Present Simple questions with be speaking

Time to Talk Yellow S Unit 1

Your teacher will give you 8-15 typical classroom objects such as a ruler, ballpoint pen and eraser. One person will pass one of those things and ask a personal question. The person who received that will ask the same question as they pass the same thing, then pass another thing and ask a different question. Continue adding more things and questions, starting from the same first question each time, until everyone forgets the questions.

Take turns asking and answering questions below, adding “am/ is/ are”.

  • what your name?
  • what your job?
  • you an office worker?
  • your office near here?
  • where you from?
  • you from Tokyo?
  • you British?
  • how old you?
  • what your telephone number?
  • what your favourite food?
  • how you?
  • how old your father?
  • what your father’s job?
  • what your mother’s name?
  • where your parents from?
  • what this (in English)?

Write the correct form of “be” in the right places in the questions above.

Ask and answer all the complete questions in pairs.

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Without looking above if you can, put the right form of the verb “be” in each answer below.

  • My name Alex
  • I an English teacher
  • Yes, I
  • No, it not
  • I from Brighton
  • No, I not
  • Yes, I
  • I 27 (years old)
  • It 090 7788 9900
  • My favourite food fish and chips
  • I fine, thank you
  • He 65 (years old)
  • He retired
  • Her name Pat
  • They from London
  • It an automatic pencil

Try to remember the questions for each answer above.

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