1.2 I don't like violence

Icono de iDevice The Present Simple tense (negative)

Listen to Claudia Boscolo's likes and dislikes carefully. Listen to it only once.

Can you answer the question asked at the beginning of the video: What types of films does Claudia dislike (Not like)?

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Now, watch the video again, on this occasion from the beginning to the end and answer the following questions.

1. What does Claudia do for a living?

       
She is a musician.
She is an English teacher.
She is a famous composer.

2. What is Claudia interested in?
       
Literature and Art.
Architecture and cards.
Creatures and farms.

3. Apart from Art exhibitions, Claudia likes...
       
... going to the theatre.
... music.
... watching TV.

4. Does she have a favourite musician or composer?
Writing
By Judy Baxter. C. Commons
       
Yes, she does.
She doesn't mention it.
No, she doesn't.

5. She likes films based on...

       
... famous people's lives.
... novels or reality.
... TOEFL.

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Paying attention to some of the sentences Claudia uses to refer to dislikes, we use the auxiliary verb DO to make negative sentences in the Present Simple Tense (except in the case of modal verbs such as "can't": I can't jump over that fence / No puedo saltar esa valla).

So, we have:

Subject + DO + NOT
 (Short form)
 		+ Verb
 + (Indirect Object) + (Direct Object)
I / you / we / they
 + DO
 +
 NOT
 (don't)
 +
 like
 +
   +
 action movies.

he / she / it

+

DOES

+

NOT

(doesn't)

+

have

+

 


+ a favourite musician or a favourite composer.
Paco and his friends
 + DO + NOT (don't) + drink +   + alcohol.

Icono IDevice Example exercise
  1. I work on the literature of Renaissance.
    2. Yes!
    By Frans Schouwenburg. C. Commons
  2. We like going to Art exhibitions.
  3. Claudia loves music.
  4. She is interested in classical music.
  5. They have a favourite musician and a favourite composer.
  6. She enjoys going to the cinema.
  7. Our teacher, Claudia, comments on films and books.

Can you say the negative of the previous sentences?


Icono IDevice Further knowledge
  • To improve the structure of negative sentences in the Present Simple tense, click here.
  • And if you to practice with negative sentences in the Present Simple tense, click here.

We use the auxiliary verb to do to say negative sentences in the Present Simple Tense. However, at this point, you should have notice that something happens in the third person singular of the Present Simple tense. Let's see what it is in the next section!

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