Exercises: Verb to be Present Tense

1. Answer these questions about you. a. b. c. d. e. What is your name? Are you from the United States? Where are you from? Are you a student? Is your teacher from England?

2. Complete these sentences about Kaka, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. i. Kaka _________ a soccer player. He _________ an attacking midfielder. His full name _________ Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite. He _________ 27 years old. He _________ from Brasilia, Brazil. He _________ 6.1 feet tall (=1.86m). Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt _________ both American. They _________ actors. They _________ married and they have six children! In your opinion, _________ they a perfect couple?

3. Choose some of these adjectives to write three sentences about yourself. happy beautiful intelligent stubborn short tall stressed calm tired good-looking old young single married hungry a. I b. I c. I 4. Complete this joke with verb to be. Joan and her neighbor _________ talking about their daughters, Joan says, My daughter _________ at the university. She _________ very intelligent. Every time we get a letter from her we have to go to the dictionary. Her neighbor says, You _________ lucky. Every time we hear from our daughter we have to go to the bank.

5. Write the corresponding subject pronoun and the verb to be of the underlined words. Example: Madonna is a famous singer. Madonna she is. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) Angola is in Africa. Will Smith is my favorite actor. These books are very good. Angelina and Brad are married. This robot is smart. Write the correct form of verb to be in these questions. What _______ your name? What _______ this? Where ______ you from? How _______he? How _______ they?

7. Correct the sentences. 1) Sheila and George is very happy. 2) This is your book? 3) My friends is from Chile. 4) Iam fine. 5) Richard are here. 6) The books is on the table. 7) Your mothers on the telephone. 8) Im sorry. 9) My bag it is red. 10) They the books are here. 8. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) Complete these sentences with the correct form of the verb to be. Yuri ________ from Russia. The students ________ in class. The coffee break _________ at 10 a.m. The hotel _________ on Madison Avenue. Maria and Angelina _______ very beautiful. Thomas ________ a good student. We ________ friends. They _______ my teachers.

9. Choose the correct form of the VERB TO BE in Present Tense in the sentences below: 1. These _________ my mother and father. a) are b) is 2. Nancy and Lucy _________ sisters. a) are b) is 3. ________ he from Brazil, too? a) Aren't b) Isn't 4. This book ________ very difficult. a) aren't b) isn't 5. My country ________ rich. a) isnt b) arent 6. I ________ 40 years old. a) is b) am 7. These ________ their bags. a) are b) am 8. She ________ a really good actress! a) are b) is 9. That ________ a really good book! a) are b) is 10. These things ________ not mine. a) is b) are

10. Choose the correct Tag Question. 1. You're coming to the party, ___? a. aren't you b. isn't you c. shouldn't you 2. It wasn't very difficult, ___? a. wasn't it b. isn't it c. was it 3. Tom is getting something for Sue, ___? a. wasn't he b. isn't he c. was he 4. Mrs. Smith is sick, ___? a. isn't she b. is she c. wasn't she 5. The dishes are dirty, ___? a. weren't they b. isn't they c. aren't they