Academia Britânica de Évora

Level 2

 Past Simple: To Be
1. Complete the table. Use was, were, wasn’t or weren’t.

Affirmative And Negative

I / He / She / It was / (1) ________
famous.
We / You / They (2) ________ / (3) ________
Questions
(4) ________ I / he / she /it
famous?
Were we / you / they
Short Answers
Yes, I / he / she / it (5) ________. No, I / he / she / it wasn’t.
Yes, you / we / they were. No, you / we / they (6) ________.

2. Complete the text. Use was, were and wasn’t.

Robbie Williams

Robbie Williams was in the pop group Take That. There (1) ___________ five people in
Take That. They (2) ___________ number 1 seven times in Britain in the 1990s. Robbie (3)
___________ on TV hundreds of times. They (4) ___________ superstars!

In the British Pop Awards in 1999, Robbie (5) ___________ the winner of three prizes:
best single, best video and best male singer. He (6 not) ___________ with Take That. He
(7) ___________ a solo singer.

3. Complete the dialogue with was, were and wasn’t.

Patrick: Were you at the cinema with Paul yesterday?

Janice: Yes, I (1) ________.

Patrick: (2) ________ it a good film?

Janice: The special effects (3) ________ excellent, but the story (4) ________ very good.

Patrick: Who (5) ________ in it?

Janice: Keanu Reeves and Angelina Jolie.

Patrick: (6) ________ they good?

Janice: Yes, they (7) ________. All the actors (8) ________ good.
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There was / There were

There was a film called The Gladiator. (Singular)

There were five singers in this group. (Plural)

4. Complete the sentences with there was or there were.

1. ___________ a great film on TV last night.

2. ___________ two aliens from another planet.

3. They were in Rio de Janeiro and ___________ a carnival.

4. ___________ a detective from the FBI.

5. He wanted to find the aliens, but ___________ a problem.

6. ___________ thousands of people at the carnival – in strange costumes!