Choosing the verb that expresses a like in the present simple.
Which verb says that a student likes playing football?
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Respuesta correcta: B)likes
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "likes". Expressing a like in English is a compact pattern with three moving parts, the subject, the correctly inflected verb of liking and the gerund of the activity, and all three have to be right. Practising the pattern as a whole is what stops a student producing likes playing for someone else and liking for a third person, which is how the errors actually appear in their writing.
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Respuesta correcta: B)likes
A)likeThe base form like goes with I, you, we and they, and it does not agree with a third person subject.
B)likesThe third person singular of the verb to like is likes, and it takes the gerund playing for the activity.
C)likingLiking is the -ing form, which needs an auxiliary such as am to form a verb in this sentence.
D)likedLiked is the past form, and it would place the preference in the past rather than the present.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "likes". Expressing a like in English is a compact pattern with three moving parts, the subject, the correctly inflected verb of liking and the gerund of the activity, and all three have to be right. Practising the pattern as a whole is what stops a student producing likes playing for someone else and liking for a third person, which is how the errors actually appear in their writing.
Pregunta 2
Pregunta 2 · D3Bloom: Remember
Forming a negative with does not.
Which sentence says that a student does not like fish?
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Respuesta correcta: D)She doesn't like fish.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "She doesn't like fish". The negative with the third person is where most of the period's errors live, because the -s moves from the main verb to the auxiliary and is then dropped. Making that transfer visible in one short sentence is the most efficient way to teach it, and it is the same transfer required for the doesn't questions the week also needs.
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Respuesta correcta: D)She doesn't like fish.
A)She not like fish.A negative in English needs an auxiliary do or does, and not on its own cannot make this sentence.
B)She doesn't likes fish.The auxiliary doesn't already carries the third person, so the main verb has to be the base form like.
C)She don't like fish.Do not goes with I, you, we and they, and it does not agree with the subject she.
D)She doesn't like fish.The third person negative is doesn't followed by the base form of the main verb, so the verb is like rather than likes.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "She doesn't like fish". The negative with the third person is where most of the period's errors live, because the -s moves from the main verb to the auxiliary and is then dropped. Making that transfer visible in one short sentence is the most efficient way to teach it, and it is the same transfer required for the doesn't questions the week also needs.
Pregunta 3
Pregunta 3 · D4Bloom: Understand
Reading what two students say about a food.
Read: "Ana likes mango but she doesn't like papaya. Luis doesn't like mango either." Who likes mango?
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Respuesta correcta: A)Ana likes mango.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "Ana likes mango". The text contains two negatives and one positive, and students who read quickly reverse one of the negatives and answer wrongly. Following each statement to the person it belongs to is the skill this item builds, and it is the same careful tracking that longer texts about preferences require.
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Respuesta correcta: A)Ana likes mango.
A)Ana likes mango.The text says Ana likes mango directly, while both other statements are dislikes that do not change hers.
B)Nobody likes mango.Ana says she likes mango, so at least one person does, and the question is not settled by Luis's dislike.
C)Luis likes mango.The text says Luis doesn't like mango, which is the opposite of what this option claims.
D)Ana and Luis like mango.Luis is explicitly given as not liking mango, so the two do not share the preference.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "Ana likes mango". The text contains two negatives and one positive, and students who read quickly reverse one of the negatives and answer wrongly. Following each statement to the person it belongs to is the skill this item builds, and it is the same careful tracking that longer texts about preferences require.
Pregunta 4
Pregunta 4 · D4Bloom: Apply
Using the gerund after the verb to like.
Which sentence correctly says that a student likes reading?
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Respuesta correcta: C)She likes reading books.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "She likes reading books". Each distractor introduces exactly one different error, in the verb form, in the to form or in the agreement, which makes them useful rather than random. A student who can say which single thing is wrong with each version is far better placed to check their own sentences than one who only recognises the correct answer.
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Respuesta correcta: C)She likes reading books.
A)She likes to reads books.There is an -s on the verb after to, and a to form here would also need the article that this sentence lacks.
B)She likes read books.The bare infinitive read is not used after likes, which takes the -ing form in this pattern.
C)She likes reading books.After likes the gerund reading names the activity, and the object books follows the gerund phrase normally.
D)She like reading books.The subject is third person singular, so the verb has to be likes rather than the base form like.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "She likes reading books". Each distractor introduces exactly one different error, in the verb form, in the to form or in the agreement, which makes them useful rather than random. A student who can say which single thing is wrong with each version is far better placed to check their own sentences than one who only recognises the correct answer.
Pregunta 5
Pregunta 5 · D4Bloom: Apply
Asking a friend about a preference politely.
You want to know whether your friend likes spicy food. Which question do you ask?
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Respuesta correcta: A)Do you like spicy food?
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "Do you like spicy food?". Asking a friend about a preference is a genuine social task, and the question form has to be right in three places at once, the auxiliary, the subject and the verb form. Getting it wrong is immediately noticeable to the listener, which makes it worth producing correctly rather than only understanding it when read.
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Respuesta correcta: A)Do you like spicy food?
A)Do you like spicy food?Do you like is the standard question for asking about a preference, and the subject you takes the auxiliary do.
B)Do you likes spicy food?After the auxiliary do the main verb keeps its base form like, so the -s does not belong here.
C)Are you like spicy food?Are goes with the verb to be, and it cannot be used to ask about a preference expressed with the verb to like.
D)Do you like to spicy food?An infinitive after like cannot stand directly before a noun, so the phrase would be ungrammatical as written.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "Do you like spicy food?". Asking a friend about a preference is a genuine social task, and the question form has to be right in three places at once, the auxiliary, the subject and the verb form. Getting it wrong is immediately noticeable to the listener, which makes it worth producing correctly rather than only understanding it when read.
Pregunta 6
Pregunta 6 · D4Bloom: Apply
Choosing the word that expresses a dislike rather than a preference.
Which word says that a person does not like something?
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Respuesta correcta: D)hate
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "hate". A small set of verbs carries the whole range of liking and disliking in English, and students who only know like and not like cannot express strength of feeling. Learning love, like, do not like and hate as a scale gives them the vocabulary to answer questions about preferences with the right degree of feeling rather than a flat yes or no.
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Respuesta correcta: D)hate
A)enjoyEnjoy is a positive word for taking pleasure in something, so it also names the opposite meaning.
B)loveLove is the strongest positive preference, so it names the opposite of a dislike.
C)preferPrefer names a choice between two options, and it does not simply mean disliking something.
D)hateTo hate is the strongest English word for disliking something, stronger than dislike and much stronger than not like.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "hate". A small set of verbs carries the whole range of liking and disliking in English, and students who only know like and not like cannot express strength of feeling. Learning love, like, do not like and hate as a scale gives them the vocabulary to answer questions about preferences with the right degree of feeling rather than a flat yes or no.
Pregunta 7
Pregunta 7 · D4Bloom: Apply
Using love with a noun rather than a gerund.
Which sentence correctly says that a student loves pizza?
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Respuesta correcta: B)She loves pizza.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "She loves pizza". A noun can follow the verb to love directly, whereas a verb activity normally takes the gerund, and students tend to apply one rule to both. Fixing the pattern for each of the two verbs keeps the choice deliberate, and it is a distinction that shows up in every longer piece of student writing.
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Respuesta correcta: B)She loves pizza.
A)She loves the pizza.The article makes a general preference sound like a particular one, which is not what the sentence intends.
B)She loves pizza.A noun can follow the verb to love directly, so pizza needs no gerund form and no article in this general statement.
C)She love pizza.The subject is third person singular, so the verb has to be loves rather than the base form love.
D)She loving pizza.The -ing form needs an auxiliary such as loves to form a verb, so it cannot stand alone as the main verb.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "She loves pizza". A noun can follow the verb to love directly, whereas a verb activity normally takes the gerund, and students tend to apply one rule to both. Fixing the pattern for each of the two verbs keeps the choice deliberate, and it is a distinction that shows up in every longer piece of student writing.
Pregunta 8
Pregunta 8 · D4Bloom: Analyze
Comparing the preferences of two students in a short text.
Read: "Pedro likes football but he doesn't like basketball. Sara likes both." What can you say about Sara?
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Respuesta correcta: A)She likes both football and basketball.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "She likes both football and basketball". The word both refers back to two nouns mentioned in the previous sentence, and resolving a reference like that is a genuine reading skill rather than a vocabulary question. Students who miss it often answer from memory of the first sentence, which is why the item puts the pronoun in a different sentence from the things it refers to.
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Respuesta correcta: A)She likes both football and basketball.
A)She likes both football and basketball.The text states that Sara likes both, and both refers to the two sports named just before.
B)She likes only football.The text says she likes both sports, so she is not limited to football.
C)She likes neither sport.Likes both is the opposite of liking neither, so this directly contradicts the text.
D)She likes basketball only.The text includes football in what she likes, so the exclusive claim is not supported.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "She likes both football and basketball". The word both refers back to two nouns mentioned in the previous sentence, and resolving a reference like that is a genuine reading skill rather than a vocabulary question. Students who miss it often answer from memory of the first sentence, which is why the item puts the pronoun in a different sentence from the things it refers to.
Pregunta 9
Pregunta 9 · D4Bloom: Analyze
Finding the error in a sentence about a preference.
A student writes: "My brother don't like horror films." What is the problem?
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Respuesta correcta: D)The auxiliary should be does rather than do.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "The auxiliary should be does rather than do". The sentence has exactly one fault, and the three distractors each propose a different problem that is not there. This is the error a student makes most often in written work, so isolating it in a sentence where the noun, the main verb and the meaning are all correct is the most direct way to eliminate it.
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Respuesta correcta: D)The auxiliary should be does rather than do.
A)Horror films is the wrong kind of noun.Films is a correct plural noun here, and the noun is not what makes the sentence wrong.
B)A dislike needs the verb to hate.Not liking is a perfectly ordinary way to express a dislike, and the verb to like is correct here.
C)The verb should be likes with the don't.After the auxiliary do the main verb keeps the base form, so the problem is the auxiliary rather than the main verb.
D)The auxiliary should be does rather than do.The subject my brother is third person singular, so the negative auxiliary has to be doesn't rather than don't.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "The auxiliary should be does rather than do". The sentence has exactly one fault, and the three distractors each propose a different problem that is not there. This is the error a student makes most often in written work, so isolating it in a sentence where the noun, the main verb and the meaning are all correct is the most direct way to eliminate it.
Pregunta 10
Pregunta 10 · D4Bloom: Evaluate
Choosing the best way to state a strong preference to a class.
You are asked what food you like best. Which answer is the most natural?
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Respuesta correcta: C)I love empanadas, especially the ones from my grandmother's kitchen.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "I love empanadas, especially the ones from my grandmother's kitchen". A good answer to what do you like best states a preference with the right strength and then supports it, and the three distractors each fail to say anything about what the speaker likes. Choosing a specific, supportable answer over a vague one is the judgement the exam rewards, and it is also simply a more useful way to talk to a class.
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Respuesta correcta: C)I love empanadas, especially the ones from my grandmother's kitchen.
A)I like like everything.The repeated like is ungrammatical, and claiming to like everything names no preference either.
B)Food is food.This is a general remark that expresses no preference at all, so it does not answer the question.
C)I love empanadas, especially the ones from my grandmother's kitchen.This gives a clear preference, says the verb love and adds a specific detail that makes the answer personal.
D)I am eating empanadas now.The present continuous reports what is happening at this moment rather than stating a lasting preference.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "I love empanadas, especially the ones from my grandmother's kitchen". A good answer to what do you like best states a preference with the right strength and then supports it, and the three distractors each fail to say anything about what the speaker likes. Choosing a specific, supportable answer over a vague one is the judgement the exam rewards, and it is also simply a more useful way to talk to a class.
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