You try teaching five-year-olds
Yesterday, it ... Mrs Ray's first day at school with her class of
five-year-olds!
Mrs RAY: Now, you ... Liz, ... you?
LIZ1: Yes, I...Liz.
LIZ2: I'm Liz, too, ... I?
Mrs RAY: Yes. You ... Liz, too. You ... another Liz.
LIZ 2: I... not another Liz. I ... Liz.
Mrs RAY: Of course. Well, Liz, ... a good girl and fetch some
chalk from the cupboard.
BOY: ... careful! Don't drop it!
Mrs RAY: What ... your name?
BOY: I... Don.
Mrs RAY: Don ... a nice name. What do you want to ... when
you grow up, Don?
DON: A racing driver. Brrrm, brrrm, brrrm...!
Mrs RAY: ... yourself again! (Brrrm! Brrrm!) Stop it, Don, or I'll tickle you. ... you ticklish?
DON: No. I... Scottish!
3. (Work with a partner.) Ask each other the following questions, then speak about yourselves.
1) What's your full name?
2) Are you under age? Are you in your mid or late teens? When exactly were you born?
3) Where are you from?
4) What are your parents' names? What is your mother's
maiden name?
5) Are your parents the same age? How old were your parents when they got married? How long have they been together?
6) What sort of people are your parents? Are they employed at present? What do they do for a living?
7) Are you good friends in the family? Are you considerate to your relatives?
8) Are you a University student? What year are you in? What is your major?
9) What were you interested in when you were a kid? Were you often taken to the theatre / circus / zoo? Were you fond of travelling with your mom and dad? Were
you often read to? Were you taught how to read and write at an early age? Were you a quick learner?
10) What's your hobby now? Are you keen on computer games / reading / pop music? What are you good at?
11) Are you a theatre / movie person?
12) What are your goals for right now / What are your ambitious for later in life? Are you working up to your potential at university and in your other activities?
4. Remember the following expressions with the verb to beand use them in the sentences.
To be about, to be present (absent), to be back, to be out, to be away, to be good at, to be ready for, to be up, to be well (ill), to be busy, to be married (engaged, widowed), to be fond of, to be interested in, to be sorry (for smb., about smth.), to be acquainted, to be late, to be in (on) time, to be right, to be wrong, to be mistaken, to be at home, to be hungry, to be thirsty, to be on pension, to be tired, to be afraid of, to be over, to be ... years old, to be sure, to be worth doing smth.
5. (commands, requests, and prohibitions with be + infinitive)
Miss Jones, a teacher, can't be present for the first two periods and has given her instructions (commands, etc) for the class to her colleague, Mr Green. Mr Green is now telling the class what Miss Jones wants them to do in her absence.
Model: 1) Miss Jones wants me to give you her instructions.
I'm to give you her instructions.
2) She wants Susan to collect the dinner money. Susan is to collect the dinner money.
a) She wants me to check the attendance register.
b) She wants all the class to read chapter 1.
c) She wants you to do exercises 1 to 4 inclusive.
d) She wants Tom Dobson to be responsible for discipline and classroom tidiness.
e) She doesn't want you to waste time chattering.
f) She wants Ben to go to the headmaster during the break.
g) She doesn't want you to eat in class.
h) She wants Pat to collect the homework books.
i) She wants Richard and Jimmy to fetch the VCR.
6. Translate the following sentences into English.
1. Я сожалею, но я вчера был очень занят.
2. Лекция начнётся в 15.00, вы должны быть там.
3. Из какой вы страны?
- Из Великобритании.
4. Вы женаты?
- Нет, я холост.
5. Чем вы интересуетесь?
- Моё хобби - коллекционирование марок.
6. Что ты сейчас делаешь?
- Ничего особенного, смотрю телевизор.
7. Вчера мне подарили очень интересную книгу.
8. Он обычно вежлив, но сейчас ведёт себя довольно грубо.
9. На нашей улице строится высотный дом.
There + be
| Positive | Question | Negative |
| There is / there’s There are | Is there . . . ? Are there ... ? | There is not / isn't There are not / aren't |
Use: You use there as the impersonal subject to show that
1. something or somebody is / are, was / were or will be in a place.
There is a paper on the desk.
2. something or somebody exists in a general sense.
There will be a students' party tomorrow.
In Russian the sentences like this normally start with an adverbial modifier of place or time.
На столе - газета.
Завтра состоится студенческий вечер.
NOTE: a) There is / are, etc. stands before the subject, which usually contains a determiner, like a /an, some /any, much / many, a lot of / lots of etc. or no +one, body, thing, where.
There will be nowhere for us to go.
b) When the noun group after the verb is plural, you use a plural verb. When the noun group is singular or uncountable, you use a singular verb.
There were two people in the room. There is a cushion on the sofa.
c) In sentences with the introductory there the predicate is usually the verb to be, occasionally some other verbs are found, such as modal verbs, to seem, to appear, followed by be or have been and also to live, to come, to occur etc.
There could be a problem.
There seems to be a lot of people on campus.
Once upon a time, in a small country town there lived a little man.
d) We use there in tag - questions.