General English Level 1 GELEV1 Unit 01 Topic 01.doc  LANGUAGE FOCUS 12 The verb ‘to be’ Julie and Nat say: Julia: Hi. I'm Julia Nat: My name is Nat. Nat: Where are you from? Julia: Sydney is my hometown. Am, is and are parts of the verb to be. Information I’m = I am Look I am you we they are he she it is Examples 1. Read the examples. 2. Listen to the examples. 3. Practise saying the examples. 1. I am Chinese. 2. We are students. 3. They are friends. 4. You are a teacher. 5. Tom is a teacher. He is Australian 6. She is a student. She is Chinese. 9 QUESTLANGUAGE