Lesson 32: There is a beautiful

place.
There is – There are
Objetivo: utilizar las estructuras there is – there are, para preguntar y responder
sobre cantidades.
 Formas “There is – There are”
HAY There are 12 healing herbs in my garden.
•En inglés,
“hay” se dice There is a wheelbarrow inside the garden
con dos shed.
palabras= there is there are There is a bench in the middle of her
“there + verbo garden.
TO BE” There are 5 different varieties of flowers in his
conjugado. garden.
singular plural There are different reasons to join the gardening
club.
“There is” se emplea cuando hablamos de nombres en There is a strong fence around their garden.
singular y there are cuando hablamos de nombres en
There are bees, butterflies in a flower garden.
plural.
and humming birds
Ejemplo:
There are 5 fertilizer brands in that store.
•Hay un niño. There is a boy.
•Hay un balón. There is a ball. There is a shovel in my backyard.
•Hay tres mujeres. There are three women.
•Hay dos bolsos. There are two bags.

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 Let’s practice
Look at the pictures and complete the sentences with “there is” or “there are”. Observe las imágenes y complete las
oraciones con “there is” o “there are”.

1.___________students in the classroom. 2. ___________a doctor in the room. 3. ___________a cat in the garden.

4. _____ colors in the pencil case and 5. ________ sushi on the table and 6. _______ different animals at the zoo and
______ a calculator too. ________ two sticks next to it. __________ an elephant playing with water.

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 Pasado y futuro
There were gardening in your house yesterday.
•Estas expresiones también se pueden utilizar en pasado gloves
y futuro, lo cual es muy sencillo porque sólo cambiamos la There was a watering can at home last week.
conjugación al verbo To Be.
There was a flower bed here before.

En el pasado: There were 4 new outside yesterday

Había flowerpots afternoon.
there was = para singular
There were = para el plural (Hubo) There was a lawn mower at the farm.

Ejemplo: There There was a sharp axe on the floor this morning.
Había un niño en el parque There was
were
There was a boy in the park. There were 3 bags of seeds in the car yesterday
morning.
Ejemplo: Singular Plural There was a recycling bin out to be emptied last
night.
Había tres mujeres hermosas
There was a green garden by the shed last week.
There were three beautiful women.
hose

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 There will be - futuro
There will be a gardening next month.
workshop
•En el futuro, se emplea la misma estructura para There will be emphasis on flower varieties.
singular y plural, entonces es muy fácil, ya que el verbo
To be en futuro es «WILL BE», es decir, la estructura es: There will be examples of good gardening
THERE WILL BE (habrá) practices.
There will be speakers from all over the
world.
Ejemplo: Habrá There will be different kind of this year.
seminars
•Habrá una fiesta. There will be new techniques on domestic
There will be a party. and ideas gardening.
There will be There will be miniature from Japan.
•Habrá dos payasos.
There will be two clowns. gardening
•Habrá un buen show. experts
Singular y plural There will be a botanical in september.
There will be a good show.
garden
workshop
There will be a wonderful on vegetable gardens
seminar next year.

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 “There is – there are - Negación
•En presente y en pasado, la forma negativa se realiza There is not a gardener around.
agregando la palabra NOT después del verbo «to be»
•No hay un pastel, hay tres. There are plant pots available.
not
There is not a cake, there are three.
There was a garden trowel on the table.
•No hay dos pasteles. not
There are not two cakes. There were speakers at the openning.
•No había una mesera, había cinco. not
There was not a waitress, there were five. There will interruptions in the class.
•No había dos meseras. not be
There were not two waitresses. There isn’t one ugly flower in the Italian garden
exhibition.
There aren’t exhibition stands on the street this year.
•En futuro, la forma negativa se realiza agregando la
palabra NOT después del auxiliar «Will» There a pink daisy in the flower vase
•No habrá un florero, habrá seis. wasn’t yesterday.
There will not be a flower vase, there will be six. There a lot of empty seats in the last conference.
•No habrá tres floreros. weren’t
There won’t information on roof gardens in the
There will not be three flower vases.
be seminar.

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 Let’s practice
1. Read the following text. Lea el siguiente texto.

In my town, there are a lot of places you can visit. There are expensive restaurants. I love to eat out
with my friends. There is a local cinema. I go there every time I can. There are two drugstores and there
is one hospital. There is a pet shop, and there is an amusement park. It gets very crowded on weekends.
There is a police station, and soon there will be a fire station. Near the bank, there was a museum
before. But no anymore because there will be an art gallery, they are building it.

2. Read the sentences and choose true or false. Lea las oraciones y escoja verdadero o falso.

True False
1. In my town, there are a lot of places to visit.
2. There is a sport store.
3. There are four drugstores.
4. There was a pet shop before.
5. There will be a police station.
6. There is a museum near the bank.

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 Pronunciation
1. La letra “g” tiene sonido (g) antes de consonante, de las vocales “a”, “o”, “u” y al final de las palabras.
Ejemplo:
Gard en (Gard en) Jardín
Green (Grin) Verde
Go (Gou) Ir
Gun (Gan) Pistola
Morn ing (Morn ing) Mañana
Ring (Ring) Anillo
King (King) Rey

2. Para pronunciar las combinaciones “GUE” – “GUI” en inglés podemos considerar las siguientes situaciones:

“GUE”: Al comienzo o en posición GUESS (gues) Adivinar

intermedia se pronuncia igual que en GUEST (guest) Huésped
español (gue). BAGUETTE (baguet) Barra de pan, lingote de algún metal
Ejemplo:

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 Pronunciation
Si “GUE” está al final de una palabra toma Vo-gue (Voug) Moda
sonido (g) y las vocales son mudas. Ro-gue (Roug) Pícaro
Ejemplo: Ton-gue (Tong) Lengua
Fa-tigue (Fatig) Fatiga
Excepciones: unguent (angüent) Pomada
argue (arguiu) Discutir

“GUI”: Usualmente se pronuncia igual que Guitar (Guitar) Guitarra

en español (gui). Guilt (Guilt) Culpa
Ejemplo: Guilty (Guilti) Culpable
Roguish (Rouguish) Picaresco
Guide (Gaid) Guiar
(gai) como en: Guile (Gail) Astucia, engaño
Be guile (Bi gail) Burlar
Guise (Gais) Aspecto
Anguine (Angüin) Anguina
(güi) como en:
Anguish (Angüish) Angustia
Linguist (Lingüist) Lingüísta, estudiante de idiomas

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 Pronunciation

La “g” sonido de consonante Gi ant (Yai ant) Gigante

(y) antes de las vocales “e” “i”. Generation (Yenereishon) Generación
Ejemplo: Gem (Yem) Gema
Gel (Yel) Gel

Excepciones: Algunas palabras Gift (Guift) Regalo

como: Get (Guet) Obtener
Target (Targuet) Blanco (de tiro al blanco)
Give (Guiv) Dar

La combinación “GE” al final de las Age (Eish) Edad

palabras suena (sh). Recordemos que Beige (Beich) Color crema
la “e” al final es muda. Large (Larch) Largo
Stage (Steich) Etapa

La “g” es muda en la combinación Sign (Sain) Firmar

“IGN” al final de las palabras. La vocal De sign (Di sain) Diseñar
“i” toma sonido abierto (ai). Re sign (Ri sain) Renunciar

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 Answer key

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1. There are students in the classroom. True False
1. In my town, there are a lot of √
2. There is a doctor in the room. places to visit.
2. There is a sport store. √
3. There is a cat in the garden.
3. There are four drugstores. √
4. There was a pet shop before. √
4. There are colors in the pencil case and
there is a calculator too. 5. There will be a police station. √
6. There is a museum near the √
5. There is sushi on the table and there bank.
are two sticks next to it.

6. There are different animals at the zoo and

there is an elephant playing with water.

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 English is easy
You can do it!
Autor de la metodología: Francisco González Cifuentes
Supervisión académica: Mayra Teresa Hurtado Mendoza
Diseño y adaptación: Diana Paola Pérez Muñoz
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