4. Complete with was/wasn’t or were/weren’t to make true sentences.

1. Julius Caesar ____ the first Roman emperor.

2. The Olympic Games ____ in Barcelona in 1996.

3. Mozart _____ the composer of the Marriage of Fegaro.

4. Albert Einstein _____ born in Germany.

5. Valentina Tereshkova _____ the first woman in space.

6. Vincent Van Gogh _____ from Belgium.

7. The 2002 football World Cup ___ in China.

8. The Incas _____ from Mexico.

9. The Beatles _____ from Manchester.

10. Socrates and Plato _____ Roman philosophers.

11. Che Guevara _____ born in Cuba.

12. Bill Clinton ____ President of the United States in 2002.

13. Marie Antoinette _____ Louis XVI’s wife.

14. The Vikings _____ from Germany.

15. Garibaldi _____ born in Italy.

5. Put in am/is/are/was/were. Some sentences are present and some are past.

1. Last year their son ______ 26, so he ______ 27 now.

2. Today the weather ______ nice, but yesterday it _______ cold.

3. I ______ cold. Can I have something hot to drink?

4. I _____ hungry last night, so I had something to eat.

5. Where ______ you at 10 o’clock last Sunday morning?

6. Don’t buy those shoes. They ______ too expensive.

7. Why ______ you so tired yesterday?

8. We must go now. It _____ very late.

9. This time last year I _____ in England.

10. We _____ tired when we arrived home, so we went to bed.

11. Anton Chekhov died in 1904. He _____ a famous Russian writer.

12. Where ______ the dogs? I don’t know. They _____ in the garden ten minutes ago.

6. Complete the dialogues with was/wasn’t/were/weren’t.

I A _______ you and Susan at the party last night?

B Yes, we __________ .

A _________ it good?

B No, it __________ . The music ________ awful. Where ________ you?

A I ________ ill.

II A Where _______ you born?

 B I _______ born in Australia in 1919.

A _________ your parents Australian?

B No, they _________ . My mother _________ Italian and my father ______     Greek.

7. Transform the sentences into the Future Indefinite Tense.

1. My friend is a doctor. (in 5 years)

2. They are in Moscow. (during winter vacation)

3. On Monday our first lesson is English. (next Monday)

4. The lesson is over. (in 5 minutes)

5. I am eighteen years old. (in a year)

6. My parents are at home. (tonight)

8. Put in the verb «to be» in Present Simple, Past Simple or Future Simple.

Ronald Wood … a managing director of the First Bank of Kingsville on Main Street. He … always on a business trip. Yesterday he … in Geneva. Tomorrow he … in London. Last week he … in Chicago. Next week he … in New Orleans. At the moment he … in Amsterdam. In two hours he … in the Hague. Three days ago he … in Paris. At the end of his trip he … usually very tired but happy. He … with his family now. His sons … so much excited. They have got new toys from their father. Everybody in the family … very glad to see him at home again.

9. Read and translate the sentences with the verb «to be».

1. People are different. 2. It was a different way. 3. I am right. 4. They were right. 5. His point of view is different. 6. To use the scheme was to take a risk. 7. The method is to change the samples. 8. A plan is a program of actions. 9. To plan is to create plans. 10. It will be a different way. 11. The point of view of the student was right. 12. Water is a liquid. 13. Our interests were different. 14. Our interests will be different. 15. The conclusions are different. 16. We were right too. 17. He is right too.