The Verb “to be” in the Indefinite Tenses

	Affirmative (стверджувальна форма)	Interrogative (питальна)	Negative (заперечна)
Present	I am he she is it you we are they	Am I …? he Is she …? it you Are we …? they	I am not he she is not (isn’t) it you we are not (aren’t) they
Past	I he was she it you we were they	I Was he …? she it you Were we …? they	I he she was not (wasn’t) it you we were not (weren’t) they
Future	I , we shall be he she it will be you they	Shall I, we be …? he she Will it be … ? you they	I, we shall not be he she it will not be you (won’t be) they

Grammar Exercises

Exercise 4. Fill in the blanks with am, is, are, was, were, will be, shall be.

1. … you a scientist?

2. Who … the eldest member of your family?

3. I … a second year student next year.

4. Scientific conference … in our University in 1996.

5. … this man a teacher or a doctor?

6. He … an American, … he?

7. … these your books?

8. … you in London last year?

Exercise 5. Ask your friend all possible questions to the following sentences.

1. Victor Petrov is a student.

2. He is a famous scientist.

3. They were members of our society.

4. My friend is a famous artist.

5. She was a good research worker.

6. I am a student of KSTU.

7. We were good friends.

8. The house of his grandfather is very old.

Exercise 6. Say it in English.

1. Твоя мати була студенткою цього університету?

2. Він відомий науковець, чи не так?

3. Я не учень а студент.

4. Вoна не на роботі.

5. Мій дідусь був професором в університеті.

6. У майбутньому я буду хорошим спеціалістом.

7. Хто автор цієї статті?

8. Вони були добрими друзями.

9. Твій брат буде завтра на лекції?

Language

I. Read the following words

Economist, cashier, financier, society, important, book-keeper, special, saving, busy, realize, corner-stone, science, economics, speciality .

II. Read and translate the following text

I am a student

I am Kovalenko Katya. So, I am a student now. I’m a first-year student of the day-time department. I’ve entered State Tax Service Academy of Ukraine after finishing a secondary school. You know, that was my dream to enter this Institute. No wonder, as all members of our family are economists.

My father taught me to understand and love mathematics. I realize now mathematics is a corner-stone of all sciences. My father works as a financier at the Planning Economic Department of the plant.

My mother is a book-keeper at a book-keeping department of the factory. She likes her specialty very much. I have a sister. She is twenty. And she is also an economist. She works as a cashier at the post-office savings-bank. She combines her work with studies at the Institute. She is a second-year student of non-resident instruction at this Institute.

As you see, I took my parents way. I worked hard to pass my entrance examinations well. And now I’ve become a happy member of the great, young family of students.

Many new things and notions came into my life with it. At first, I didn’t know what they meant. Now I became familiar with such words as “a freshman”, “a sophomore”, “an undergraduate” and such terms as “a period”, “a seminar”, “labworks”. I know what it means “to make notes”, “to pass thousands”, etc.

I’m still to know more, and first of all how to save time to be able to not only study well, but to take an active part in the students’ life, to join some students’ scientific society and to sing in our Academy choir, to become a member of our Academy famous football team and to visit interesting students’ evening-parties.

I’m fond of everything at my Academy. I like its great beautiful building, sport complex, it’s lecture halls, laboratories, studies.

I’m a freshman, as they call the first-year students. It’ll take time to take time to know everything about our Academy.