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Read the sentences and look around your classroom. What can you
see? Change the sentences to make them true for you.

Example: There is a cat on the teacher's desk. No, there isn't. There
are pens and papers.

1. There is a bin next to the door.

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2. There are forty other students.

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3. There are three doors.

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4. There is a female teacher.

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5. There is an hour left in the lesson.

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6. There are fourteen tables and thirty chairs.

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7. There is a blackboard.

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8. There are four windows.

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9. There isn't a computer.

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10. There aren't many posters on the wall.

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11. There aren't many books.

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Activity Instructions
Language Focus: There is/there are
Vocabulary Focus: Unspecific
Level: Kids
Skill: Writing
Time: 20 minutes
Organisation: Students work individually
Stage: Controlled grammar writing practice
Suggested Method:

1. Copy one handout for each individual young learner and distribute them.

2. Focus students' attention on the instructions. Students read the sentences and
write a correction to make the grammar true for them. Refer the learners to the
example and demonstrate with other examples of your own.

3. Monitor the students, and when appropriate provide any necessary individual
language or vocabulary input.

4. Give the learners a warning when their time limit is about to expire and then
insist on pens down and heads up.

5. For feedback, options include the learners writing some/all of the answers on
the board or having them contribute their answers out loud.

6. Draw your learners' attention to any specific mistakes which seem prevalent
through the work and offer language input.

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