Life

Beginner Unit 1b
be: he/she/it + is

He’s Ernesto. He’s from Salvador. It’s a She’s Lana. She’s from Dubrovnik and
city in Brazil. she’s Croatian.

Presentation

Affirmative

I am a teacher. I ‘m Ernesto.
You are Lana. You ‘re a student.
He is American. He ‘s English.
She is Brazilian. She ‘s from Croatia.
It is a country. It ‘s a city.

TIP Use he’s, she’s, it’s for speaking.

 Key vocabulary    Countries and nationalities: England/English, America/American, Croatia/Croatian, Brazil/

Brazilian, China/ Chinese, Germany/German, France/French, Mexico/Mexican

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Exercises

Exercises
1 Complete the sentences with he, she or it.

Paul is a student. Biyu is Chinese.

1 ’s in Cologne. 3 ’s from Guangzhou.
2 ’s a city in Germany. 4 ’s in China.
2 Write sentences with he or she and the countries in the box.

Brazil  Egypt  Italy  the USA

1  I'm from Brazil.      2  3  4 

3 Write the nationalities of the people in Exercise 2.

1 He's Brazilian. 2 3 4
4 Complete the sentences with am, are or is.
1 Cairo a city in Egypt. 5 Hello. I a teacher.
2 I a student. 6 You from Paris. You
3 You from New York. French.
4 Marco Italian. He 7 She Mexican.
from Milan. 8 Life an English book.
5 Write sentences with the words in the table.
He ‘m a Canada.
I ‘s from Canadian.
You ‘s book.
She ‘re a teacher.
It ‘s a student.

1 He ’s Canadian . 4 She .
2 I . 5 It .
3 You .
6 Write sentences about a friend. Use he or she.
1 . (name)
2 . (country)
3 . (nationality)
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