Simple Present Everyday in the Life of Jane Johnson

1_________________________________________________________________________________ Read this story and study the verbs carefully. Every Day in the Life of Jane Johnson Jane Johnson is my name. I have my own company. Five people work for my company. Yang Fing Liu is my assistant and the manager of the company. He works very hard. Almost everyone works hard. Of course a few people don't work hard. Both Yang and I have private offices. Yang also has a co-worker. Suresh Pradith is his co-worker. He helps Yang. He doesn't help me. Suresh doesn't have a private office, he shares an office with Natasha Czielecka, she is the IT manager for the company. She works on computer programming. Suresh works on a computer but he doesn't work on programming. I don't work on programming either. I meet important visitors. I talk to visitors. Yang occasionally talks to visitors too. But he doesn't usually talk to visitors. Suresh studies statistics, then he writes reports for me. I study the reports carefully. He gets the statistics from his assistants Indira Gupta and Rachid Zaïm. They help him very much. They don't write letters. They collect information from other people. Then they give the information to Suresh. He collects information too. Then he gives the information to Yang or me. Yang doesn't write reports, but he writes a lot of letters. He goes through the emails. He reads them carefully. He informs me of any important emails. He doesn't inform me of the other emails. Then we answer the important ones. One of our assistants answers the others. 2_________________________________________________________The Simple Present Tense___ Use the simple present tense of each verb. Write the verb in the black space. (work) I work in my own company. (work) Suresh works very hard. (work) Almost everyone ____________ very hard. (work) We ________ from 9:00 a.m. To 5:00 p.m. (have) Yang _______ a private office. (have) I _________ an assistant. (write) Yang ___________ emails. (write) We ___________ emails back for the important one. (study) Suresh __________ statistics. (study) I ___________ the information carefully. (read) Yang _________ all of the emails (read) I ___________ only the important emails (collect) Indira and Rachid __________ information. (collect) Yang ________ information too. 3_____________________________________________________________Third Person Singular_ Change the word I to he or she. Notice the examples. I go to the office every day. He goes to the office every day. I write many letters every day. She writes many letters every day. I read all of the important letters. _______________________________________________ I study the reports very carefully. _______________________________________________ I have a private secretary too. __________________________________________________ I usually work in the main office. _______________________________________________ I meet all of the important visitors. ______________________________________________ I get the information from Suresh. ______________________________________________ I always give the reports to Ying. _______________________________________________ I answer all of the important emails. _____________________________________________ I send email to many other companies. ___________________________________________ I talk to Indira and Rachid everyday. ____________________________________________ _4_____________________________________________________Questions and Negatives_______ Does Jane Johnson have her own company? Yes, Jane Johnson has her own company? Do Jane and Yang work in the same office? No, Jane and Yang don't work in the same office? Does Yang have a private office?__________________________________________ Do they have assistants?_________________________________________________ Does Suresh help Yang? _________________________________________________ Does Suresh Help Jane or Yang ?________________________________________________ Do Jane and Yang work hard?___________________________________________________ Does Jane meet the important visitors?____________________________________________ Does Jane send emails to customers?_____________________________________________ Do Yang and Jane write many emails? ____________________________________________ Do the assistants write many emails?_____________________________________________ Does Jane send emails to customers? ____________________________________________ Do Jane and Yang write reports?________________________________________________ Does Jane study the reports?___________________________________________________ Does Jane study the statistics carefully?__________________________________________ Does Suresh have two assistants? _______________________________________________ Do Indira and Rachid give information to Jane?____________________________________ Do they give information to her assistant?_________________________________________ Does Suresh give give Jane and Yang the information?_______________________________ Does Suresh write reports everyday?_____________________________________________ Do Indira and Rachid write reports? _____________________________________________ Does Jane look at all of the emails?______________________________________________ Does Yang look at all of the emails? _____________________________________________ Do Indira and Rachid look at all the emails?_______________________________________ Do Jane read the important emails?______________________________________________ Does Jane answer all the emails? ________________________________________________ Does Jane answer only the important emails?_______________________________________ 5_______________________________________________________Do and Does in Questions_____ Write do or does in the blank space in each sentence. ___Do___ the students study hard everyday? ___Does__ Mr. Brown go to his office everyday? _________ you want cream and sugar in your coffee? _________ the children go to bed very early? _________ that girl come from South America? _________ you know that Italian student? _________ Miss Hudson prefers coffee or tea? _________ Do your English lessons seem very difficult? _________ you have a good English dictionary? _________ Mr. Roberson teach English or history? _________ Does Jane watch television every night? _________ Jane and Yang work in the same office? _________ write reports for your boss everyday? _________ those two women understand that lesson? 6______________________________________________________Don't and Doesn't in negatives__ We _________ listen to the radio every night. Mr. Johnson __________ have a private office. The boys ___________ study at the library every day. These exercises __________ seem very difficult. It __________ rain very much in June and July. The men ___________ always eat at the cafeteria. I __________ eat at that cafeteria every day. Yang _________ write reports for his boss. The Johnsons _______ watch television every night. Indira and Rachid _________ teach English at this school. That tall man ___________ work for this company. The people ___________ speak English very well. Natasha ____________ enjoy IT training sessions. 7___________________________________________________________Simple Present Listening_ Everyday in the life of Natasha Czielecka Of course, my boss, little goody two shoes that she is,1. ________ ever tell anyone all the things that really 2. _______ on in this office.3. _______ tell anyone what I say, but this is not the quiet little office that it 4._________ to be. You know Indira who 5.________ behind me. Well she secretly 6._______ Suresh but She's too shy to tell him. And Suresh well he only7._______ eyes for the boss but 8.________ want to say anything because he 9. _________ a man has to have a better job than his wife. And Yang well he 10. _________ Indira but11. _________ she doesn't go out with anyone if they aren't from India. She 12. __________ in tradition, and she 13. _________ believe in mixed marriage. I 14.__________ know much about Rachid yet, he 15.________ to himself and 16._________ talk much. But he doesn't fool me, I 17.________ there is something on his mind. And you probably 18.______ yourselves whom 19._____ I love, why myself of course.