Is There Anybody Here from Thailand?

Is there anybody here from Thailand?

Are there any students here from Peru?

Is there anybody here from Tahiti?

Is anyone from Katmandu?

Is there anybody here from Bali?

Are there any students here from Rome?

Is there anybody here from Quito?

Are there any students from Nome?

There’s one student from Thailand.

There are two students here from Peru.

There are three students here from Tahiti.

There’s no one here from Katmandu.

Exercise 2. Put in the correct form of there + to be.

1. ___ no water on the moon. 2. ___ no railways in the 18th century. 3. Once upon a time ___ a beautiful princess. 4. Tomorrow ___ snow. 5. ___ some soup, if you are hungry. 6. ___ any potatoes? 7. ___ wars all through the history. 8. ___ many tigers left in the wild world. 9. ___ an accident. Can I phone? 10. I’m afraid ___ time to see Granny.

Exercise 3. Make these sentences negative and interrogative, and then give short answers.

1. There are English books in my bag. 2. There was a telegram on the table. 3. There will be many changes in the text. 4. There were boxes on the floor. 5. There is a cat in the window. 6. There’ll be a cinema near our house. 7. There is a ghost in this castle. 8. There were a lot of mistakes in your test. 9. There will be an interesting show on TV tomorrow. 10. There are my friends on the photo. 11. There will be plenty of people at the stadium. 12. There was somebody in the room.

Exercise 4. Use the correct form of the verb to be.

1. Look! There ___ her address in the letter. 2. There ___ a hospital, a park and a cinema near our house. 3. How many students ___ there in your group? 4. There ___ seven days in a week. 5. There ___ my aunt, my uncle and a sister on the photo. 6. There ___ a football match on TV last night. 7. There ___a party in the club tonight. 8. There ___ four rooms in my flat. 9. There ___ an English club in our school next year. 10. When I came into the room, there ___ a lot of people there.

Exercise 5. Translate the sentences into English.

1. В нашем городе много университетов. 2. В зале два окна. 3. На этой улице были дома? 4. В комнате никого не было. 5. Возле этой стены будет стоять стол. 6. Сколько статей в этом журнале? 7. В вазе стояли розы. 8. На столе лежит книга и несколько журналов. 9. В театре было много детей. 10. Рядом с бассейном будет парк. 11. Здесь поблизости есть автобусная остановка?

Exercise 6. Compare the following pictures using there is / there are. Make affirmative and negative sentences.

Example: There is no river in picture 2.

There are two mountains in picture 1.

Picture 1 Picture 2

Exercise 7. Find the Russian equivalents to the following proverbs.

1. There is a black sheep in every flock. 2. There is many a slip between the cup and the lip. 3. There is no place like home. 4. There is no rose without a thorn. 5. There is no smoke without fire. 6. There is nothing new under the sun. 7. There is a will there is a way.

Exercise 8. Limericks are humorous poems. They begin by introducing a person and a place. They rhyme AABBAA, and have a strong rhythm. Practice saying the limericks. Remember to keep to the strong rhythm.

There once was a man from Harare

Who bought a brand new Ferrari.

Now the buck and the gnu

And the elephants too

Hide away when he goes on safari.

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There was this old man from France

Who did nothing else but dance.

He could foxtrot and tango

While eating a mango.

But get on TV? Not a chance.

Exercise 9. This Limerick has no rhymes. Supply, instead of fork, and quick, words that rhyme with Danoon [d∆nu:n], and instead of flesh a word that rhymes with eat.

There was an old man from Danoon

Who always ate soup with a fork,

For he said, “As I eat

Neither fish, fowl nor flesh,

I should finish my dinner too quick.

CONTINUOUS TENSES

To be + Ving (PI)

Present Continuous	Past Continuous	Future Continuous
am is + Ving are Am…. Is…. Ving ? Are …. … am not … is not (isn’t) Ving … are not (aren’t) Now, at the moment, at present, still	was + Ving were Was … Ving? Were … … was not (wasn’t) Ving … were not (weren’t) 1) from … to … yesterday 2) the whole (evening) 3) when mother came	will be + Ving Will … be Ving? … will not (won’t) be Ving 1)from … to … tomorrow 2) when mother comes 3) the whole (morning) tomorrow