Present of TO BE

Ex. 3. Complete and practise these dialogues.

1. Robert : How do you do? My name ______ Robert Brown.
Jack : How do you do? My name ______ Jack Richardson. Where ______ you from, Mr. Brown?
Robert : I ______ American. I ______ from Appleton, Wisconsin.
Jack : Oh. That ______ very interesting.

2. Frank : Hello. My name ______ Frank. What ______ your name?

John : My name ______ John. How ______ you?
Frank : I ______ fine, thanks. ______ you a student here?
John : No, I ______ not. I ______ an instructor.
Frank : Oh. Pleased to meet you, Sir.

3. Peter : Hello, Mike

Michael : Hello, Peter. Who______ that girl?
Peter : She ______ Mary. She ______ a new student.
Michael : Where ______ she from?
Peter : She ______ from Australia.
Michael : ______ she single?
Peter : No, she ______ ______. She ______ married.
Michael : Oh. Thats bad news.
PAST OF TO BE
Ex. 1. Complete these sentences with the proper form of the verb TO BE, present or past:
1. John ______ in New York the day before yesterday but he ______ in Chicago today.
2. They ______ free today, but they ______ at work yesterday.
3. Today ______ Monday. Yesterday ______ Sunday.
4. Where ______ the Johnsons last weekend? Where ______ they today?
5. The elevator ______ out of order last night, but it ______ working well now.
6. John ______nt in the office at ten this morning because he ______ at a meeting.
7. Bob ______ very sick yesterday, but he ______ much better today.
Ex. 2. Change the following sentences into a) Negative b) interrogative
1. The secretary was busy at midday.
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2. They were good friends at school.

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3. The weather was fine that day.
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4. The men were tired after the long walk.
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5. Mary was late for the train this morning.
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6. Henry was at the movie at 7 P.M.
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FUTURE OF TO BE
Ex. 1. Complete the sentences as in the example:
John is not at home today, but he will be at home tomorrow.
1. Tom and Jack arent in the same class this semester, but they _________________________
_____________next semester.
2. John is absent today, but he ______________________________________________ (not) the day
after tomorrow.
3. It is not very cold now, but it ___________________________________________________
_________this evening.
4. We are busy right now, but we ________________________________________ ___________
(not) after lunch.
5. I am not in my office at the moment, but I _________________________________________ in
ten minutes.
6. Mr.Johnson was not at the meeting last week. _______________________________
___________next Monday?
7. The weather was not very nice last month, but it ___________________________________
_______next month.

Ex. 5. Translate the following sentences into English:

1. Ellos estarn muy ocupados maana por la maana. ________________________________

2. Esos nios no son muy buenos alumnos. _________________________________________

3. Dnde estn tus amigos ahora? ___________________________________________
4. Quin estuvo aqu esta maana? ___________________________________________
5. Nosotros no estuvimos aqu la semana pasada. ____________________________________
6. Ella ser una excelente secretaria. ___________________________________________
7. Ellos fueron buenos amigos en el colegio _________________________________________
8. Los informes no estaban listos todava. ___________________________________________
9. Mr Jackson estuvo en la oficina todo el da. _______________________________________
10. Cundo estn ellos libres todo el da? __________________________________________
11. Quin era ese hombre? ___________________________________________
12. Este no es un libro muy interesante. ___________________________________________
13. Alguien estuvo aqu ayer en la tarde. ___________________________________________
14. Cundo estars en esa ciudad otra vez? ________________________________________

THERE IS/ARE
Ex. 1. Complete the sentences using THERE IS or THERE ARE:
1. _______________________ some books on the shelf.
2. _______________________ very little money left in the box.
3. _______________________ only one student in the lab now.
4. _______________________ very few people at the conference.
5. _______________________ no more milk in the jug.
6. _______________________ no more cassettes in the box.
7. _______________________ no time left.
8. _______________________ several helicopters in the airfield.
9. _______________________ some letters for you on the desk.
10. _______________________ a lot of mistakes in your composition.

Ex. 2. Change the following statements into the negative form.

1. Theres a lot of fruit in the basket. ______________________________________________

2. There are a lot of students absent. ______________________________________________

3. Theres some more meat in the fridge. ___________________________________________
4. There are some extra chairs in the room. _________________________________________
5. Theres a telephone in the room. _______________________________________________
6. There are a lot of people in the room. ____________________________________________
7. There are some more clean glasses. ______________________________________________
8. There are 30 days in February. _________________________________________________
9. Theres some more money in my pocket. _________________________________________
10. Theres central heating in the room. ___________________________________________

Ex. 4. Complete the following questions and answers. Use HOW MUCH......IS THERE? Or HOW
MANY.......... ARE THERE? in the questions, and THERES or THERE ARE in the Answers .
Ej.: (How many) dictionaries (are there)? (There are) 8, sir.
1. ___________________ money ______________?

________________ very little.

2. ___________________ doors ________________in the lab? ________________ just one.

3. _________________ milk _________________in the jug? ________________ no milk in it.
4. ___________________ video tapes ___________?

________________ very few.

5. _______________ work _________________today? ________________ a lot of work.

6. ___________________ people _______________in the room?. ________________ a lot.
7. _________________ butter ________________in the dish? ________________ just a little.
8. ___________________ secretaries ____________here?

________________ two.

9. _________________ women ______________in that group? ________________ five or six.

10. _________________ men _________________in the crew? ________________ four men.

THERE WAS/WERE
Ex. 2. Answer these questions, using the information given in parenthesis:
1. How many students were there in this class last year? (about 20)
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2. Were there many people at the meeting last Monday? (No, not more than 30)
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3. How much free time was there during the Basic Training Period? (very little, of course)
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4. Was there enough bread for all the people? (yes, more than enough)
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5. How many students were there in the laboratory? ( not any)
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6. How many days were there in February that year? (29, it was a leap year)
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7. Were there many cars in the street at that time? ( Yes, lots of cars)
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THERE WILL BE:
Ex.1. Change into the future tense.
1. There is a lot of free time in the evening. _________________________________________
2. There are some women at the meeting. __________________________________________
3. There isnt any food left in the fridge. ___________________________________________
4. How many people are there at the reception? ____________________________________
5. How much money is there in the box? ___________________________________________
6. Is there any more work? ___________________________________________________
7. Are there more than ten students in your class? ___________________________________

Ex. 5. Translate the following sentences into English

1. Habr otra reunin general el prximo viernes. ___________________________________
2. Haba solamente dos hoteles en ese pueblo. ______________________________________
3. Hay un restaurant cerca de aqu? ______________________________________________
4. Cunto dinero hay en la billetera? ______________________________________________
5. No haba mucha gente en el edificio a esa hora. ___________________________________
6. No habr otro concierto hasta la prxima semana. __________________________________
7. No hay tiempo para conversar. ______________________________________________
8. Haba muy poco tiempo libre durante la maana. __________________________________
9. Cunto s autos haba en el estacionamiento esa tarde? _____________________________
10. Haba muy pocos nios en la calle ese da. ________________________________________
11. No habr muchos partidos de ftbol este fin de semana. ___________________________
12. Hay mucho ruido en esta sala ahora.. __________________________________________

NUMBERS
Ex. 1 Read and then write these numbers
a) 12

e) 33

i) 846

m) 256,875

b) 56

f) 28

j) 1,285

n) 5,687,328

c) 79

g) 148

k) 6,394

d) 94

h) 597

l) 24,973

a) _____________________________________________
b) ________________________________________________
c) _____________________________________________
d) ________________________________________________
e) _____________________________________________
f) ________________________________________________
g)____________________________________________________________________________
h) ___________________________________________________________________________
i) ____________________________________________________________________________
j) ____________________________________________________________________________
k) ___________________________________________________________________________
l) ____________________________________________________________________________
m) __________________________________________________________________________
n) ___________________________________________________________________________

ARTICLES
Exe. 1. Use the indefinite articles a or an
1. ________ pencil

17. ________ car

2. ________ apple

18. ________ used car

3. ________ egg

19. ________ modern car

4. ________ envelope

20. ________ young woman

5. ________ umbrella

21. ________ old woman

6. ________ hour

22. ________ one-dollar bill

7. ________ honor

23. ________ five-dollar bill

8. ________ house

24. ________ hotel

9. ________ banana

25. ________ instrument

10. ________ big banana

26. ______ musical instrument

11. ________ exercise

27. ________ answer

12. ________ easy exercise

28. ________ question

13. ________ difficult exercise

29. _____ impertinent question

14. ________ university

30. ________ usual question

15. ________ old university

31. ________ unusual question

16. ________ new university

32. ________ hard lesson

Ex. 2. Change the following sentences into the plural.

1. That is a picture ___________________________________________________
2. This is a car. ___________________________________________________
3. Is this an envelope? ___________________________________________________
4. That man isnt a teacher. ___________________________________________________
5. Ive got a friend in San Francisco. _______________________________________________
6. Theyve got a horse on the farm. _______________________________________________
7. Peters got a new pen. ___________________________________________________
8. This boy isnt a new student. ___________________________________________________
9. This is an interesting novel. ___________________________________________________
10. Is that woman a nurse? ___________________________________________________
11. Is that man an engineer? ___________________________________________________
12. Theres a yellow flower in the garden. ___________________________________________
13. Is that an apple tree or a pear tree? ____________________________________________
14. I havent got a cigarette. ___________________________________________________

TIMES
Ex. 2. Write down the times and read:
1. 09:00 Its __________________________________________________________________
2. 08:50 ______________________________________________________________________
3. 03:30 ______________________________________________________________________
4. 11:45 ______________________________________________________________________
5. 01:15 ______________________________________________________________________
6. 09:05 ______________________________________________________________________

7. 10:14 ___________________________________________________________________________
8. 24:00 ___________________________________________________________________________
9. 02:57 ___________________________________________________________________________
10. 08:00 a.m. ______________________________________________________________________
11. 04:00 p.m. ______________________________________________________________________
12. 11:00 p.m. ______________________________________________________________________
13. 03:25 __________________________________________________________________________
14. 12:00 __________________________________________________________________________
15. 03:20 __________________________________________________________________________
16. 10:05 __________________________________________________________________________
17. 01:45 __________________________________________________________________________
18. 11:30 __________________________________________________________________________
19. 05:25 __________________________________________________________________________
20. 08:15 __________________________________________________________________________
21. 04:35 __________________________________________________________________________
22. 01:38 __________________________________________________________________________
23. 10:18 __________________________________________________________________________
24. 09:00 __________________________________________________________________________
PRESENT CONTINUOUS
Ex. 3. Change into a) negative and b) interrogative
1. The children are watching TV
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2. Johns having breakfast now.
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3. Bills answering the phone.
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4. Im helping John with the work
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5. The girls washing the dishes.

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Ex. 5. Complete the dialogs using the verbs provided in the Present Continuous tense. Study them
and practise them with a friend:
1. Hans : Hello, Bob! Where ______ you ____________? ( go)
Bob : To the post office.
Hans : I ___________ (go) there, too. Why ______nt you ____________ (drive) your car?
Bob : Its in the garage. They ____________ ( fix) the brakes.

2. Jane : Wheres Billy?

Peter : Hes in his room.
Jane : What ______ he ___________?(do) I dont think he ____________(sleep).
Peter : No, he isnt. He ____________ (study) for a test.
Jane : He ______ always ____________ ! (study). Thats why he ___________ (do) so well at school
this year
Peter : Well, he ____________ (plan) to study engineering, you know..

3. Robert : Where are the children?

Mary : Billy ____________ (watch) TV in the living-room. And Bettys in the kitchen. I think
she ____________ (cook) dinner. And Jims in his room. He ____________ (sleep), of course!
Robert : Well, lets go for a walk,then.
Mary : Great! Lets do that.

THE DATE
Ex. 1. Write the following dates, as in the examples:
1. 12.09.1963 The twelfth of September, nineteen sixty-three
2. 05.05.1938 _____________________________________________________________________
3. 02.11.1906 ______________________________________________________________________
4. 18.07.1900 ______________________________________________________________________
5. 10.08.2000 ______________________________________________________________________

6. 01.01.2001 ______________________________________________________________________
7. 18.09.1810 _____________________________________________________________________
8. 05.12.1978 ______________________________________________________________________
9. 12.03.1893 ______________________________________________________________________
10. 04.30.1999 April the thirtieth, nineteen ninety-nine
11. 08.27.1987 _____________________________________________________________________
12. 02.28.1956 _____________________________________________________________________
13. 10.12.1492 _____________________________________________________________________
14. 07.02.1956 _____________________________________________________________________

PRESENT SIMPLE
Ex. 4. Change the following sentences into a) negative, b) interrogative, and c) Wh-questions:
1. Mary likes to drink coffee with milk. _________________________________________________
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2. They live near here. _________________________________________________
_______________________________________________?
_______________________________________________?
3. Peter watches TV every night. _________________________________________________
_______________________________________________?
_______________________________________________?
4. The bus leaves at 7:45 _________________________________________________
_______________________________________________?
_______________________________________________?
5. That man speaks German. _________________________________________________
_______________________________________________?
_______________________________________________?

Ex. 8. Put the verb into the correct form.

1. Janet _______________________________tea very often. .(not / drink)
2. What time _________________________________in Britain? (the banks / close)
3. A:Where __________________________________from? (Martin / come) B: Hes Scottish.

4. A: What __________________________________? (you / do) B:Im an electrical engineer.

5. It __________________________me an hour to get to work. (take) How long
__________________you? (it / take)
6. I ___________________________the piano (play) but I ______________________ it very well
(not / play).
7. I dont understand this sentence. What _____________________________________(this word /
mean)?

Ex. 9. Use one of the following verbs to complete these sentences. Sometimes you need the
negative:
believe

eat

go

flow

make

rise

grow

tell

translate

1. The earth _____________________________________ round the sun.

2. Rice __________________________________ in Britain.
3. The sun _____________________________________ in the east.
4. Bees __________________________________ honey.
5. Vegetarians _______________________________________ meat.
6. An atheist ____________________________________ in God.
7. An interpreter ______________________________________ from one language into another.
8. A liar is someone who ____________________________________ the truth.
9. The River Amazon _____________________________ into the Atlantic Ocean.

Ex. 10. (Review) Use the Present Continuous or the Simple Present, of the verb given in
parentheses:
1. My brother Jim __________________________in Boston at present. (work)
2. The secretary generally _________________________the office at 7:30 every evening. (leave)
3. Mr. Scott ____________________________the news on TV at the moment. (watch)
4. We seldom _______________________to the coast in the winter. (go)
5. Look! John __________________________over there. (come)
6. Mary __________________________to visit us once or twice a month. (come)
7. For the time being, Tom _____________________________as a mechanic. (work)
8. Where ________________they _____________________at present? (live)
9. Where ________________they usually _________________in the summer? (go)

10. What _________________the boy ___________________at the moment? (do)

11. Look! It __________________________to rain! Lets go inside. (begin)
12. The bar _______________________at 6:45 and _____________________at 10:30 every day.
(open / close)
13. We ________not ___________________anything special right now. We _______just
____________TV. (do / watch)
14. Hello, Bob! What _____________you _______________there now? (do)
15. You must always speak to him in English. He ______________not ________________Spanish.
(understand)
16. Listen! Somebody _______________________the piano upstairs. Who can it be? (play)
17. What ___________you ______________________doing when you are at home? (like)
18. Why ____________you ______________________English now? Are you planning to go to the
USA? (study)
19. Why ____________you always ____________________home so late every night? (Get)
20. Look at that man. He ___________________________a green uniform. He must be a police
officer. (wear)