Idioma extranjero: Ingles comercial

Unidad Didáctica: Comunicación empresarial.

Semana No 1: The Past (El tiempo pasado)
1. Grammar : Was/Were
Find and underline the verbs in the sentences below. Are the Verbs in the present or
the past?
1 His favourite sport was football.
2 His favourite actors were Jhon Cleese and Charles Chaplin.

2. Complete the past table below

Present Past
Shakira is Colombian. She Born in 1977
Her CDs are Very popular. Her Writing poems
favourite and writing
activities

3. We form the past simple of be like this:

Positive

Singular: I was
You were
He/ she / it was

Plural: We / you / they were

Negative FULL FORM SHORT FORM

I was not I wasn´t

You were not You weren´t
Singular:
He/ she / it was not He/ she / it wasn´t

Plural: We / you / they were not We / you / they weren´t

 Questions

Singular: Was I right?

Were you right?
Was he / she / it right?

Plural: Were / you / they right?

Here are some examples with was and were:

 I was in New York last week.
 We were at home yesterday evening.
 They weren´t late this morning.
 Was it a good film?

4. Practice

A. Complete the sentences using was or were.

 Today I am Happy but yesterday I was sad. (example)

1. Now Jane is at home but last week she ………… on holiday.

2. Today it´s raining but yesterday it…………..sunny.
3. This year there is a jazz festival here and last year there ………a pop festival.
4. Today Mr. Brown is at work buy yesterday he ………ill.
5. These days there are houses here but a hundred years ago there …….. trees.
6. Today I feel fine but yesterday I …… in bed all day.
7. My mother is a manageress now but she…….just a shop assistant last year.
8. This summer we are staying at home but last summer we ……. In Greece.

5. Past forms

5.1 We form the past simple of regular verbs by adding - ed to the verb:
for example:

Walk ------ walked

Open ------opened
Watch ---- watched
Ask ------ asked
6. Write the simple past :

Arrive: ……… Change ……… Cook……..

Hate…………. Live………….. Pass ……..

7. There are some exceptions :

 Verbs ending with -e + d

Live ----- Lived
Like ----- Liked

 Verbs ending with a consonant and -y y----- ied

Apply ----- applied
Try ----- tried

 Verbs ending one vowel and one consonant: -p p----pped

Stop ------ stopped
Plan ------ planned

8. Write de simple past

Stay ……… Annoy ……… Hurry……..

Study ……… Carry………….. Buy ……..

9. Many verbs have an irregular past simple forms:

Do --- did
Take -----took
Come ---- came
Find ------ found

10. Write de simple past of irregular verbs:

Drink ……… Break ……… Get ……..

Eat ……… Speak ………….. Give ……..
11. We make simple past negatives with did not ---- didn´t (short form)

Positive Negative

He cleaned the car. He did not clean the car

He started early. He did not start early.
She saw you. She didn´t see you.

12. Simple past questions

Statement + Question ?
He cleaned the car Did he clean the car?
The class went to Rome Where did the class go?

13. Positive short answer and negative short answer

Yes, I / you / we / they / he / she / it did

No, I / you / we / they / he / she / it didn´t

14. Circle the correct form

 I take / took my father to Spain last week.

 Did you heard / heard me?

1. Did Jhon bring / brought his wife with him ?

2. When did Ann start / starts school?
3. I see / saw Erick in the supermarket yesterday.
4. Why did you leave / left you job.
5. Sorry I forget / forgot to buy milk.
6. Dereck learn / learnt English when he was young.
7. Where did that woman keep / kept all her money.
 15. Exercises Past simple regular and irregular verbs
Read the newspaper article. Fill in the gaps with the pasta simple form of the verbs
in the word box

Divorce want to (x2) try to love decide marry travel say

The leader of popular dance group “Wave” Bob Jones divorced his wife Tina last week
after only three months of marriage. “ She ___________ have children, and I __________
travel round the world. So we ___________ to get a divorce two weeks ago,” he _______
yesterday. The couple __________ last June and ____________ to Mexico for their
honeymoon. “ We __________ each other, but when we _________ live together in
London, it was impossible”.

Complete the story of Hashiko. Use the past simple form of the verbs in the box.
Grammar in context

Matsuo Basho wrote more than 1,000

three lines poems called haiku. He
chose topics from nature, daily life and
human emotions. He became one of
Japan’s most famous poets, and his
work established haiku as an important
art form.

Matsuo Basho was born near Kyoto in

1644. He did not want to become a
samurai warrior like his father. Instead,
he moved to Edo present day Tokyo
and studied poetry. By 1681, he had
many students and admirers.

Basho, however, was restless. Starting

in 1684, he travelled on foot and on
horseback all over Japan. Sometimes
his friends joined him wrote poetry
together. Travel was difficult in the
seventeenth century, and Basho often
got sick. He died in 1694, during a
journey to Osaka. At that time he had
2,000 students.

Complete :
a. Basho _______a poet.
b. He __________ born in 1644.
c. He __________ famous during his lifetime.
d. Basho _________ many visitors.
e. He_____________ a lot.
f. Basho__________more than 1,000 poems.
g. He ______ in 1694.