Facultad de Ciencias de la Educacin Pedagoga en Ingls Sede Valdivia Profesor: Annabel Wenzel Asignatura: Estructuras Fundamentales del Ingls

CONTENTS

Subject pronouns Present of be Affirmative statements Negative statements Yes / No questions and short answers Wh-Questions Be + adjectives Be + adjective + Noun Be + Noun Imperatives

UNIT 1

THE VERB BE AND IMPERATIVES

Think about the verb be:

1.How many forms does it have in the present? Which are they? 2.The subject of a sentence can be a pronoun or a noun. Subject pronouns replace subject nouns.

Milt is a detective.
The girls are students. Replace the subject nouns in the previous sentences by subject pronouns.

3.Please list the subject pronouns.

4. Write the contractions or short forms of the subject pronouns and the verb be.

We use the VERB BE before:

a) singular and plural nouns b) adjectives c) prepositional phrases Give examples: a) b) c)

TRANSLATE THE SENTENCES INTO ENGLISH AND IDENTIFY THE PART OF SPEECH WHICH FOLLOWS THE VERB. a) Ann es enfermera. __________________________________________ b) Estoy muy contenta. _________________________________________ c) Ellos son de Valdivia. __________________________________________ d) Ann est aburrida. _________________________________________

 Write

about you. Consider at least name, age, job, place of origin, address and telephone number.

 Write about a friend or relative.

Negative statements with be:

Write a negative statement. Write two different examples of negative contractions. A) B)

TRANSLATE THESE SENTENCES INTO ENGLISH

a) George y yo no somos estudiantes. _____________________________________ a) George no es profesor. _____________________________________ d) Ann y yo no estamos en casa. _____________________________________

 Make the texts about you and a friend or relative, negative.

YES / NO QUESTIONS AND SHORT ANSWERS

TRANSLATE THE SENTENCES INTO ENGLISH AND ANSWER THEM.

a) No son ustedes de Santiago? __________________________________________ b) Estn Ann y George divorciados? _________________________________________ c) Ests cansado? __________________________________________ d) Es Susan casada? _________________________________________ e) Estamos tristes?

Write all the question words you know.

Example: What .. .. ..

Ask your partner questions in order to write a text about him/her.