ENGLISH

WORKSHOP – TEACHER JOHN VIVAS

FULL NAME: _______________________________________________
GROUP NAME: _____________________________________________
DATE: ___________________

IN THIS WORKSHOP YOU WILL FIND INFORMATION AND EXCERCISES FOR ENGLISH
BEGINNER LEVEL

Informal greetings and answers
Hi! Hello! Hello / Hi
What’s up! Not much!
Hi, how are you? Very good, thanks / Fine thank you
Hi, how’s it going? Not too bad, what about you?
How have you been? I’m doing ok / good / great
How are you doing? Excellent! / Fantastic

Good – byes / farewells
Bye! Good – bye!
See you tomorrow! See you!
Take care! Thank you, you too
See you around! See you later!
Have a good one/ day / Night! Thanks take care!
So long!

EXCERCISES:

I. Complete the questions, answers or statements based on the information about
greetings.

A. _______________________? B. R/ I am very good, and you?
A. What`s up? B. R/ __________________
A. See _____________________ B. R/ Ok see you!
A. Bye B. R/ __________________
A. Bye _______________________ B. R/ Bye, you too.

II. Complete the questions or the answer, if it is the case.

A. ___________________________ cell phone? B. R/ It means Celular in Spanish.
A. _______________________ “carro” in English? B. R/ You spell… C A R
A. When is your birthday? B. R/ _________________
A. ________________________ “cerveza” in English? B.R/ Beer.
A. _________________________ “gorra” in English? B. R/ You write… Cap.

Verb To be.

III. Complete the chart with am, is or are.

Example
I am a student.

1. They in the park.

2. We doctors.

3. It a beautiful house.

4. She a model

5. Carlos my husband.

6. He in Medellin.

7. Lorena and I in the cafeteria.

8. The cat on the sofa.

9. Flowers very expensive.

10. The computer in the living room.

11. You an excellent musician.

12. Martha on the phone.

13. What your name?

14. Where you from?

15. Where the eraser?

IV. Match the question with the corresponding answer.
Example: / Ejemplo:

Good morning. How are you doing? I am doing fine, thank you.
1. Where is he from? ___ a. You too!
2. Hi, how is it going? ___ b. It is 200 years old. It is very old!

3. Who is he? ___ c. I’m fine, thank you.

4. How old are you? ___ d. He is from Mexico.
5. How are you? ___
6. Where is Teresa? ___
7. How old is it? ___
8. Have a nice day! ___
9. What is your name? ___
10. What is her name? ___
e. My name is Charlie.
f. Rossana.
g. Everything is going well!
h. He is my husband.
i. I am 26 years old.
j. She is in the office today.

V. Complete the days of the week.

1. M __ __ day
2. T__ e __ day
3. Wed __ __ sday
4. T__ __ rsday
5. Fr__ d __ __
6. Sa __ __ __ day
7. S__ __ da __

There is – there are

There is / there are is a grammatical structure used to express that someone or

something exists.

There is indicates the existence of someone or something in singular form; it refers

to only one person or object.

There are indicates the existence of someone or something in plural form. It refers
to two or more people or objects.

VI. Look at the images and write there is or there are to complete the
sentences.

___________________ three
1 apples on the table.
2 ___________________ a
pencil on the floor.

3 ___________________ two
cars in the garage.

4 ___________________ five
students in the classroom.

5 ___________________ a
computer on the desk.
6 ___________________ a
pencil case in my bag.

7 ___________________ two
pictures on the wall.

8 ___________________ a
clock on the wall.

9 ___________________
many books in the big library.
 10 ___________________ a
magazine on the table.

VII Write the numbers as words.

Example
35 à Thirty-five
1. 5

2. 24

3. 17

4. 75

5. 20

6. 9

7. 84

8. 28

9. 66

10. 92

11. 19

12. 100

13. 88

14. 109

15. 52

16. 6

 VIII Use there is or there are to name of the objects that are found in the
bedroom.

Example
In the bedroom there is a bed.
In the bedroom there are flowers.

IX. Fill the blanks with the elements more appropriate.

A. My brother’s name ____ Ronny, he ____ twenty years old. _____ best friend_
name ___ Matt. They ______ good friends, They like soccer, ______ favorite
soccer teams _______ Real Madrid and Milan. Ronny__ favorite activity ____
video games, video games are Matt__ favorite activity too.

B. Christine ____ my best friend, she _____ my classmate at school 4 years ago.
Christine ____ very tall and beautiful.
In this moment we _____ in her house. _____ family is not at home, ____ mom is
in the office and ____ dad ____ ______ (NEG) in the city. Christine___ family
____ very rich. They have a lot of money. Christine__ car is amazing. She has a
BMW.

C. I ___ Petter, I _____ twenty five years old. I _____ from Australia. I live ___
Colombia. Colombia ___ a beatiful __________. My girlfriend is _____ Cali but she
lives ___ Medellín with me.

X. Answer the following questions. For YES/NO questions do both
possibilities. Make affirmative and negative answer.

* What time is it?
______________________________________________________

* At what time is the English class?

______________________________________________________
* Are they in a library?

* Were your parents born in Rionegro?

_______________________________________________________
* Is Sophia__ boyfriend hot?
______________________________________________________
* Where is your sister__ classmate from?
______________________________________________________

* Is your birthday on may 1st?

______________________________________________________
* Are those your books?
______________________________________________________
* Who is Lorenzo’s mom?
______________________________________________________
* When is the next English class?
______________________________________________________

XI: Make Questions for the next answers.

A. _____________________________________________________
No, She is not, she is only my sister.

B. _____________________________________________________
Yes, Laura’s brother is my student.

C._____________________________________________________
Martin’s money is on the table.

D. ____________________________________________________
The meeting is at 10 am.

E. _____________________________________________________
No, I was not, I was in English class whole morning.

F. _____________________________________________________
Because I was in a very important meeting.

G. ____________________________________________________

No, It is not, the soccer match is on Saturday at night.

H. ____________________________________________________

Yes, it is, today is a very hot day.

XII. Translate into English the following sentences.

A. Él estaba conmigo en la mañana.
_______________________________________________________

B. ¿Cuendo es el cumpleaños de la novia de tu hermano?

_______________________________________________________

C. Mis padres no están en la ciudad, ellos están de vacaciones con sus mejores
amigos en San Andres. El nombre del mejor amigo de mi papá es Arturo. El
nombre de su esposa es Diana. Pero él no esta con ella en San Andres, él está
con su amante Lina.
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
_________________________________

D. Son las 5 en punto, hace calor y el día esta espectacular.

_______________________________________________________

E. Es sábado, hoy no hay clases en el SENA.

_______________________________________________________

XIII. Fill the blanks in the box.
Personal pron. To be Contractions Statements Personal pron

I I’m I am a student

You You’re

He He’s

She

It It’s it is a dog

We We’re we are in the English class

 They

XIV. Translate into English the following sentences.

A. ¿Cuándo es el cumpleaños de tu mamá?.
______________________________________________________________________
B. ¿Donde esta tu primo?.
______________________________________________________________________
C. Diana tiene 20 años y Laura tiene 18 años.
______________________________________________________________________
D. El cumpleaños de mi papá es el 1 de diciembre.
______________________________________________________________________
E. Daniel está con mi hermana y ellos estan en el carro de su papá.
______________________________________________________________________

XV. Answer the following yes/no question with your own information in the long
way.

1. Are you sad?
2. Is that our family?
3. Is your brother married?
4. Is your birthday in March?
5. How old are you?

XVI.Create questions for the following statements.

1. No, Laura is not. She is very happy

2. Yes, they are. They are in English class.
3. No, we are not. We are from Colombia.
4. Yeah, Christin is. She is his lover.
5. Not really, she is only my friend.