II. Answer the questions

What is your name? What is he (she)? How old are you? Where is he (she) from? What are you? Who is from Gomel? Where are you from? Where were you last year? Who is your friend? What will you be in 6 years? How old is he (she)? You were interested in chemistry at school, weren’t you?

III. Use “to be” in the right form

My name ___ Ann. I ___ 18. I ___ a first-year student. Last year I ___ a pupil. I ___ 17. Next year I ___ 19.

This ___ my friend. Her name ___ Olga. She ___ 18. We ___ first – year students. We ___ in the same form at school. We ___ doctors in 6 years.

We ___ at the English lesson now. We ___ happy. We ___ students. Why ___ you happy?

Who ___ that boy? What ___ his name? Where ___ he from?

___ those girls students, too? What ___ their names? Where ___ they from?

I ___ eager to be a doctor. We ___ eager to be doctors. ___ you eager to be a doctor? – Yes I ___. (Yes, we ___.)

I ___ interested in Anatomy. ___ you interested in Anatomy?

Our education ___ free of charge. His education ___ not.

How ___ you? – I ___ well, thank you.

How ___ your sister? - She ___ fine, thanks.

IV. Make the sentences negative and interrogative

1. He is interested in research work.

2. She is interested in taking an active part in the Institute social life.

3. This senior student is married.

4. His wife is a nurse.

5. They are ready for the lesson.

6. They are late for classes.

7. They are sorry about it.

V. Ask alternative questions

1. I am eager to be a doctor. (an economist)

2. Our education is free of charge. (expensive)

3. He is interested in medicine. (Physics)

4. This is a certificate of education. (an application for admission to the medical University)

5. My friend is a first-year student of the Gomel Medical Institute. (the University)

6. They were at the library after classes yesterday. (at the canteen)

7. They will be happy about it. (sorry)

VI. Ask the necessary questions. (Read the answers to the questions)

(his name?) (single or married?) (British?) (where / from?) (how old?) (a student?) (your mother / a teacher?) (where / from?) (her name?) (how old?)

Robert. I’m single. No, I am not. From Australia. I’m 18. No, I am a secretary. No, she is a lawyer. She’s Italian. Rachel. She is 40.

VII. Write questions with these words

1. What color / your house last year?

2. Where / my key?

3. Where / my trousers?

4. How old / your grandmother next year?

5. What color / his hair many years ago?

6. How much / these shoes?

7. Who / your favourite actor?

8. Why / you always late?

VIII. Ask as many questions as possible

1. My friend is interested in Anatomy.

2. Jack was ill with the grippe five days ago.

3. The students will be at home at 7 o’clock in the evening.

IX. Change the sentences into all Indefinite Tenses (use “today, yesterday, tomorrow)

1. I ___ glad to see my new friends and teachers.

2. I think, he ___ ill.

3. She ___ well.

X. Put the verb “to be” in the right form

1. I ___ glad to see you. How ___ you?

2. Bob’s parents ___ travel agents.

3. The best seats ___ $10.

4. I ___ hot. Open the window, please.

5. ___ you hungry?

6. The news ___ (not) very bad today.

7. Your money ___ in your handbag.

8. We ___ very busy last week.

9. John ___ at the meeting tomorrow night.

XI. Use the necessary form of the verb “to be”

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 ___ two 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.