We use does / does not (doesn’t) with he (for example, your Dad), she (for example, your Mom) or it (it can be your pet) in questions and negative sentences:

Does he like his buns with honey?

Does she want to spend much money?

Does it really look funny?

He doesn’t like his buns with honey.

She doesn’t want to spend much money.

It doesn’t really look funny.

Play! Dear friend, let’s make up our own poem (like the one about the cowboy-hamster) starting with: “Do you often…?”, “Does he always…?” and the like. We bet you know a lot of words and phrases, but maybe the following ones will help you a little: often bake a cake, seldom eat a pie, always lock the door, never wash your hands. Well done!

Now read the text below, find all the examples of do/does in it and count them. There should be 7 of them:

Mr. Hamish wakes up at 7 o’clock every day. But does he go to work at once? – No, he doesn’t! He usually feeds his dog named Ham. When Ham is not hungry any more, it wags its tail to show that it’s happy. Does Ham bark? – No, it doesn’t, because it doesn’t want to wake everybody up. Does Mr. Hamish’s wife wave him good-bye? – Yes, she does, – and he leaves for work.

Great! Remember, though, that in other cases (with I, we, you, they) we should use Do or do not (don’t).

Play! The next game is Simple, as everything is in Present Simple. Just answer the questions and follow your answers. Try to answer every question that you see in the scheme below:

Look! There is a beautiful she-hamster coming to us. What does she have in her paw? Do you like her dress? She’s got such cute ears, hasn’t she?

Talk! Do you have a garden? What do you usually plant in your garden? What would you plant in the garden of your dream? What is your favourite flower?

Her name is Sally. She hums a rhyme to herself. Can you hear it? Shush! Let’s listen now!

Let’s plant a flower!

There she goes, goes, goes

And she knows, knows, knows

Where to go and what to do

To plant a rose, rose, rose!

Sally wants to play with Homiq, Hammy and you! Someone is here to join you. Guess her name from the poem below:

Autumn…

Leaves are falling down,

Waves are coming from the sea.

A marsh-mallow in my tea

Yummy as can be.

Sand brings joy to me.

Pay attention to the first letters of each line. Who wants to help?

Sally has got a bag of words-seeds which she wants to plant into the magic pots.

Here you can see a bag of seeds:

And let’s have a closer look at the pots below.

So, we’ve got two pots. The seeds themselves are magic too – they can talk! In other words, they are Speaking. And we’ve got one pot for Speaking seeds (S-pot) and the other one is for Easy Speaking seeds (ES-pot). The seeds are so funny, especially Easy Speaking ones! One kind of them buzzes a lot. They go buZZ-buZZ all the day. Another kind of seeds goes CHoo-CHoo or even CHatter-CHatter all day long. Still another one goes hiSS-hiSS. There is a kind that always says Oh! to this chattering. There is also a kind that tries to silence them all and says SHuSH! And when all is silent finally, another one says: eXcellent! So, we end up with something like the following chat: