Study the table

Форма всех типов предложений с оборотом THERE + TO BE
	+	–	?
Present Ind.	There is/are	There is/are not (isn’t / aren’t)	Is/Are there …
Past Ind.	There was/were	There was/were not (wasn’t / weren’t)	Was/were there …
Future Ind.	There will be	There will not be (won’t be)	Will there be …

Example: There is a car in the garage. – В гараже стоит машина.

There were not many chairs in the sitting-room. – В гостиной было немного стульев.

Will there be much snow in the winter? – Зимой будет много снега?

Fill in the gaps with suitable noun-phrases

a dean’s office; a computer; a lot of students; English-Russian dictionaries; a lot of snow; a few exams; many historical places; a meeting; old houses; a library; not much furniture; modern conveniences; journals; English classes

1. There is ___ on the second floor. 2. There are ___ in the corridor. 3. There is ___ in the classroom. 4. There are ___ in the bookcase. 5. There are ___ in our town. 6. There are ___ in the library. 7. There was ___ on the ground last winter. 8. There were ___ last week. 9. There was ___ at our University. 10. There will be ___ this spring. 11. There were ___ in this street. 12. There is ___ in the room. 13. There are all ___ in our house. 14. There is ___ on the first floor of this building.

Ask questions to get information. Use the words in brackets

Example: There are (were) many churches in this town (your town).

Are –

there many churches in your town?

Were –

A: 1. There are (were) a lot of bridges over the Thames (the Tura). 2. There are (were) a lot of monuments in Tobolsk (in your town). 3. There is (was) a computer class on the ground floor (a dean’s office). 4. There are (were) fifteen departments at our University (at our Institute). 5. There are (were) a lot of English-Russian dictionaries in our library (in the reading-hall).

Example: There will be a lecture on Mathematical analysis.

Will there be a lecture on Mathematical analysis?

B: 1. There will be five exams this spring (next term). 2. There will be many dictionaries in our library (our reading-hall). 3. There will be many students at the lecture (at the seminar). 4. There will be a seminar next week (in a week). 5. There will be a meeting in this room (in the hall).

Disagree with the following statements

Example: There will be a lecture on Theoretical Mechanics.

There will not be a lecture on Theoretical Mechanics or

There will be no lecture on Theoretical Mechanics.

1. There is a text on this page. 2. There is a secretary at the dean’s office. 3. There were English classes yesterday. 4. There were some students at the conference. 5. There will be some mistakes in my test. 6. There will be a church in this street. 7. There will be many exams next summer.

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