Exercises: Verb to be

1. Answer these questions about you.

a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

What is your name?

Are you from the United States?
Where are you from?
Are you a student?
Is your teacher from England?

2. Complete these sentences about Kaka, Angelina Jolie and Brad

Pitt.
a. Kaka _________ a soccer player. He _________ an attacking
midfielder.
b. His full name _________ Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite.
c. He _________ 27 years old.
d. He _________ from Brasilia, Brazil.
e. He _________ 6.1 feet tall (=1..86m).
f. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt _________ both American.
g. They _________ actors.
h. They _________ married and they have six children!
i. In your opinion, _________ they a perfect couple?
3. Choose some of these adjectives to write three sentences about
yourself.
happy beautiful intelligent stubborn short tall stressed calm
tired good-looking old young single married hungry

a. I
b. I
c. I
4. Complete this joke (adapted from www.ajokeaday.com) with verb
to be.
Joan and her neighbor are talking about their daughters, Joan
says, My daughter _________ at the university. She _________ very
intelligent. Every time we get a letter from her we have to go to the
dictionary.
Her neighbor says, You _________ lucky. Every time we hear
from our daughter we have to go to the bank.

Exercises: Verb to be
1. Answer these questions about you.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

What is your name?

Are you from the United States?
Where are you from?
Are you a student?
Is your teacher from England?

2. Complete these sentences about Kaka, Angelina Jolie and Brad

Pitt.
a. Kaka _________ a soccer player. He _________ an attacking
midfielder.
b. His full name _________ Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite.
c. He _________ 27 years old.
d. He _________ from Brasilia, Brazil.
e. He _________ 6.1 feet tall (=1..86m).
f. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt _________ both American.
g. They _________ actors.
h. They _________ married and they have six children!
i. In your opinion, _________ they a perfect couple?
3. Choose some of these adjectives to write three sentences about
yourself.
happy beautiful intelligent stubborn short tall stressed calm
tired good-looking old young single married hungry

a. I
b. I
c. I
4. Complete this joke (adapted from www.ajokeaday.com) with verb
to be.
Joan and her neighbor are talking about their daughters, Joan
says, My daughter _________ at the university. She _________ very
intelligent. Every time we get a letter from her we have to go to the
dictionary.

Her neighbor says, You _________ lucky. Every time we hear

from our daughter we have to go to the bank.