Question

3. Go back to the main text, on page 51, and use your notebook to write down at least five other verbs in the Simple Present.

4. Now transcribe the correct alternative to complete each of the sentences below.

a) Malala study/studies because she believe/believes education is important.

b) Her family run/runs a chain of schools in Pakistan.

c) She fight/fights for women's and children's rights.

d) Malala have/has two younger brothers: Atal and Khushal.

Spelling Rules

Read the sentences in activities 1 and 4 again and complete the spelling rules for verbs in the 3 person singular in the Simple Present.

a) We add////////// to most verbs.

I love/she loves-you fight/he//////////-they show/it////////////

b) We add////////// to verbs ending in o, ss, sh, ch, x.

Igo/he goes-you pass/she//////////-we wash/it//////////they teach/she ////////-I fix/he//////////

c) We change -y to ////////// when the verb ends in consonant + you study/he studies-we try/she//////////

d) But when the verb ends in vowel + -y we simply add///////////.

I play/he plays-you enjoy/she ///////////

e) And the 3th person singular of the verb ///////////////is has.

I have/he has-you have/she//////////-we have/they have/it//////////

5. Have another look at some sentences from the texts on page 53.

"It is really a means to discover new things which we don't know about and increase our knowledge."

"Education does not merely mean acquiring of a few facts of science history, literature, or art [...]."

Now answer just Yes or No to these questions:

a) Does education mean just to know some facts of different school subejects?

b) Do people need to increase their knowledge?

6. Observe the sentences in the previous activity and complete the following statements about the negative and interrogative forms of the Simple Present.

a) To make negative sentences in the Simple Present, we use do contracted form/////////////, when the subject is I/you/we/they. We use//////////// or its contracted form doesn't, when the subject is he/she/it

b) To ask questions in the Simple Present, we use the auxiliary verb/////////// before the subject when the subject is I/we/you/they. We use the auxiliary verb//////////before the subject when it is he/she/it​

Answer 1

4. a) Malala studies because she believes education is important.

b) Her family runs a chain of schools in Pakistan.

c) She fights for women's and children's rights.

d) Malala has two younger brothers: Atal and Khushal.

Spelling Rules

a) We add -s to most verbs.

I love/she loves-you fight/he screams -they show/it rains

b) We add -es to verbs ending in o, ss, sh, ch, x.

I go/he goes-you pass/she undoes -we wash/it clenches they teach/she relaxes-I fix/he tosses

c) We change -y to -ies when the verb ends in consonant + you study/he studies-we try/she denies

d) But when the verb ends in vowel + -y we simply add -s.

I play/he plays-you enjoy/she prays

e) And the 3th person singular of the verb to have is has.

I have/he has-you have/she has -we have/they have/it has

5. a) Does education mean just to know some facts of different school subjects? No, it doesn't.

b) Do people need to increase their knowledge? Yes, they do.

6. a) To make negative sentences in the Simple Present, we use do not or its contracted form don't, when the subject is I/you/we/they. We use does not or its contracted form doesn't, when the subject is he/she/it

b) To ask questions in the Simple Present, we use the auxiliary verb do before the subject when the subject is I/we/you/they. We use the auxiliary verb does before the subject when it is he/she/it​