ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY: Always, usually, often, sometimes, rarely ( almost never)
and never.
PHASES OF FREQUENCY:
Every day
Once a week
Twice a day
Three times a month
Four times a ………
Every six hours ……….
THERE IS / THERE ARE = HAY
-Do you live in a house or in an apartment? I live in an apartment on the 4th floor.
-Is there an elevator? Yes, there is.
-What’s your apartment like? There are two bedrooms, a bathroom and a small kitchen.
- How many rooms are there in your house? There are 3 bedrooms and a large family
room.
- Is there a garden in your house? Yes, there is a small garden in front of the house.
RECUERDA! Para describir el mobiliario dentro de un lugar se utiliza la forma: there
is/are….
THERE IS / THERE ARE.
• We use there is /there are to say that something/ someone exists. (to indicate o
describe)
There is a post office on the corner of the street.
There are six hundred people at the party.
• We use there is with a singular noun:
There is a sofa in the room.
• We use there are with a plural noun:
There are four children in the garden.
• The short form of there is = there’s:
There’s a supermarket in the next street. (Spoken form)
• The negative form is like this:
There is not /there are not
• We use the shorts form when we are speaking: there isn’t/ there aren’t.
There isn’t any sugar in the coffee.
There aren’t any students in class today.
• Questions are like this:
Is there a church in the area?
Are there any towels in the bathroom?
• We can give short answers like this:
Is there a dog in the house? Yes, there is/ No, there isn’t.
Are there any cars in the park? Yes, there are/ No there aren’t.
Exercise # 1. Complete the dialogues with the correct form of there is / there are.
1. A: ______________ two bedrooms in your new house?
B: Yes, ______________. _________________ a big bedroom upstairs and a
small bedroom downstairs, next to the living room.
2. A: _______________ a yard behind the house?
B: No, _____________ but _____________ a garage.
3. A: In our new house ______________ two windows in the living room.
B: Really? _____________ two windows in my bedroom, too?
A: No, ______________. Your bedroom is small and has one window.
Exercise # 2. Rewrite these sentences, beginning with there.
1.- The Solar System contains nine planets. There are nine planets in the Solar
System.
2,.We have sixty hotels on our town. _____________________________________
3.- Manchester has two important football teams.____________________________
4.- China has a famous wall. _______________________________________________
5.- This cake contains no eggs. ___________________________________________
6.- The local zoo has lions, tigers and gorillas.
________________________________________________
Exercise # 3. Write there is / there isn’t/ Is there / There are/ There aren’t/ are there.
1.- Springfield isn’t an old town. There aren’t any old buildings.
2.- Look! __________ a picture of your brother in the newspaper.
3.- “Excuse me, _______________a bank near here.” Yes, at the end of the block.
4.- _____________ five people in my family: my parents, my two sisters and me.
5.- “How many students __________ in the class?” “Twenty”
6.- “Can we take a picture” “No, ___________ any film in the camera”
7.- __________any problems? No, everything is OK.
8.- __________ a bus downtown from the airport? “Yes. Every 20 minutes”
