Secondary 1 - Grammar - Unit 1

Secondary 1 - Grammar - Unit 1
Present Simple

Name ______________________________________

Date ______________

1. Rewrite using the word in brackets to give the same meaning.

We have a picnic every weekend. (always)

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I never forget people’s names. (do not)

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Amir is always late for work. (goes)

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I don’t eat fish at all. (never)

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This bag differs from that one. (is)

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2. Correct the underlined mistakes.

Samy is a famous doctor who works in a big hospital in Cairo. He always (1) waking up at 7.30, then he goes to the hospital. He usually (2) starting work at 8.30. He often (3) finish his work there around 3.00 and then goes home to have lunch with his family. He sometimes (4) is returned to the hospital in the afternoon. In the evening, he goes to his clinic to check his patients. He never (5) leave the clinic before 11.00. When he returns home, he (6) have dinner with his family, as usual. Before he sleeps, he sometimes (7) is liking to read a book or listen to music.

1. _________ 2. _________ 3. _________

4._________ 5. _________ 6. _________

7. _________

3. Find the mistakes and correct them.

During summer holidays, my brother Ali and I usually get up late and play all day. We often goes to the cinema at weekends. Sometimes we travelling for a week or so to Alexandria. We likes to spend our days on the beach. We never feels tired.

(You will find four mistakes.)

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4. Match the phrases and rewrite each sentence below.

A	B
1. Dr Zahi Hawas wants to	A. a space scientist and geologist.
2. Dr Ahmed Zewail now helps	B. an expert squash player.
3. Dr Farouk El-Baz is	C. scientists to make new medicines.
4. Ramy Ashour is	D. satellites to find water under the desert.
5. Remote sensing is the use of	E. bring ancient things from museums abroad.
	F. underground water.

1. ______________________________________________________________

2. ______________________________________________________________

3. ______________________________________________________________

4. ______________________________________________________________

5. ______________________________________________________________

5. Read the paragraph. Underline the correct word in parentheses.
Every year thousands of children (goes - go – gone) to doctors because they (has - have - having) back pain. It seems that the cause of this problem is that young children usually (carries - carry - carried) too many books that aren’t all needed at school. They (carry - carries - carrying) more than 25 percent of their body weight in one bag. A lot of parents often (doesn’t realise - not realize - don’t realise) what (happens - happening - happen) to their children until their children (starting - start - starts) to complain about back pain. School teachers are advised to (give - giving - gives) each child a schedule that has all books and copybooks needed for each day. Parents must (helps - helping - help) their children to (putting - put - puts) in their bags only the books needed for the following day.

6. Read the paragraph. Join the underlined sentences using the words in parentheses.
Ahmed always likes to learn foreign languages. He learns English and French at school. He is better in English than in French. He always watches a lot of films and TV programmes in English. He sometimes listens to English songs on the cassette and the radio. He is very good at speaking English. He is very weak at writing. He needs to exert more effort to improve his writing.

He learns English and French at school. He is better at English than French. (but)
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He is very weak at writing. He needs to exert more effort to improve. (so)
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Secondary 1 - Grammar - Unit 1
Present Simple
ANSWERS

1.
Answers may vary.

We always have a picnic at the weekend. OR We always picnic at the weekend.
I do not / don’t forget people’s names at all. OR I do not / don’t ever forget people’s names.
Amir always goes to work late.
I never eat fish.
This bag is different from / than that one.

2.
1. wakes 2. starts 3. finishes 4. returns
5. leaves 6. has 7. likes

3.
During summer holidays, my brother Ali and I usually get up late and play all day. We often go to the cinema at weekends. Sometimes we travel for a week or so to Alexandria. We like to spend our days on the beach. We never feel tired.

4.

E Dr Zahi Hawas wants to bring ancient things from museums abroad.
C Dr Ahmed Zewail now helps scientists to make new medicines.
A Dr Farouk El-Baz is a space scientist and geologist.
B Ramy Ashour is an expert squash player.
D Remote sensing is the use of satellites to find water under the desert.

5.
Every year thousands of children go to doctors because they have back pain. It seems that the cause of this problem is that young children usually carry too many books that aren’t all needed at school. They carry more than 25 percent of their body weight in one bag. A lot of parents often don’t realise what happens to their children until their children start to complain about back pain. School teachers are advised to give each child a schedule that has all books and copybooks needed for each day. Parents must help their children to put in their bags only the books needed for the following day.

6.
He learns English and French at school, but he is better at English.

He is very weak at writing, so he needs to exert more effort to improve.

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