RW 2 Describing picture & people.MDI - Noel's ESL eBook Library

EXERCISE
EXERCISE
EXERCISE
ACTIVITY
3. Structures to describe pictures: there is/are
A. Look around you, at your classroom. Are these sentences true or false?
1. There’s a teacher.
2. There are twelve students.
3. There’s a blackboard.
4. There are two whiteboards.
5. There are some pictures on the walls.
6. There’s some water in a bucket.
7. There are more male students than female students.
8. There’s a lot of money on the desk.
9. There are a lot of chickens outside.
10. There are many intelligent, hardworking students!
B. Fill in the gaps in the box with these grammar terms.
uncountable noun singular plural countable negative
There is/are
There is + singular , _____________ There is a shop near my house.
There is + __________________ There is some sugar in the bag.
There are + ________________ noun. There are students in the class.
In the _______________, use isn’t and aren’t with there. There isn’t a teashop nearby.
Use any with ________________ and There aren’t any teashops nearby
_________________ nouns. There isn’t any water in the river.
There’s = There is
C.Make true sentences. Fill the gaps with there is/are/isn’t/aren’t.
1. _____________ some food in the kitchen.
2. _____________ any gold under the classroom.
3. _____________ a lot of dust outside the window.
4. _____________ a good football team in this school.
5. _____________ any tigers near here.
6. _____________ a piano in my house.
7. _____________ some soldiers at the checkpoint.
D.Work in groups. Write three sentences about your house, using there is/are/isn’t/aren’t.
Write two true sentences, and one lie. Read your sentences to the group.
Can they identify the lie?
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