There (be) present simple (there is /are) + there is a (единственное число) there are some (множественное число) +, - , ? a / an ед. ч. - there is not a (единственное число) there are not any (множественное число) + some мн. ч., неисчис. ? is there a …? (единственное число) - , ? any мн. ч., неисчис. are there any …? (множественное число) past simple. (there was/were) + there was a (единственное число) there were some (множественное число) - there was not a (единственное число) there were not any (множественное число) ? was there a …? (единственное число) were there any …? (множественное число) future simple. (there will be) + there will be a (единственное число) there will be some (множественное число) - there won’t (will not) be ? will there be …? exercise 1. put is or are into the gaps. 1. there some people in the office. 2. there a word processor. 3. there a telephone on the table. 4. there not any flowers in the classroom. 5. there not any chinese students in our group. 6. there not a video recorder here. 7. today there a lot of cars and there not much peace and quiet in our village. 8. there some interesting articles in this newspaper. 9. there __ not any students in the classroom. it is empty. exercise 2. put was, were or will be into the gaps. 1. there many students at the lecture yesterday. 2. there not any sport centres in our town last year. 3. there a few colonies on mars in the future. 4. there a modern computer class at our faculty next year. 5. there a few english students at the party last night. 6. there not any high buildings in my native town fifty years ago. 7. there not many cars and there not much noise in our village forty years ago. 8. there not any computers a hundred years ago. exercise 3. put was, were or will be into the gaps. 1. there not many tourists in novosibirsk a year ago. 2. there two lectures tomorrow. 3. there trains a hundred years ago, but there not any mobiles phones. 4. there any telephone calls for me yesterday? 5. there some colonies on mars in the year 2050. 6. i don’t think there any wars in the future. 7. in (через) ten years there some new plants in this region. 8. there a letter on my table yesterday evening. exercise 4. complete the sentences with some, any or a/an. 1. are there german students in your class? 2. there are dictionaries in the cupboard. 3. there are pens on the table. 4. are there trees near the university? 5. is there cafe? 6. there isn’t armchair here, but there are chairs. 7. are there textbooks? 8. downstairs there was small kitchen and beautiful dining-room. 9. were there bedrooms upstairs? 10. there will be exchange students at our university next term. 11. were there young engineers in your office last year? 12. there was large dining-room in his grandparents’ house. exercise 5. translate from russian into english using ‘there be’. 1. кто в этой комнате? 2. какие книги были на полке? 3. какие тексты в этом учебнике? 4. в нашей семье трое детей. 5. наша квартира большая. в ней две комнаты и кухня. 6. что лежит на столе? – ручка и карандаш. 7. вечером в парке не было детей. 8. на нашем заводе будет врач. 9. в моей компании будет три новых менеджера в следующем году. 10. на моем столе нет документов.
