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English Exercises for Elementary Students

Using the verb To be

A) Write the correct form of the verb To be in present tense.
Example: I am happy

1) I ______ tired. 6) It ______ fast.

2) I ______ hungry. 7) You ______ nice.
3) I ______ late! 8) We ______ sleepy.
4) He _____ cool. 9) They ______ funny.
5) She ______ pretty. 10) We ______ happy.

B) Now we will use nouns instead of pronouns

1) John ______ excited. 7) My parents ______ cooking dinner

2) Tiffany and Uma ______ my friends. 8) Rachel ______ driving to School
3) Ricardo, John and I ______ watching a movie. 9) Nikkos and Billy ______ playing
4) Hadi ______ kind 10) The students _____ studying English
5) Alias _______ young. 11) The test ______ hard!
6) The hammer _______ new. 12) My best friend _____ coming home.

Using the verb To be

C) Choose the correct form of verb To be in present tense.

Example: The new car is nice.

1) The bag ________ blue. 2) The rocks ________ hard.

A. am A. am
B. are B. are
C. is C. is

3) The children ________ young. 4) Thomas ________ nice.

A. am A. am
B. are B. are
C. is C. is

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5) The game ________ difficult. 6) They ________ tired.
A. am A. am
B. are B. are
C. is C. is

7) I ________ thirty years old. 8) Susan and Juan ________ married.

A. am A. am
B. are B. are
C. is C. is

9) Teddy ________ my friend. 10) We ________ in English class.

A. am A. am
B. are B. are
C. is C. is

D) Write sentences. Use the correct form of be

Example: I / young I am young.
1. She / clever ______________________________________________________
2. You / not old_____________________________________________________
3. You / sleepy _____________________________________________________
4. We / not employee ________________________________________________
5. She / not short ____________________________________________________
6. It / rainy _________________________________________________________
7. They / unhappy ___________________________________________________
8. He / not hungry ___________________________________________________
9. They / tidy ______________________________________________________
10. He / handsome ___________________________________________________

E) Write the long form of the verb To be. F) Write the short forms of the verb To be

Example: Im a student Example: She is a student.

I am a student Shes a student.
1. Whats your name? 1. My name is Maria
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2. Shes from Italy. 2. He is married.
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3. Im ten years old. 3. They are from Brazil.

__________________________ _______________________________

4. Theyre from the USA. 4. I am from Mexico. I am not from Spain.

__________________________ _______________________________

5. Youre Mozambican. 5. We are from the USA.

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 __________________________ _______________________________

6. Were students. 6. He is a teacher. He is not a doctor.

__________________________ _______________________________

G) Write the short forms of the verb To be. H) Write the long form of the verb To be.

Example: Italy is in Europe. Example: Theyre Italian.

Italys in Europe. They are Italian.

1. It is not hot today. 1. You arent old

__________________________ ____________________________

2. I am not married. 2. My flats small.

__________________________ _____________________________

3. Where is the newspaper? 3. Her son isnt an account.

__________________________ _____________________________

4. They are not from Mozambique. 4. His wife isnt a journalist.

__________________________ _____________________________

5. We are at work. 5. Theyre at work.

__________________________ _____________________________

6. You are a student. 6. They arent rich.

__________________________ _____________________________

I) Change the sentences into questions:

Example: I am an engineer. Am I an engineer?
1) You are ill _______________________________________________
2) Linda is a pretty girl _______________________________________
3) Belinda is a singer ________________________________________
4) Nick is an actor __________________________________________
5) We are good friends _______________________________________
6) He is an officer___________________________________________
7) It is an eraser ____________________________________________
8) You and Eddie are partners _________________________________
9) Rosie is angry ____________________________________________
10) Jack and I arent good swimmers ________________________________________

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J) Change the sentences into negative:

Example: Brazil is in Europe Brazil isnt in Europe.

1) Germany, England, and Spain are country _____________________________________

2) A lemon is sweet. _________________________________________________
3) Maputo is massy city ______________________________________________
4) Airplanes are fast _________________________________________________
5) The US President is English. ________________________________________
6) Snow is hot _____________________________________________________
7) Youre English ___________________________________________________
8) Were in a Russian class ___________________________________________
9) Airplane is very cheap nowadays _____________________________________
10) We re studying Portuguese now _________________________________________

K) Short answers
Write true answers
Example: Is your father an engineer? No, he isnt.

1. Are you English? ___________________________________________

2. Are you a student?
3. Is your teacher married?
4. Is it hot today?
5. Is English difficult?
6. Are you twenty-one years old?
7. Are you at school?
8. Are your parents at home?
9. Is your mother still alive?
10. Are you an employer?
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L) Long answers
Write true answers
Example: Is your father an engineer? No, he is not an engineer.

1. Are you English? __________________________________________

2. Are you a student? __________________________________________
3. Is your teacher married? __________________________________________
4. Is it hot today? __________________________________________
5. Is English difficult? __________________________________________
6. Are you twenty-one years old? __________________________________________
7. Are you at school? __________________________________________
8. Are your parents at home? __________________________________________
9. Is your mother still alive? __________________________________________

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 10. Are you an employer? __________________________________________

M) Write a, an, or the.

Example: a pen
1. ______ ticket 7. ______ telephone 13. ______ book
2. ______ orange 8. ______ ice-cream 14. ______ uniform
3. ______ car 9. ______ student 15. ______ pillow
4. ______ newspaper 10. ______ bag 16. ______ sky
5. ______ house 11. ______ apple 17. ______ uniform
6. ______ camera 12. ______ sun 18. ______ paper

N) Complete this postcard by using AM, IS, ARE, AM NOT, ISNT, ARENT:

Hello!
My name _______ Jack and this ______ Sue.
She _______ my sister. Sue _______ twelve years old and I _______ sixteen.
We __________ adults. We ______ students. We ________ English. We ___________
Mozambican.
We ________ from Maputo. Maputo ________ in the Mozambique.

Best regards,
Jack

O) Present simple

Read the paragraph and answer the questions:

Brian is a doctor. He looks after sick people. He usually gets up at 6.00 oclock. Today he is
late, it is 6.30 and he is still in bed. He usually goes to work by train but today he is driving to
work. He arrives at work at 6.30 every morning but it is 7.30 now and he is still driving.

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Its 12.00 oclock now. He always has his lunch at 12.00 but today he isnt having lunch at
12.00, he is looking after his sick patients. It is half past seven now, Brian is watching TV. He
Usually watches TV at half past seven because his favorite programme starts at half past seven.
Brian has his dinner at 8.30 everyday and he is having dinner now.
It is 24.00 now Brian is going to bed. He always goes to bed at 24.00.

1. What does Brian do?

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2. What time does he usually get up?
________________________________________________________________________
3. How does he usually go to work?
________________________________________________________________________
4. Why is he driving to work today?
_______________________________________________________________________
5. What time does he arrive at work every day?
_______________________________________________________________________
6. When does he always have his lunch?
_______________________________________________________________________

7. What is he doing at 12.00 today?

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8. Why does he usually watch TV at 7.30?
_______________________________________________________________________
9. What time does he go to bed?
_______________________________________________________________________
10. What time is he going to bed now?
_______________________________________________________________________

P) Fill in the blank spaces by using present simple.

1. What ______ you ________?
Im a receptionist in a hotel

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 2. What _______ your wife _______?
She works in the hotel bar
3. Where ________ you _________?
At the Regent hotel in London
4. How many Languages ______ you ______________?
Three, English, German, and Spanish.
5. ________ You ___________ Japanese?
No, I dont. But I want to learn it.
6. ________ your wife ____________ English?
Yes, she does. She speaks it fluently
7. What time _______ you ________ to work?
At six oclock in the morning.

Q) Adverbs of frequency
Positions of adverbs
Put the words in the correct other to make sentences.
Example: brush / I / the / my / teeth / morning / always / in I always brush my teeth in the morning
1) always / France / to / go / we / spring / in
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2) stay /hotel / a / usually / we / in

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3) plane / sometimes / by / go /we
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4) sometimes / Eurostar / go / we / by
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5) children / with / never / our / us / come
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6) we / restaurant / go / a / often / evenings / Friday / to / on

R) Questions about you

Answer the questions about you. Use an adverb of frequency in your answer.

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Example: Do you watch television? Yes, but not very often.
1) How do you come to school?
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2) Whats the first thing you do in the morning?
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3) Do you have tea or coffee for breakfast?
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4) What do you do in the morning?
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5) Where do you go on Sundays?
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6) Where do you go on holiday?
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7) Do you have a winter holiday?
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8) What does your family do at Christmas?
We ______________________________________________________

S) Write questions.

1) Where / John / come from?

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2) Where / Alison / learn Japanese?

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3) What / your husband / do?

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4) How much / this book / cost?

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5) What time / Mark / leave in the mornings?

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6) How many children / your sister / have?

___________________________________________________________

T) Make the sentences negative.

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 1. Keiko works at weekends.
___________________________________________________________

2. My brother wears a uniform at work.

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3. He goes to the supermarket every day.

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4. Barbara drives to work.

___________________________________________________________

5. He has a lot of free time in the evenings.

___________________________________________________________
6. She watches TV every morning.
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U) Write questions.

1. He works for IBM.

___________________________________________________________

2. She comes from Manchester.

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3. He goes swimming every week.

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4. Diane goes to school by bus.

___________________________________________________________

5. She travels a lot.

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6. Peter lives near the centre.

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V) Write short answers to the questions.

1. Does he eat meat?

Yes, ________________________________.

2. Do they want a drink?

No, _________________________________.

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 3. Do you go shopping every day?
No, _________________________________ .

4. Does she cook very often?

No, _________________________________.

5. Do you live with your parents?

Yes, ________________________________.

6. Does he speak English?

Yes, ________________________________ .

W) Complete the text with the correct form of the verb.

come go like love visit speak speaks

dont speak have has work works

THE REGENT HOTEL, LONDON

Jack Tippit and his wife, Isabel, who is Spanish, both work at the Regent Hotel in the centre of
London. Jack is a receptionist and Isabel works in the Hotel bar.

Jack says: Ten million people (1) visit London every year. Our hotel (2) __________ sixty
rooms and visitors (3) ___________from all over the word, especially from American and Japan.
I (4) ___________ English, German, and Spanish. I (5) __________ Japanese, but I want to
learn it. Isabel (6) _____________ English and France and Spanish, of course. Our visitors (7)
___________ doing many things. They often (8) _______________ breakfast in the hotel, an
English breakfast of eggs, bacon, and toast. Then perhaps after breakfast they visit the Houses of
parliament and Buckingham palace and (9) ____________ shopping in Harrods. They come back
to the hotel at four oclock and have tea and relax. Then in the evening they go to the theatre.
Isabel and I work long hours. I (10) ______________ from six oclock in the morning till three
in the afternoon, and Isabel (11) _____________ from six in the evening till one in the morning,
but we (12) ____________ our work

X) Questions and negatives

Match the questions and answers.

1 Where does he live? a Thirty-two

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 2 What does she do in her free time?
3 Who does he play football with? b Because hes a pilot

4 When does she go skiing? c In a flat in Manchester

5 How does she go to work? d His two sons.

6 How many languages does she speak? e By car

7 How old are you? f Two. France and English

8 Why does he travel a lot? g She goes swimming.

h In winter

Y) Match the numbers and words.

30th 1 a third
12th 2 b twentieth
2nd 3 c thirty-first
31st 4 d tenth
5th 5 e first
10th 6 f twelfth
21st 7 g fifth
1st 8 h twenty-first
4th 9 i fourth
20th 10 j second
3rd 11 k thirtieth

Z) Write the numbers

One _________ two ___________

Ten _________ twelve ___________

One hundred _________ twenty ___________

3 ________________ fourteen ___________

13 ________________ forty-five ___________

30 ________________ fifty-four ___________

5 ________________ sixteen ______________

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15 ________________ twenty-six _______________

50 ________________ sixty-one ________________

7 ________________ eighteen _________________

17 ________________ eight-seven __________________

78 _________________ ninety-eight _________________

19 _________________ 40 ________________________

90 _________________ 65 ________________________

99 _________________ 82 ______________________

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