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ORAL DRILL: Short Answers - Present Tense
Remind students:
Short Answers must have THREE words: 
[Yes/No] + [subject] + [verb].
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I jokingly tell my students "THREE IS THE MAGIC NUMBER!"
Simple Present Tense with be/ do / have
Short answers with YES
Short answers with NO
(singular) Are you?
  (singular) Do I?
Are they?
Is he?
Have we?
(plural) Do you?
Does he?
Has it?
Are we?
Have you?
Is it?
Does she?
Have they?
Does it?
Is she?
Do we?
Has he?
(singular) Do you?
(point to yourself) Am I?
Do they?
Has she?
Yes, I am.
Yes, I do.
Yes, they are.
Yes, he is.
Yes, we have.
Yes, we do.
Yes, he does.
Yes, it has.
Yes, we are.
Yes, we have.
Yes, it is.
Yes, she does.
Yes, they have.
Yes, it does.
Yes, she is.
Yes, we do.
Yes, he has.
Yes, I do.
Yes, you are.
Yes, they do.
Yes, she has.
(singular) Are you?
(singular) Do I?
Are they?
Is he?
Have we?
(plural) Do you?
Does he?
Has it?
Are we?
Have you?
Is it?
Does she?
Have they?
Does it?
Is she?
Do we?
Has he?
(singular) Do you?
(point to yourself) Am I?
Do they?
Has she?
No, I'm not.
No, I don't.
No, they aren't.
No, he isn't.
No, we haven't.
No, we don't.
No, he doesn't.
No, it hasn't.
No, we aren't.
No, we haven't.
No, it isn't.
No, she doesn't.
No, they haven't.
No, it doesn't.
No, she isn't.
No, we don't.
No, he hasn't.
No, I don't.
No, you aren't.
No, they don't.
No, she hasn't.
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No, they're not.
No, he's not.
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No, we're not.
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No, it's not.
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No, she's not.
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No, you're not.
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NOTES:
Questions with 'you' as the subject:
When indicating singular, point to one student. (Student should reply with 'I')
When indicating plural, point to several students. (Students should reply with 'we')

Questions with 'I' as the subject:
Point to yourself. (Students should reply with 'you')

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