IN PRESENT. PAST AND FUTURE SIMPLE
| to be in Present Simple | |||
| Singular | Plural | ||
| I | am | We | are |
| You | are | You | are |
| He, she, it | is | They | are |
| to be in Past Simple | |||
| I | was | We | were |
| You | were | You | were |
| He, she, it | was | They | were |
| to be in Future Simple | |||
| I | shall be | We | shall be |
| You | will be | You | will be |
| He, she, it | will be | They | will be |
Ex.1 Fill in the blanks with necessary forms of the verb to be in Present Simple.
1. The child ... asleep. 2. Ann ... at home and her parents ... at the cinema. 3. I ... cold. Can you shut the window, please? 4. These shelves ... very heavy. 5. This house ... very expensive. 6. My brothers ... very clever. 7. The sky ... blue today.
8. How much ... these stamps? 9. Where ... you from? 10. Mr. Wren's grandson ... six years old. 11. Your spectacles ... in the bag. 12. I ... not interested in hockey, I ... interested in football. 13. What colour... his hair? 14. Why ... you always late?
Ex. 2 Write positive and negative sentences. Use am / am not, is/isn't, are/aren't
1. Brussels ... the capital of Belgium. 2. I ... interested in volleyball. 3. Russia ... a very big country. 4. I ... afraid of dogs. 5. Motor-racing ... a dangerous sport 6. Squirrels ... big animals. 7. Diamonds ... cheap. 8. My hands ... dirty. 9. My sister ... an architect. 10. I ... a secretary. 11. My brother and I ... good tennis players. 12. I ... tired. 13. He ... busy now. He is having a rest 14. We ... first-year students.
Ex. 3 Fill In the blanks with the forms of the verb to be in Present Simple.
1. What colour ... your house? 2. Where ... my key? 3. Where ... my trousers? 4. How old ... your grandmother? 5. What colour ... her eyes? 6. How much ... those shoes? - They cost 5 thousand rubles. 7. Who ... your favourite actor? 8. Why ... you so tired? 9. Why ... he always late? 10. Who absent today? 11. Where ... Jess from? 12. ... your mother a teacher or a doctor? 13. How old ... you? 14. ... you a student?
Ex. 4 Put in the necessary form of the verb to be.
1. Last year their son ... seventeen, so he ... eighteen now. 2. We must go now, it ... very late. 3. Where ... you at 10 o'clock last Sunday morning? 4. This time next year I ... in England. 5. Why ... you so tired yesterday? 6. He ... not ... at the institute tomorrow. 7. Where ... the dogs? - I don't know. They ... in the garden ten minutes ago. 8. Today the weather ... nice, but yesterday it ... cold. 9. I ... cold. Can I have something hot to drink? 10. Don't buy those shoes. They ... too expensive. 11. The shops ... not open yesterday, because it ... a public holiday. 12. ... the museum ... open tomorrow? 13. ... you interested in foreign languages?
| Impersonal and Indefinite Personal Sentences |
| have formal subject it, which is not translated. Such sentences often describe weather conditions, denote time and distance. |
| It is cold today. - Сегодня холодно. Is it cold today? - It isn't cold today. It is five p.m. now.- Сейчас 5 часов вечера It was sunny yesterday. — Вчера было солнечно. Wasn't it interesting? - Разве не было интересно? It is (high) time to go to bed. - Пора ложиться спать. |
Ex. 5 Translate the sentences from English into Russian.
1. It is warm in our classroom. 2. It often snows in Moscow in spring. 3. It is cold in December in all parts of the world. 4. It is winter now. 5. It is interesting to read detective stories. 6. It was hot last summer. 7. It is not cold here. 8. It will be difficult for me to learn French. 9. It is easy to read German. 10. It was difficult to
*But to think (думать, размышлять): I'm thinking of you now.
to have a smoke, to have dinner, to have a bath, etc.: He is having a bath at the moment.
Ex. 1 Use the Present Continuous Tense or the Present Simple Tense.
1. They (to work) in the laboratory now. 2. Don't make noise! The child (to sleep). 3. Don't go out! It (to ran) heavily. 4. What you (to think) about? 5. My Granny is in the kitchen. She (to make) a cake. 6. Listen! Somebody (to cry). 7. A good friend (to know) when you are upset about something. 8. Why you (to sit) here? Is anything wrong? 9. Father still (to work) in the garden. 10. I (to look for) my keys. I can't open the door. 11. She (to write) a letter at the moment. 12. Jim can't come to the phone right now, he (to have) a bath. 13. Run downstairs! Your mother (to wait) for you. 14. Dad (to belong) to the local astronomy group now. 15. Where is Nick? - He (to do) his homework. 16. What you (to think) of London?