CONTENTS

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1-1 Singular Pronouns + Be
1-2 Plural Pronouns + Be
1-3 Singular Nouns + Be
1-4 Plural Nouns + Be
1-5 Contractions with Be
1-6 Negative with Be
1-7 Be + Adjective
1-8 Be + a Place
1-9 Summary: Basic Sentence Patterns with Be

CHAPTER 1: PREVIEW

Whats
your
name?

My
name is
Akela.

First Name

Country

Akela
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What
country
are you
from?

Im from
Kenya.

First Name

Country

Akela

Kenya
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My
name is
Nick.

Whats
your
name?

First Name

Country

Akela

Kenya

Nick
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Im from
Greece.

What
country
are you
from?

First Name

Country

Akela

Kenya

Nick

Greece
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1-1 SINGULAR PRONOUNS + BE

1-2 PLURAL PRONOUNS + BE

I am a teacher.

1-1 SINGULAR PRONOUNS + BE

1-2 PLURAL PRONOUNS + BE

SINGULAR
PRONOUN + BE + NOUN

(a) I

am a teacher.

1-1 SINGULAR PRONOUNS + BE

1-2 PLURAL PRONOUNS + BE

SINGULAR
PRONOUN + BE + NOUN

(a) I

am a teacher.

(b) You are a teacher.

1-1 SINGULAR PRONOUNS + BE

1-2 PLURAL PRONOUNS + BE

SINGULAR
PRONOUN + BE + NOUN

(a) I

am a teacher.

(b) You are a teacher.

(c) She is

a teacher.

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1-1 SINGULAR PRONOUNS + BE

1-2 PLURAL PRONOUNS + BE

SINGULAR
PRONOUN + BE + NOUN

(a) I

am a teacher.

(b) You are a teacher.

(c) She is

a teacher.

(d) He

a teacher.

is

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1-1 SINGULAR PRONOUNS + BE

1-2 PLURAL PRONOUNS + BE

SINGULAR

PRONOUN + BE + NOUN

(a) I

am a teacher.

(b) You are a teacher.

(c) She is

a teacher.

(d) He

is

a teacher.

(e) It

is

a school.
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1-1 SINGULAR PRONOUNS + BE

1-2 PLURAL PRONOUNS + BE

SINGULAR

PLURAL
PRONOUN + BE + NOUN

(a) I am a teacher.

(f) We

are teachers.

(b) You are a teacher.

(g) You are teachers.

(c) She is a teacher.

(h) They are teachers.

(d) He is a teacher.
(e) It is a school.
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1-1 SINGULAR PRONOUNS + BE

1-2 PLURAL PRONOUNS + BE

SINGULAR

PLURAL

I am a teacher.

We are teachers.

You are a teacher.

You are teachers.

She is a teacher.

They are teachers.

He is a teacher.
It is a school.
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1-1 SINGULAR PRONOUNS + BE

1-2 PLURAL PRONOUNS + BE

SINGULAR

PLURAL

I am a teacher.

We are teachers.

You are a teacher.

You are teachers.

She is a teacher.

They are teachers.

He is a teacher.
It is a school.
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1-1 SINGULAR PRONOUNS + BE

1-2 PLURAL PRONOUNS + BE

SINGULAR

PLURAL

I am a teacher.

We are teachers.

You are a teacher.

You are teachers.

She is a teacher.

They are teachers.

He is a teacher.
It is a school.
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1-1, 1-2, Lets Practice

SINGULAR

PLURAL

I am a girl.

We _______
are girls .

are a girl .
You ________

You _______
are girls .

is a girl .
She _______

They _______
are girls .

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1-3 SINGULAR NOUNS + BE

Canada is a country.

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1-3 SINGULAR NOUNS + BE

NOUN + IS + NOUN

(a) Canada
Canada isisa acountry.
country.
Canada = a singular noun
is
= a singular verb
country = a singular noun
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1-3 SINGULAR NOUNS + BE

(b) Sydney is a city.

A is an article.
A singular nouns

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1-3 SINGULAR NOUNS + BE

Brazil is a country.
Peru is a country.
Santiago is a city.

*
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1-3 SINGULAR NOUNS + BE

(c) A butterfly is an insect.

A
An

same meaning

a and an are articles

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1-3 SINGULAR NOUNS + BE

a chair
a woman
a school
a lion
a bed
a man
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1-3 SINGULAR NOUNS + BE

a chair
a woman
a school
a lion

A in front of
consonants

a bed
a man
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1-3 SINGULAR NOUNS + BE

an elevator
an egg
an avocado
an elephant
an oven
an ear
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1-3 SINGULAR NOUNS + BE

an elevator
an egg
an avocado
an elephant

An in front of
vowels

an oven
an ear
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1-3 SINGULAR NOUNS + BE

An apple is a fruit.
A bear is an animal.
A rose is a flower.
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1. __ school is ___ building.

A
a
2. ___ horse is ___ animal.
A
an
3. ___ ant is ___ insect.
An
an
4. Soccer is ___ sport.
a

a an

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1-3 Lets Practice

Colombia is a country
______.
Argentina is a country
______.

Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo is a city

___.
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1-3 Lets Practice

building

machine

shape

A printer is a ________.

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1-3 Lets Practice

building

machine

shape

A square is a _______.

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1-3 Lets Practice

building

machine

shape

A house is a ________.

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1-3 Lets Practice

building

machine

shape

A triangle is a _______.

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1-4 PLURAL NOUNS + BE

Ducks are birds.

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1-4 PLURAL NOUNS + BE

NOUN + ARE + NOUN

(a) Ducks are

arebirds.
birds.
Ducks
are
birds

= a plural noun
= a plural verb
= a plural noun
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1-4 PLURAL NOUNS + BE

(b) SINGULAR: a dog, an animal

PLURAL: dogs, animals

a and an only with singular nouns

plural nouns end in -s
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1-4 PLURAL NOUNS + BE

(c) SINGULAR: a city, a country

PLURAL: cities, countries
Omit the -y and add -ies

citiyes
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1-4 PLURAL NOUNS + BE

(c) SINGULAR: a city, a country

PLURAL: cities, countries
Omit the -y and add -ies

countr iyes
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1-4 PLURAL NOUNS + BE

NOUN and NOUN + ARE + NOUN

(d) Italy and Greece

are

countries.

(e) Bees and ants

are

bugs.

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1-4 PLURAL NOUNS + BE

plural
Schools are buildings.

singular
A school is a building.

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1-4 Lets Practice

singular

An elephant is
an animal.
plural

Elephants are
animals.
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1-4 Lets Practice

singular

A swan is a bird.

plural

Swans are birds.

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1-4 Lets Practice

Carrots are vegetables.

yes

no

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1-4 Lets Practice

Bees is insects.
yes

no

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1-5 CONTRACTIONS WITH BE

Im a teacher.

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1-5 CONTRACTIONS WITH BE

PRONOUN + BE

AM

am

CONTRACTION

Im

Im a teacher.
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1-5 CONTRACTIONS WITH BE

PRONOUN + BE

IS

CONTRACTION

she + is

shes

he + is

hes

it

its

+ is

Shes
girl..
Hes
boy
Its aaa
cat.
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1-5 CONTRACTIONS WITH BE

PRONOUN + BE
ARE

CONTRACTION

you + are

youre

we + are

were

they + are

theyre

Theyre
students.
Youre
students.
Were students
.
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1-5 Lets Practice

My teacher is a woman.
Shes nice.
_____

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1-5 Lets Practice

My dog has four puppies.

Theyre
______ cute.

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1-5 Lets Practice

I like you.
Youre
_____ friendly.

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I have two sisters.

Were students.
______

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1-6 NEGATIVE WITH BE

I am not a teacher.

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1-6 NEGATIVE WITH BE

CONTRACTIONS

Shes
not
Youre
not
Hes
not
Im not
You
arent
She
isnt
He isnt
(a) I am not a doctor.
(b) You are not a doctor.
(c) She is not a doctor.
(d) He is not a doctor.
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1-6 NEGATIVE WITH BE

CONTRACTIONS

Were
not
Theyre
Youre
Its not
not
not
We
arent
They
You
It isnt
arent
arent
(e) It is not a city.
(f ) We are not doctors.
(g) You are not teachers.
(h) They are not teachers.
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1-6 Lets Practice

isnt

arent

The women ______

arent nurses.
they

doctors

Theyre
doctors
______________.

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1-6 Lets Practice

isnt

arent

isnt a teacher.
This girl ____
she student

Shes
a student
______________.
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1-6 Lets Practice

isnt arent

This animal _____

isnt a dog.
it cat

_________.
Its a cat

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1-7 BE + ADJECTIVE

A fire is warm.

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1-7 BE + ADJECTIVE

An elephant is big.
A butterfly is small.
A ball is round.
A fire is warm.
Sarah is happy.
Adjectives describe nouns
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1-7 BE + ADJECTIVE

NOUN

BE + ADJECTIVE

(a) An orange

is

round.

(b) Oranges

are round.

(c) Jane

is

young.

(d) Ada and Rob are intelligent.

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1-7 BE + ADJECTIVE

PRONOUN + BE + ADJECTIVE

(e) I

am

happy.

(f ) It

is

round.

(g) We

are

young.

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1-7 Lets Practice

small

rich

dirty

Hes not clean.

dirty
Hes ____.

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1-7 Lets Practice

Deserts arent wet. Theyre ___.

dry
sad
sweet
dry

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1-7 Lets Practice

is ____.
cold
Ice cream __

is
are

cold
warm
small
big

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1-7 Lets Practice

A fire __
is _____.
warm

is
are

cold
warm
good
bad

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1-7 Lets Practice

is ____.
The tree __
tall
The bushes ___
_____.
are short

is
are

tall
short
young
old

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1-8 BE + A PLACE

Janet is at home.

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1-8 BE + A PLACE
(a) Janet is here.
(b) Bill is at the library.

here = a place
at the library = a place
be

place

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1-8 BE + A PLACE

(c) Janet is

upstairs.
there.
inside.
downtown.
downstairs.
outside.
here.
one-word places

downtown
upstairs

there
downstairs

inside

outside
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1-8 BE + A PLACE

Jonas is outside.

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1-8 BE + A PLACE

Luke is upstairs.

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1-8 BE + A PLACE

PREPOSITION + NOUN
(d) Silvia is

next to

Jenny.

prepositional
preposition + noun =
phrase

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1-8 BE + A PLACE

Jara is in the pool.

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1-8 BE + A PLACE

Lia is on the car.

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1-8 BE + A PLACE

He is

She is

downtown.
upstairs. one word
outside.
on the car.
prepositional
at school.
phrase
in the pool.
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1-8 Lets Practice

at

under above on

The plant is ___

on the table.

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1-8 Lets Practice

downtown
here
outside

Max is downtown
________.

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1-8 Lets Practice

at school.
Beth is ___

at
under
next to
on

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1-8 Lets Practice

The table and chair are _____

under the tree.
at
under
above
on

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1-9 SUMMARY: BASIC SENTENCE PATTERNS

WITH BE

An elephant is big.

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1-9 SUMMARY: BASIC SENTENCE PATTERNS

WITH BE

SUBJECT + BE +

3 basic completions

NOUN

(a) I

am

a teacher.
ADJECTIVE

(b) She

is

happy.
A PLACE

(c) She
(d) I

is
am

a noun
an
adjective

at the gym. an expression

of place
downstairs.
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1-9 Lets Practice

An eagle is a bird.

correct?___

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1-9 Lets Practice

Eggsare
is healthy.
Eggs
healthy.
no
correct?___

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1-8 Lets Practice

China and Japan

are countries.

correct?___

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1-8 Lets Practice

The
Thelion
lionare
is big.
big.
no
correct?___

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1-9 Lets Practice

The
Theboys
boysare
is atatthe
thebeach.
beach.

correct? ___
no

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