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Exercise 1: Direction: Use To Clues in The Brackets Below To Create Negative Sentences. Use Only Short Form

The document provides exercises to practice using the phrase "would rather not" in negative sentences. It begins with examples of the positive and negative forms. Exercise 1 has students fill in sentences using clues in brackets. Exercise 2 has students reorder words to form sentences with "would rather not." Exercise 3 has students rewrite sample sentences using "would rather not" instead of "don't want to." The exercises allow students to practice transforming sentences to the negative form using the phrase "would rather not."

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Exercise 1: Direction: Use To Clues in The Brackets Below To Create Negative Sentences. Use Only Short Form

The document provides exercises to practice using the phrase "would rather not" in negative sentences. It begins with examples of the positive and negative forms. Exercise 1 has students fill in sentences using clues in brackets. Exercise 2 has students reorder words to form sentences with "would rather not." Exercise 3 has students rewrite sample sentences using "would rather not" instead of "don't want to." The exercises allow students to practice transforming sentences to the negative form using the phrase "would rather not."

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Name: _____________ Level: ___ Date: ________________

Main Focus: Grammar (Would Rather not)


Positive Form
 She would rather note stay home.
 They would rather note take a bus.
Form
Subject + would rather + not + base form of verb (would rather can be reduced to ‘d rather)

Exercise 1
Direction: use to clues in the brackets below to create negative sentences. Use only short form.
1. (she / watch telly): ___________________________________________________________
2. (they / play video games) : _____________________________________________________
3. (I / surf the net): _____________________________________________________________
4. (you / drive a car): ___________________________________________________________
5. (he / go for a walk): __________________________________________________________
6. (we / skip a bath tonight ) : ____________________________________________________
7. (it / sleep early): _____________________________________________________________

Exercise 2
Direction: put the words below in the correct order. Subject + would rather + not + base form of verb
1. Not / tonight / sleep / rather / would / I / here. _________________________________________
2. to do / she / rather / would / not / for / a job / look . _____________________________________
3. at university/would/not/they/rather/to learn more/study. __________________________________
4. to quench thirst / would / we / rather / watch / drink. _____________________________________
5. Today / walk / rather / work / would /not/ he / walk / to. ___________________________________
6. the evening / would / people/not/rather / exercise / in: ______________________________________

Exercise 3
Direction: rewrite the sentences below using “would rather not”

1. She would like to watch TV so much. She doesn’t want to play video games at all.
 She would rather not play video games.
2. They would like to buy an IPhone, but they don’t want to buy a Nokia phone.
 _____________________________________________________________
3. Students would like to play games in the classroom, but they don’t want to stay home
 _____________________________________________________________
4. They love to drive a car, but they don’t like to drive a motorbike.
 _____________________________________________________________
5. People like to care about themselves, but they don’t usually think about other people’s feelings.
 _____________________________________________________________
6. I love to listen to music, but I don’t like to listen to lesson MP3.
 _____________________________________________________________
7. She loves to speak, but she doesn’t want to listen to others.
 _____________________________________________________________

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