1. Word cloud
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What is the most common verb in the English language?
2. Slide
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Verb to be is used to identify or describe a person, place or thing. It is used to describe how someone looks, feels, thinks or acts. There are three forms of verb to be: am, is, are.
Verb To Be
3. Slide
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Conjugation: Conjugation is the process of changing a verb from its base form into a different form to show a different tense, mood, person, number, or gender. Auxiliary Verbs: Auxiliary verbs, commonly known as helping verbs, are verbs that are used together with a main verb to express the main verb's tense, mood, or voice. Negation: Negation is the grammatical process that turns an affirmative statement into its opposite, or negates it.
Concepts:
4. Slide
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The verb 'to be' is the most common verb in the English language. The verb 'to be' has eight forms (am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been). The verb 'to be' is a so-called 'irregular verb', meaning it does not take on the same pattern as other verbs when used in the past tense.
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5. Open question
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Work together in pairs: What is the difference between the forms "am", "is", and "are" in the verb to be?
6. Personalised Feedback
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In what situations would you use the verb "to be" in its different forms (am, is, are, was, were) to communicate information or express a state of being?
7. Drawings
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Brain break: Draw a hamburger with superhero powers, fighting against a pack of french fry villains!
8. Poll
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Which of the following is the correct present tense form of 'to be' for the pronoun 'I'?
- are
- am
- is
9. Poll
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What is the past tense form of 'to be' for the pronoun 'he'?
- be
- was
- were
10. Poll
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Fill in the blank: She ___ a doctor.
- is
- are
- am
11. Poll
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Which of these sentences uses 'to be' as a helping verb?
- He is eating dinner.
- They were playing soccer.
- She was running in the park.
12. Poll
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Choose the correct sentence that uses 'to be' correctly:
- We is going to school now.
- She is studying for her exam.
- The book am on my desk.
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