Let me tell you about the moment I actually understood how to teach the verb to be. It was my second year in the classroom, I had a group of twenty-three ESL students, and I had just spent twenty minutes explaining the difference between am, is, and are using my best whiteboard diagrams. I was proud of that lesson. Then a student raised her hand and asked, “But teacher — why we say he is and not he are?”
She was right to ask. I hadn’t given her a reason she could hold onto. I’d given her a rule. What she needed was verb to be worksheets — structured, repeated, varied practice that would let the pattern sink in through doing, not just listening.
That was the day I became obsessed with finding and creating the best verb to be exercises I could. This guide is everything I’ve learned since.
am is are Worksheets – Positive Sentences
am not – isn´t – aren´t Negative Sentences
am – is- are Questions Sentences
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