Objective At the end of the topic you will:

Verb to be Reproduce the verb to be in its affirmative, negative and

interrogative forms through the study of greetings, presentations
Forms: affirmative, negative, interrogative. (First part)and farewells (in formal and informal contexts) to exchange
personal information inside and outside the classroom.
CONCEPT 1 CONCEPT 2
Answer these questions: We use verb to be a lot in English, so it's really
- What’s your name? important to understand it well in its different forms.
The verb to be will allow you to create simple
- What is your mother’s name? sentences to communicate.
In this unit you will be able to acquire the four
- What is your father’s occupation? communicative abilities: Listening, Reading,
Speaking and Writing and you will find some
- What’s your nationality? practice activities that are trial and error; you can
practice them the times that you consider
convenient.
The learning activities are those that will be
evaluated in order to qualify that you have achieved
the objective of the subject
I hope you will enjoy it at take the most of
advantage of it! Good luck!

Content I SHE
VERB TO BE
YOU HE IT WE YOU THEY

The verb to
be is used to I am Su You are  He is Pat She is M It is a We are f You are s They are f
say
something san --- Ann --- rick --- ary Ann lap top riends --- occer riends ---
about a
I’m Sus You’re A He’s Pat --- --- It’s a We’re fri players --- They’re fri
person,
thing, or an nn rick She’s M laptop ends. You’re so ends
state, to
show a ary Ann ccer
permanent I am a You are  He is a It is a We are t They are t
or players
temporary young a student She is a dog --- wins --- eachers ---
quality,
state, job or mother teacher --- model --- It’s a We’re tw You are st They’re te
occupation,
--- I'm a --- He's a She’s a dog ins udents --- achers
and
nationality. young You’re a student model You’re stu
Look these
examples: mother teacher dents

 Sarah is 
34 years
old.

 My
classroom is
not enormou
s.

 We are 
happy.

 It is cold
today.

 Stephen 
is
not married.

 Are you
 an
engineer?

 They ar
e
not Russian.
In this chart
you can see
how the
verb to be in
the present
tense is
structured:

Affirmative, negative and interrogative forms. Full and short structures

The verb to be, has a complete structure and contraction, and can be used in an affirmative,

negative and interrogative form. Then you can review the information in the following table.

In this chart, check the use of contractions and questions:

Interrogativ
Affirmative Negative
e

FULL SHORT FULL SHORT

I am I’m I am not I’m not Am I?

You
You’re You are not You’re not Are you?
are

He is He’s He is not He‘s not Is he?

She is She´s She is not She‘s not Is she?

It is It’s It is not It’s not Is it?

We are We’re We are not We‘re not Are we?

You
You’re You are not You’re not Are you?
are

They They are

They’re They’re not Are they?
are not