundays.

6) Sofia goes out on Sundays.

4. Put the words in the correct order to make sentences.

1) sister / go out / / doesn’t / a lot

sister doesn’t go out a lot.

2) New York / parents / live / in / don’t / Tom’s

3) pizza / brother / eat / doesn’t /

4) teacher / our / doesn’t / work / Sundays / on

5) Lady Gaga / like / / don’t / parents

6) Chinese / Sam / speak / doesn’t

7) friends / Elizabeth’s / like / we / don’t

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2) Tom’s parents don’t live in New York.

3) brother doesn’t eat pizza.

4) Our teacher doesn’t work on Sundays.

5) parents don’t like Lady Gaga.

6) Sam doesn’t speak Chinese.

7) We don’t like Elizabeth’s friends.

5. Make the sentences negative.

1) I live in a big house.

I don’t live in a big house.

2) dad works in a hotel.

3) friends like sport.

4) best friend speaks Japanese.

5) We go to school on Saturdays.

6) brother has guitar lessons.

7) grandmother watches TV all day.

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2) dad doesn’t work in a hotel.

3) friends don’t like sport.

4) best friend doesn’t speak Japanese.

5) We don’t go to school on Saturdays.

6) brother doesn’t have guitar lessons.

7) grandmother doesn’t watch TV all day.

Challenge!

Write six sentences about your family and friends. Use the present simple affirmative or negative. Choose from the verbs in the box.

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dad likes ice hockey.

cousin Anna doesn’t live in this country.

1) _____

2) _____

3) _____

4) _____

5) _____

6) _____