TO BE IN THE SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE
I. Aim : Further Practice in the verbs TO BE in the Simple present tense
and vocabulary
II. Procedure :
TEACHER’ ACTIVITIES
STUDENTS’
ACTIVITIES
A WORD POWER :
Pair work
 Complete the word list with the words from the
box :
sister – farmer – telephone – lamp – doctor – nurse – brother –
grandfather – television – driver – worker – mother – father – architect
– teacher – grandmother – stereo – couch – bookshelf – table – parents
– uncle – aunt – desk – stool – window – door
Things
Jobs
Family
members
telephone
farmer
sister
lamp
doctor
brother
etc.
etc.
etc. T – Whole class
Elicit new words from Ss ( give Vietnamese meaning
):
- farmer

are

/ aren’t

S + be + noun / adjective / adverb
/(…)



Pair work

Further Practice :
I Complete the following sentences :
1 We ___ in class
2 ___ your father an architect ?
3 It ___ not a ruler
4 Tuan and Mai ___ students.
5 Those lamps ___ new.
Individual work
6 There ___ an armchair in this room
7 ___ that your bookshelf ?
8 Her grandfather and grandmother ___ old.
9 ___ they nurses ?
10 ___ there many people in your family ?
II Change the following sentences into negative
and interrogative form :
1 Students are in class.
Individual work
2 Mr Minh is an engineer.
3 There’s a television in the living room.

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