A postcard to a friend Focus on present tenses 1 Complete the sentences. Use the present simple or the present continuous. have learn milk plant wake work Come to our farmstay! We 1have got lots of animals. Every day, we 2… up early. Then we 3… in the fields. This week, we are 4… carrots. At our farmstay, people 5… about life on a farm. Look! In the photo, the girl is 6… a cow! 2 Read the postcard and find an example of each tense. 1 Present continuous for actions happening now. 2 Present simple for habits and routines. 3 Present simple for facts and general states. Dear Sally, How are you? I’m having a great time at the farmstay. The weather is usually hot and sunny. Every day we wake up at 6:00am and have a big breakfast. All of the food is from the farm! In the afternoons we go out to the fields. I’m writing postcards now, but my brother is working in the garden. There are lots of trees there and the flowers are beautiful! Bye! Harry 3 Read the postcard again and make notes using these headings. ❚ Weather ❚ Routine ❚ Activities Weather: hot… LEARNING SITUATION You are at a camp for the Easter holidays. Write a postcard about it to a friend. 4 PLAN Write a plan for your postcard. – Say if you like it. – Say what the weather’s like. – Write about your daily routine. – Write about the activities you’re doing. 5 WRITE Use your plan and the model to write your postcard. Remember to use correct present tenses. 6 CHECK Read your postcard and check it includes all the information from your plan. ❚ Check you used verb tenses correctly. ❚ Make sure that your writing is separated into paragraphs. NOW YOU! 20 Writing Do all exercises in your notebook A postcard / Present tenses 2.4 Communication Student A: go to page 60 Student B: go to page 63 Unit 2 Review page 55 Wordlist page 67 Richmond
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