LANGUAGE FOCUS • Starter unit

be: singular affirmative 4 Look at the picture of a classroom. Write eight

sentences about the classroom. Use there’s or
1 Choose the correct words. there are.
This am / is / are my friend Helen.
1 I ’m / is / are fine, thanks.
2 Dan am / is / are from London.
3 You am / is / are thirteen.
4 It am / is / are a ruler.
5 You am / is / are in the classroom.
6 Mrs Smith am / is / are a teacher.

be: singular and plural

2 Complete the sentences with the pronouns in the
box and the correct form of be.
He ​I ​It ​She ​They ​We ​You

We’re students.
1 a nice boy.
2 time for class.
3 welcome, Mark.
4 a girl from Brazil. There’s a teacher.
5 my friends. There are two girls.
6 My name is Sue. thirteen.

there is / there are

3 Find and correct one mistake in each sentence.
There’s five girls.
There are five girls.
1 There are a pen on my desk.

2 They are six books in my bag. Instructions

5 Match 1–7 with a–g.
3 There’s twelve months.
1 Read a down.
2 Listen b a partner.
4 There are an orange pen.
3 Open c and repeat.
4 Stand d the text.
5 It are eleven boys in the class.
5 Sit e up.
6 Talk with f sentences.
6 There’s two students.
7 Write g your book.

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