Наречия частотности ( Adverbs of frequency )

Настоящее простое время (Present Simple).

Grammar

Tori Mitsui was 100 in 2000. He was born in a small village near Hiroshima in Japan. His parents were poor farmers. Today he lives with his son, Seiji, who is 76.

Born in 1900.

Elementary

‘ Things were very different then. We were very poor, and life was very difficult.Sometimes there wasn’t much food, and sometimes we were hungry. There were no school in the village - we worked on the farm. There were eleven children in our family. My younger brother, Jun, was my best friend, but when he was seven he died. I was very sad. Our house was very small; there were six boys in one bedroom! But it’s funny, we were usually happy….my childhood was a happy time in my life.’

Estelle Dupont was also 100 years old in 2000. She was born near Bordeaux in France, where her father was a rich businessman. Today she lives in an old people’s home in Paris.

‘My father was a rich businessman in a chateau about ten kilometers from Bordeaux. Our home was very comfortable. The house was very big – there were twenty bedrooms, beautiful gardens…and lots of servants! But my childhood wasn’t happy. I was an only child, my mother was always ill. She died when I was eight, and my father died two years later when I was ten – it was a very bad time. I was a very unhappy child – life is better now!’

Употребляется для обозначения обычного, привычного действия, характерного

для настоящего.

I/ You/ We/ They work. Do I/ you/we/ they work? I/ you/ we/ they don’t work.

He/ she / it works. Does he/she/ it work? He/she/ it doesn’t work.

Упражнение 1. Употребите глаголы в Present Simple.

a) My sister / have / two children.

b) I / like / football.

c) My father / work / in a bank.

d) My friends / play / football.

e) My aunt / live / in Tokyo.

f) We / go / on holiday every year.

Упражнение 2. Задайте вопросы к предложениям.

a) you / speak / Spanish?

b) your father/ drink beer?

c) you / like reading books?

d) your mother / play tennis?

e) you / do the housework?

f) your friend / sing in a band?

Упражнения 3. Напишите выделенные глаголы в отрицательной форме.

a) I speak German but I_____ Italian.

b) She likes swimming but she _____football.

c) He plays the guitar but he ______the piano.

d) They work in a restaurant but they______ at the weekend.

e) He sings in a band but he______ in a shower.

f) She drinks tea but she_______ beer.

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always

usually

sometimes

not usually

never

В предложении наречия частотности стоят перед смысловым глаголом.

I always get up early.

He usually has coffee for breakfast.

We don’t usually watch TV in the evening.

Однако в предложениях с глаголом to be эти наречия ставятся после глагола to be.

He is usually at his office in the morning.

I am always busy.

Упражнение 4. Поставьте наречия в предложение.

a) We go our holiday home.(sometimes)

b) I go for a walk before going to bed. (always)

c) I am tired when I get home. (usually)

d) We don’t go to the beach in summer. (usually)

e) Juana is late for class. (never)

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