English Exercises

1. Choose the correct form of the verb To Be in the present simple:

1. These _________ my mother and father.

a) are

b) is

a) are

b) is

a) Aren't

b) Isn't

a) aren't

b) isn't

a) isnt

b) arent

2. Nancy and Lucy _________ sisters.

3. ________ he from Brazil, too?
4. This book ________ very difficult.
5. My country ________ rich.
6. I ________ 40 years old.

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a) is b) am

7. These ________ their bags.

a) are

b) am

a) are

b) is

a) are

b) is

8. She ________ a really good actress!

9. That ________ a really good book!
10. These things ________ not mine.
a) is b) are
2. Write the corresponding subject pronoun and the verb To Be of the
underlined words.

1. Angola is in Africa. __________ in Africa.

2. Will Smith is my favorite actor. __________ my favorite actor.

3. These books are very good. __________ very good.

4. Angelina and Brad are married. __________ married.

5. This robot is smart. __________smart.

3. Write the correct form of verb To Be in these questions.

1. What _______ your name?

2. What _______ this?

3. Where ______ you from?

4. How _______he?

5. How _______ they?

4. Answer these questions about you.

1. What is your name?

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2. Are you from the United States?

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3. Where are you from?

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4. Are you a student?

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5. How old are you?

__________________________________________________.
5. Correct the sentences.

1. Sheila and George is very happy.

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2. This is your book?

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3. My friends is from Chile.

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4. Iam fine. __________________________________________________.
5. Richard are here.

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6. The books is on the table.

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7. Your mothers on the telephone.

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8. Im sorry. __________________________________________________.
9. My bag it is red.

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10. They the books are here.

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6. Complete these sentences with the correct form of the verb To Be.

1. Yuri ________ from Russia.

2. The students ________ in class.

3. The coffee break _________ at 10 a.m.

4. The hotel _________ on Madison Avenue.

5. Maria and Angelina _______ very beautiful.

6. Thomas ________ a good student.
7. We ________ friends.

8. They _______ my teachers.

7. Complete these sentences about animals with the correct form of verb To
Be.

1. Horses __________ fast.

2. Cats __________ elegant.

3. My dog __________ best friend.
4. That lion __________ hungry.
5. Mice __________ dirty.

6. I am afraid of oxen, but they __________ dangerous.

7. Giraffes __________ tall.

8. __________ that monkey playing?

9. __________ that chimpanzee eating something? No, it__________. It

__________ drinking.

10. People say hippos __________ ugly, but I think they are beautiful.
8. Complete these sentences about Kaka, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.

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?
9. Choose some of these adjectives to write three sentences about yourself.

happy beautiful intelligent stubborn short

tall stressed calm

1. I

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2. I

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3. I
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_________________.

10. 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.

11. Pronouns or verb To Be? Complete the sentences with I, you, he, she, it,
we, you, they and am, are or is.

1. Hello, my name __________ Laura. I __________ thirteen years old.

2. This is Javier. __________ is fourteen years old.

3. Laura and John __________ students. __________ are friends.

4. This is my mother. Her name __________ Mary.

5. Here __________ Jane and Sheila. __________

__________ my sisters.

6. My pencil __________ here. __________ is on the table.

7. You __________ in my class. __________ are my brother.

8. Catherine __________ my friend. __________ is in my class.
12. Write sentences.

1. Louis The United States

His names Louis. Hes from the United States.

2. Giancarlo Italy

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3. Keiki Japan

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4. Jos Spain

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5. John England

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13. Match the questions and answers.

1. Where are you from?

His names Franco.

2. Whats his name?

Shes from Argentina.

4. Wheres she from?

Im from Italy.

6. Wheres London?

Im fine, thanks.

3. Where are they from?

5. How are you?

Its in England.

Theyre from the United Sates.

14. Complete the sentences with the verb To Be (am , is , are).

1. She _____________ a great actress.

2. We _____________ french.

3. The teacher _____________ in the classroom.

4. The boys _____________ in New York.
5. I _____________ at home.

6. Mr. Travolta _____________ in the office.

7. They _____________ lawyers.

8. It _____________ a difficult problem to you.

9. The world ______________ a small place.

10. Web communication ______________ extremely quick.

11. Portuguese ______________ our official language.
15. Complete the sentences. Use is, am and are.

1. This __________ James.

2. Hello. I __________ Sandra.
3. How __________ you?

4. My name __________ Tariq.

5. What __________ your name?

6. It __________ a photo.
16. Write the numbers in full.

12 ________________________

8 _________________________

33

9 _________________________

27 ________________________

52

2 _________________________

66 ________________________

98

3 _________________________

51 ________________________

44

6 _________________________

79 ________________________

87

15 ________________________

100 _______________________

25

17 ________________________

49 ________________________

88

11 ________________________

105 _______________________

90

20 ________________________

1 _________________________

13

5 _________________________

14_________________________

18

65 ________________________

4 _________________________

19

64 ________________________

120 _______________________

168

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47 ________________________

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17. Circle the correct answers.

Conversation 1

A. Hello, (1) __________names Anna. Whats your name?

B. Ben.
(1)

a) your

b) My

c) you

d) I

Go!

Conversation 2
A. Hi, Carla. (2) __________ are you?
B. Fine, thanks. And you?

A. Im ok, (3) __________.

(2)

a) Hello

b) What

(3)

a) Hello

b) you

c) How

d) And

c) thanks

d) fine

Go!

Conversation 3

A. Whats (4) __________?

B. (5) __________s a book.
(4)

a) my

(5)

a) A

b) it

b) it

c) this

c) is

d) is

d) this

Conversation 4

A. Pierre, this is Yukio. Yukio, (6) __________ Pierre.

B. Hello, Pierre.
A. Hi, Yukio!
(6)

a) this is

b) is this

18. Answer.

1. Whats your name?

c) this

d) is

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2. Whats your surname?

__________________________________________.
3. How old are you?

__________________________________________.
19. Complete the sentences with the verb To Be.

1. Who __________ you? I __________ a boy. I __________ a student.

2. He __________ my friend. He __________ from Canada.
3. __________ she your sister? Yes, she __________.

4. We __________ at school and they __________ at home.

5. How old __________ she? She __________ eleven years old.

6. __________ your name Sarah? Yes, it __________.

20. Complete the text using the words below.

in

Monica

England

is

doctor
from

This is a photograph of Bruce and Monica Brown (1) _____________ New York.
They are (2) _____________ London. Bruce

(3) _____________ from the

United States and Monica is from (4) _____________. They are married. Bruce is
a

(5) _____________. (6) _____________ is a student.

21. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb To Be in the simple
present.

1. I _____ very happy.

2. We _____ tired.

3. The music _____ excellent.

4. Joe and Jenny _____ in love.
5. I _____ sixteen years old.

6. Suzy _____ twelve years old.

7. You _____ crazy.

8. Bobby _____ good in math.

9. The floor _____ is clean.

10. The trees _____ beautiful.

11. The test _____ easy.

12. It _____ cold outside today.

13. The children _____ at the skatepark.

14. They _____ great artists.

15. Mr. Jones _____ very old.

16. She _____ tall and slim.
22. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb To Be to make a
question in the simple present.

1. _____ you a good skater?

2. _____ it warm outside?
3. How old _____ you?
4. How old _____ she?
5. Where _____ your house?
6. When _____ his birthday?

7. _____ they at school right now?

8. _____ your mother a nurse?

23. Write the nouns and the verbs.

1. The boy close the book.

_______________

Noun: _______________

Verb:

2. The dog drink water.

_______________

3. The bee fly on the flower.

_______________

4. The clown sing a song.

Noun: _______________

Verb:

Noun: _______________

Verb:

Noun: _______________

_______________

5. Sally sit in the chair.

_______________

6. The bus drive down the street.

Verb:

Noun: _______________

Verb:

Noun: _______________

Verb:

_______________
24. Complete the following sentences with the Personal Pronouns.

_____ like reading.

John and _____ like reading.

_____ can go alone.

_____ can go together.

_____ goes to work every day.

_____ love my dog. _____ is so clever.

_____ teaches English.

Our ship collided with another and _____ sank.

_____ is a table.

_____ live in London.

_____ is a big city.

_____ is five kilometres from here.

Easy!

Easy!

_____ is cold outside.

_____ is five o'clock.

What a lovely baby! Is it a boy or a girl?

Shall _____ go to the cinema?

_____ 'll be back in a minute. See you later.

Easy!

_____ have two children, a boy and a girl.

_____ want us to pay more taxes.

If anyone wants to smoke, _____ should smoke outside.

It was _____ who asked the question.
Jennifer is taller than _____ .

Sue is as intelligent as _____ .

25. Write the following sentences in the negative and interrogative forms.

a) She is a very good student.

Negative:

___________________________________________________________________
___ .

Interrogative:

___________________________________________________________________
___ ?

b) Andrew and Tania are brothers.

Negative:

___________________________________________________________________
___ .

Interrogative:
___________________________________________________________________
___ ?

c) He is studying English literature.

Negative:

___________________________________________________________________
___ .

Interrogative:

___________________________________________________________________
___ ?

d) They are walking on the street.

Negative:

___________________________________________________________________
___ .

Interrogative:
___________________________________________________________________
___ ?

e) I am playing game on the laptop.

Negative:

___________________________________________________________________
___ .

Interrogative:

___________________________________________________________________
___ ?

f) It is getting out of control.

Negative:

___________________________________________________________________
___ .

Interrogative:
___________________________________________________________________
___ ?

g) We are reading a poem.

Negative:

___________________________________________________________________
___ .

Interrogative:
___________________________________________________________________
___ ?

h) He is a good basketball player.

Negative:

___________________________________________________________________
___ .

Interrogative:

___________________________________________________________________
___ ?
26. Write the correct contraction.

a) I am

__________

b) You are __________

c) He is __________

d) She is __________
e) It is __________

f) We are __________
g) You are __________

h) They are __________

27. Fill in the blanks with the present simple of verb To Be.

a) I _____ the school's director.

b) Only Anne _____ allowed to enter in this room.
c) My cat _____ called Lazycat.

d) Steven and I _____ cooking the dinner.

e) He _____ a security guard at the bank.
f) They _____ our new neighbors.

g) You _____ our best salesperson!

h) I _____ waiting for an email from my teacher.

28. Write in the negative form.

1. She is in the car.

2. This book is mine.

________________________________________ .
________________________________________ .

3. Jane and Peter are married.

________________________________________ .

4. That is right.

5. We are in England.

6. It is Monday today.

________________________________________ .
________________________________________ .
________________________________________ .

7. Jennies surname is Peters

________________________________________ .

8. I am a hairdresser.

________________________________________ .

9. My name is Alexander.

________________________________________ .

10. There are many people in this class.

________________________________________ .