1. There’s a nice park in our city. (1)
2. There are five chairs in the room. (1)
3. There are some English text-books on my table. (2)
4. There are a lot of mistakes in your exercise-book. (1)
5. There are three mistakes in my dictation. (2)
6. There’s a new cinema near my house. (1)
6. Put the following sentences into plural forms:
1. There is a brown desk in this room. 2. There is a fork and a knife on the table. 3. There is a blue sofa in his room. 4. There was a telex on Mr. Zotov’s desk. 5. There is a good exercise in this lesson. 6. There was an English book on the shelf. 7. There is a large kitchen in our flat. 8. There is a man and a woman in the room.
7. Put the following sentences into negative and interrogative:
1. There is a little girl in the room. 2. There was a telex on the table. 3. There are students there. 4. There were forks on the table. 5. There are telexes on the desk. 6. There were women in the room. 7. There are fifty children at the nursery – school.
8. Insert the verb to be in appropriate form:
1. There … only a Russian book on the table but there … no English book on it. 2. There … 15 lessons in our English book. 3. There … six hundred workers at this factory last year. Now there … seven hundred workers there. 4. … there a nursery-school in your house? – Yes, there … . I take my son there. 5. There …forks, spoons and knives on the table but there … no cups on it. 6. … there cheese and ham on the table now? –Yes, there … . 7. There … a letter on this table. Where is it now? 8. …there a bath-room in Ann’s flat? – Yes, there … . 9. There … no shelf in my room. Now I have a good shelf. 10. There … a tea-pot and three cups on the table.
9. Put questions to italicized words:
1. There are students in this room. (1)
2. There were English books on the shelf (2)
3. There is a woman in the kitchen. (1)
4. There was a watch on the table. (1)
5. There are good texts in this book (2)
Read the text:
Let’s visit the Smiths
The Smiths’ house is in Blueberry Street. It’s semi-detached, and it’s got a red roof, white windows and a brown door.
In front of the house there are some trees. At the back of the house there is a small garden with some pretty plants and flowers.
Downstairs in the house there is a hall, a living room, a kitchen, a study and a toilet. Upstairs there are three bedrooms and a bathroom. Paul and Sue’s bedroom is quite big. Mark’s bedroom is also big, but Mary’s bedroom is small.
The living room is not very big. There is a coffee table in the middle, and a sofa next to it. Next to the sofa there is a big plant. Near the coffee table there is an armchair and a TV. On the floor next to the armchair there is a lamp.
a. Read these sentences and define which of them are true or false:
True False
1. There are five bedrooms in the Smiths’ house ___ ___