Present Simple questions with be speaking

Your teacher will give you around ten classroom objects such as a ruler, a ballpoint pen and an 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 more questions, starting from the same first question each time, until everyone forgets the questions. Your teacher will tell you if/ when you can look at the questions below to help.

Take turns asking and answering these questions, adding “am/ is/ are” (orally) each time.

  • 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.

Put the right form of “be” in each of these answers.

  • 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 question for each of these answers, then check above.

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