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00:00Use the verb to be to talk about ages, jobs, the time, feelings, nationalities, and more.
00:10So first I'm going to talk to you about how we conjugate the verb to be depending on the subject
00:18pronoun.
00:19I am. For example, I am Jennifer.
00:24Or we could say I'm. I'm Jennifer.
00:28Apostrophe M is the contraction for I am.
00:33You are. Your.
00:37He, she, or it, we use is.
00:42He is. He's.
00:45She is. She's.
00:48It is. It's.
00:51And these are all the singular form of the verb to be.
00:56We have three different plural forms and for all of them we use are.
01:02You are. Your.
01:05We are. We're.
01:09They are. Or their.
01:14So we use the verb to be to talk about names or introductions.
01:19For example, I'm Jennifer.
01:22I am Jennifer.
01:24Or he's Jose.
01:27He is Jose.
01:29You can say either I'm or I am, but it's more common to say I'm to use the contraction form
01:37of the verb to be.
01:38We also use the verb to be to talk about ages.
01:44She's 19.
01:46You're 26.
01:49Or nationalities.
01:51I'm Canadian.
01:53They're Spanish.
01:55We also use the verb to be to talk about time.
01:59It's one o'clock.
02:02Or feelings and states.
02:05I'm angry.
02:06You're tired.
02:09We also use the verb to be to talk about weather.
02:13It's sunny today.
02:15And we use the verb to be to talk about descriptions.
02:19Jane is beautiful.
02:21After names, we could also use the contraction.
02:26We could say Jane's beautiful, which would mean Jane is beautiful.
02:32If we want to make the verb to be negative, we use not.
02:37For example, I am not.
02:40I'm not.
02:41You are not.
02:43You aren't.
02:44He is not.
02:46He isn't.
02:47For example, I'm not Jessica.
02:51She isn't 32.
02:54I'm not American.
02:57It isn't three o'clock.
03:00You aren't tired.
03:03It isn't rainy.
03:06We aren't old.
03:09Now, if we want to make a question or an interrogative sentence using to be, we say, am I?
03:19Are you?
03:20Is he or is he or is she?
03:23For example, are you Jack?
03:27How old are you?
03:30Is he 20 years old?
03:33Are they Italian?
03:36Are they Italian?
03:36Are they Italian?
03:36Is it 8 o'clock?
03:39What time is it?
03:42Are you hungry?
03:45Is it cold outside?
03:48Am I funny?
03:51A common mistake for many English learners is to add a question mark after an affirmative sentence.
04:00So, for example, you are Jack?
04:06This would be incorrect.
04:08We have to switch the verb to be and the subject pronoun.
04:15Are you Jack?
04:18Now I want to show you how to make a short answer.
04:22So, if someone asked you, are you tired?
04:26You could say, yes, I am.
04:30Or, no, I'm not.
04:34Am I intelligent?
04:37Yes, you are.
04:38No, you aren't.
04:41Is he American?
04:44Yes, he is.
04:46No, he isn't.
04:48Are they married?
04:51Yes, they are.
04:52No, they aren't.
04:55So, now let's look at a conversation example.
04:59Imagine these two people are at a party and they're having a conversation.
05:04You can see how many times the verb to be can be used in one small conversation.
05:12Hello, my name is Joe.
05:15What's your name?
05:17I'm Sue.
05:19Are you Canadian?
05:21No, I'm not.
05:23I'm Scottish.
05:24Are you married?
05:26Yes, I am.
05:28My husband is in the bathroom.
05:32Is he the tall man with black hair?
05:36Yes, he is.
05:38My husband is a police officer.
05:42That is an interesting job.
05:45I'm a doctor.
05:48Now we're going to practice filling in the blanks with the correct form of the verb to be.
05:55For all the questions with a check, we're going to answer in the affirmative form of the verb to be.
06:02I am happy.
06:04The correct answer would be I'm happy or I am happy.
06:12Number two.
06:14You are tired.
06:17The correct answer is you're tired or you are tired.
06:24Number three.
06:26She is a lawyer.
06:30She's a lawyer or she is a lawyer.
06:37Number four.
06:38It a rainy day.
06:41The correct answer is it's a rainy day or it is a rainy day.
06:50Number five.
06:52They beautiful flowers.
06:54The correct answer is they're beautiful flowers or they are beautiful flowers.
07:04Now we're going to answer the next five questions in the negative form of the verb to be.
07:11I'm angry.
07:13I'm not angry or I am not angry.
07:20He 30 years old.
07:23He isn't 30 years old.
07:27Or he is not 30 years old.
07:32Number eight.
07:33It 6 o'clock.
07:37It isn't 6 o'clock.
07:41Or it is not 6 o'clock.
07:469.
07:48We aren't married.
07:51We aren't married.
07:54Or we are not married.
07:58Number 10.
08:00You aren't very nice.
08:04You aren't very nice.
08:08Or you are not very nice.
08:10For the last five questions, we're going to write the interrogative form of the verb to be.
08:18You, Jason?
08:21Are you, Jason?
08:24Number 12.
08:26It hot outside?
08:29Is it hot outside?
08:32Is it hot outside?
08:3413.
08:36I a nice person?
08:39Am I a nice person?
08:44Number 14.
08:46They your parents?
08:48Are they your parents?
08:53And now we're going to write the short answer.
08:57No, they aren't.
09:02Number 15.
09:04She your girlfriend?
09:07Is she your girlfriend?
09:12Yes, she is.
09:18So let me know in the comment section how many you got correct out of 15 for this practice quiz
09:25of the verb to be in the present simple.
09:28We use the verb to be to talk about ages, jobs, the time, feelings, nationalities, and more.
09:36We use the simple past tense of the verb to be for any state to describe a person or situation
09:44in the past.
09:45So here we have the comparison of the present simple and the past simple.
09:58We use the present simple to describe all of these things here in the present, but we use the past
10:08simple form to describe anything that happened in the past.
10:12So I am becomes I was, you are becomes you were, he is becomes he was, or she was, it
10:25was, and you, we, and they are become you were, we were, they were.
10:34Also, it's important to note that we only have the contraction of the verb to be in the present form.
10:42You can say you're instead of you are, but you can't say you're instead of you were.
10:53So with the past simple, you just have to remember was or were.
10:59So let's look at some examples.
11:02Here we have the present, and here we have the past.
11:06It was cloudy yesterday.
11:10It is sunny today.
11:14They were happy at the cinema last Friday.
11:19They are sad this morning.
11:24Now let's look at how we form negative sentences.
11:29I was not, or I wasn't.
11:33You were not, or you were not.
11:36You were not, or you were not.
11:38He was not, or he wasn't.
11:42She wasn't, it wasn't.
11:45You, we, they were not.
11:49You weren't, we weren't, they weren't.
11:54So let's look at some examples.
11:56It wasn't sunny yesterday.
12:00It was rainy.
12:02In the present tense, we would say, Toby isn't in a good mood today.
12:08He is angry.
12:12We weren't at a restaurant last night.
12:16We were at the cinema.
12:19They aren't at home right now.
12:22They are at school.
12:25So here we can see the difference between using aren't in the present tense and weren't in the past.
12:35Now let's look at how we form questions with the past simple form of the verb to be.
12:55We always begin the question with the to be form.
13:01You cannot say, you were angry last night.
13:05You have to say, were you angry last night?
13:10Let's look at some examples.
13:13Was she in Canada for the holidays?
13:20So again, we can see the difference between was in the past and is for right now in the present.
13:31Were you busy yesterday?
13:35Are you available right now?
13:38Again, in the past we use was or were, and we use am, is, or are in the present tense.
13:49Now how do we form short answers?
13:53Let's look at some examples.
13:56Were you tired?
13:58Yes, I was.
14:01Or, no, I wasn't.
14:04Were they born in Italy?
14:07Yes, they were.
14:10No, they weren't.
14:13Was she at the party?
14:16Yes, she was.
14:18No, she wasn't.
14:21So pay attention to the form here at the beginning of the question.
14:27If it says, were they?
14:29We would answer, yes, they were.
14:32No, they weren't.
14:33The only difference is, were you tired?
14:37Because the subject, you would have to respond as, I.
14:41Yes, I was.
14:43No, I wasn't.
14:45Okay, so now we are going to do some practice together.
14:49There are nine questions in total.
14:52I'm going to read each question out to you, and then we will correct them at the end.
14:58For example, if you see this check here, it means you have to put this in the positive form of
15:07the verb to be in the past symbol.
15:09So not, it is a beautiful wedding, we have to use the past tense of the verb to be.
15:18And if you see an ex, you have to use the negative form.
15:23So number one, it, a beautiful wedding.
15:27Number two, James, happy last night.
15:31Number three, you, a terrible boyfriend.
15:38Four, it, a good film.
15:43Five, we, invited to the party.
15:48Six, they, married.
15:53Seven, it hot outside?
15:56Now for this one, we are doing questions.
16:00So just answer the form of the verb to be in the past for questions and short answers.
16:08Question eight, they, your cousins?
16:11No, they.
16:14And finally, number nine, she, your friend?
16:19Yes, she.
16:21We aren't friends anymore.
16:24So now we are going to correct these together.
16:29Number one, it was a beautiful wedding.
16:33Number two, James wasn't, or James was not, happy last night.
16:42Number three, you were a terrible boyfriend.
16:47Number four, it was a good film.
16:51Number five, we weren't, or we were not, invited to the party.
16:59Number six, they weren't married.
17:03Number seven, was it hot outside?
17:08Number eight, were they your cousins?
17:12And the answer, no, they weren't.
17:15Number nine, was she your friend?
17:20And the answer, yes, she was.
17:24Okay, so let me know how many you got correct out of nine.
17:30You can count these ones as 0.5 each.
17:33So we use the verb to be to talk about ages, jobs, the time, feelings, nationalities, and more.
17:43In my previous video, we talked about the verb to be in the past simple form.
17:48In the past simple form, we use was or were.
17:53For example, you were tired yesterday.
17:57Jerry was a firefighter 10 years ago.
18:00And in the present tense, we use am, are, or is.
18:07For example, you are happy today.
18:11Jerry is a doctor now.
18:13And in today's lesson, we're going to talk about the future.
18:19And in the future simple, we say will be.
18:24For example, I will be.
18:27You will be.
18:28He will be.
18:30And the contraction, I'll be.
18:34You will be.
18:35For example, it'll be cloudy tomorrow.
18:39My nephew will be 3 in August.
18:43So let's look at some more examples about the verb to be in the future in the affirmative form.
18:51So we use the verb to be to talk about ages.
18:55For example, he'll be 50 next year.
19:00Teresa will be 16 in a month.
19:04In both of these sentences, we're talking about something that will happen in the future.
19:12We also use the verb to be to talk about nationalities.
19:17She'll be an Italian citizen when her visa gets approved next week.
19:23We also use the verb to be to talk about feelings and states.
19:28I'll be really busy tomorrow afternoon.
19:31Josh will be in Paris next month.
19:36We also use the verb to be to talk about weather.
19:40It'll be sunny tomorrow.
19:43So here we are using the verb to be plus will to predict the weather for tomorrow.
19:50Now let's look at forming the verb to be in the future in the negative form.
19:57So in the negative form, we say will not be.
20:02But the contraction is won't be.
20:06We do not say will not.
20:10No, we say won't.
20:13I will not be tired tomorrow.
20:17Or I won't be tired tomorrow.
20:21For example, I won't be available tomorrow evening.
20:26It won't be rainy next week.
20:30Jack said that he won't be late.
20:34The shops won't be open on Sunday.
20:39So again, in all of these examples, we're talking about something in the future.
20:47Now let's look at forming questions or interoperative sentences.
20:54Will I be?
20:55Will you be?
20:57Will he be?
20:59Will she be?
21:01We begin with will.
21:03Then we have the subject.
21:05And then be.
21:07Will you be at the party tomorrow?
21:11Will Jane be available next Sunday?
21:15Will it be cloudy tomorrow?
21:18So all of these are questions about the future.
21:23So now we're going to do a 10-question quiz.
21:27For each question, you have to use the verb to be in the affirmative form if there's a check,
21:34in the narrative form if there's a cross,
21:38or if there's a question mark in the interrogative form.
21:43Number one.
21:44I.
21:45Really happy if you come.
21:49Number two.
21:51You.
21:51Punished if you cheat.
21:55Number three.
21:57She.
21:58A lawyer in a few years.
22:02Number four.
22:03It.
22:04Rainy tomorrow.
22:07Number five.
22:08I.
22:09Angry.
22:11Number six.
22:13Dave.
22:14Thirty next year.
22:17Number seven.
22:18My brother.
22:19Here at six o'clock.
22:22Number eight.
22:24Louise.
22:25Here on the weekend.
22:28Number nine.
22:30You.
22:31My girlfriend.
22:33And finally, number ten.
22:35They.
22:37Married.
22:38Next summer.
22:42Okay, so now we're going to correct these together.
22:45Number one.
22:47I'll be.
22:49Really happy if you come.
22:51I'll be.
22:52Or I will be.
22:54Really happy if you come.
22:56Number two.
22:57You.
22:58You'll be punished if you cheat.
23:01Or you will be punished if you cheat.
23:05Number three.
23:06She'll be a lawyer in a few years.
23:10Number four.
23:12It won't be.
23:15It won't be rainy tomorrow.
23:18Number five.
23:19I won't be angry.
23:22I won't be angry.
23:23Number six.
23:25Dave will be.
23:27Thirty next year.
23:30Number seven.
23:31My brother.
23:33Won't be.
23:35Here at six o'clock.
23:37Number eight.
23:38We have to make a question.
23:41Will.
23:42Luis.
23:42Be.
23:44Here on the weekend.
23:46Number nine.
23:48Will you be.
23:50My girlfriend.
23:52And finally.
23:53Number ten.
23:54They'll.
23:55Be.
23:56Married.
23:57Next summer.
23:59Okay, so let me know in the comment section of this video.
24:03How many you got correct out of ten.
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