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Review - Verb to be




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REVIEW - VERB TO BE
 
 
1. Complete the text below with the correct form of the verb "to be":
 
Marcia from Brazil. She  25 years old and works as a secretary at ZLS Computers, in 
 Dublin. She  very communicative and has a lot of friends. Two of her best friends are Miguel and
 Pauline. Miguel  from Portugal. He  27 years old. Pauline  a very funny French girl.
 She  30 years old. Marcia and Miguel  single, but Pauline . She  married to a
 doctor. She says they  very happy.
 Marcia says she wants to go back to Brazil, but she  sure she  going to miss her friends.
 
 
2. Complete the sentences with the appropriate form of the verb "to be".
a. I  Portuguese. I  from São Paulo, Brazil.
b.  you from Spain?
c. Phillip and Susan  American. But their mother  Canadian and their father  from Puerto Rico.
d. The dog  barking a lot today.
e. We  lawyers. We  doctors.
f.  Ross funny?
   No, he . Actually, he  one of the most humorless people I know.
 
 
3. Check the right answer:
 
a. Terry __________ a pilot.
 is not               is               are               aren't
 
b. Caitlyn __________ a model. She travels the world and she can speak four languages.
 are               are not               is               am
 
c. __________ your parents from China?
    No, they __________.
Aren't / are          Is/ isn't               Are / aren't          Are / are
 
 
4. Complete the jokes with the verb "to be":
 
a.  you wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger?
    Yes I
, I married the wrong woman.
 
b. A very drunk man comes out of the bar and sees another very drunk man.
    He looks up in the sky and says, "
that the sun or the moon?"
    The other drunk man answers, "I don't know. I
a stranger here myself."
 
 
c. Two cows standing in a field.
    One says to the other "
you worried about Mad Cow Disease?"
    The other one says "No, It doesn't worry me, I
a horse!"