REVIEW - VERB TO BE

 
 
1. Complete the text below with the correct form of the verb "to be":
 
Marcia  from Brazil.
She   25 years old and
works as a secretary at ZLS
Computers, in 
 Dublin. She   very
communicative and has a lot
of friends. Two of her best
friends are Miguel and
 Pauline. Miguel   from
Portugal. He   27 years old.
Pauline   a very
funny French girl.
 She   30 years old. Marcia and Miguel   single, but Pauline  . She   
married to a
 doctor. She says they   very happy.
 Marcia says she wants to go back to Brazil, but she   sure she   going to miss
her friends.
 
 
2. Complete the sentences with the appropriate form of the verb "to be".
a. I   Portuguese. I   from São Paulo, Brazil.
b.   you from Spain?
c. Phillip and Susan   American. But their mother   Canadian and their
father   from Puerto Rico.
d. The dog   barking a lot today.
e. We   lawyers. We   doctors.
f.   Ross funny?
   No, he  . Actually, he   one of the most humorless people I know.
 
 
3. Check the right answer:
 
a. Terry __________ a pilot.
 is not                is                are                aren't
 
b. Caitlyn __________ a model. She travels the world and she can speak four
languages.
 are                are not                is                am
 
c. __________ your parents from China?
    No, they __________.
Aren't / are           Is/ isn't                Are / aren't           Are / are
 
 
4. Complete the jokes with the verb "to be":
 
a.   you wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger?
    Yes I  , I married the wrong woman.
 
b. A very drunk man comes out of the bar and sees another very drunk man.
    He looks up in the sky and says, "  that the sun or the moon?"
    The other drunk man answers, "I don't know.
I   a stranger here myself."
 
 
c. Two cows   standing in a field.
    One says to the other "  you worried about Mad
Cow Disease?"
    The other one says "No, It doesn't worry me, I   a horse!"