Unit 7: All About People

Oscar Wilde
Henry VIII William Shakespeare
Objetivos:
• There was/ There • Feelings describing
were: expression of • Adjectives of people
quantity in the past. description

• Talking about past • Past tense: to be

events.
Vocabulary: Feelings

Hungry
Scared
Angry
Happy
Excited
Sad
Tired
Thirsty
Surprised
Bored
 Past tense: to be

AFFIRMATIVE NEGATIVE INTERROGATIVE

I was I was not/wasn’t Was I?

You were You were not/weren’t Were you?
He was He was not/wasn’t Was he?
She was She was not/wasn’t Was she?
It was It was not/wasn’t Was it?
We were We were not/weren’t Were we? SHORT ANSWERS
You were You were not/weren’t Were you?
Yes, I was.
They were They were not/weren’t Were they? No, I wasn’t.
 La forma del pasado de to be se traduce como “Yo
era/estaba”. En afirmativa usamos la forma was para las
personas “I, he, she, it”, mientras que se usa were para
“you, we, they”.

I was happy yesterday.

Everybody was at the party.
My friends were in the park.
En negativa, añadimos not a las formas verbales,
que se pueden contraer en wasn’t y weren’t.

Susan and Paul weren’t hungry.

It wasn’t a sunny day yesterday.
 En interrogativa alteramos el orden entre el sujeto y el verbo y
situamos was y were al principio de la frase. Para las respuestas cortas
usamos el pronombre sujeto al que nos refiramos (I, you, they, etc.) y la
forma was/were/wasn’t o weren’t.

Were your parents at the cinema last Sunday? No, they weren’t.
Was your mother at work yesterday? Yes, she was.
 (+) Subject + was/were + complements
I was in New York.
The oranges were in the fridge.
(-) Subject + wasn’t/weren’t + complements
My cousins weren’t tired after the game.
She wasn’t at home.
(?) [Wh-item] Was/Were + subject + complements?
Was your car blue? No, it wasn’t.
Why were you and your friends at the park?
 AFFIRMATIVE NEGATIVE INTERROGATIVE

Was there a pencil?

There was a pencil. There wasn’t a pencil. Was there any juice?
There were some boys. There weren’t any Were there any books?
boys.
SHORT ANSWERS
Yes, there was.
No , there weren’t.
 There was / There were son las formas de pasado de there is /there
are. En este caso se traducen por “había, hubo”. Como vemos en inglés hay
dos formas: una para singular, y otra para plural. Recuerda que en español
sólo se usa el verbo haber en singular.

- There was se usa para expresar que había una cosa, persona, animal, ya
sea un sustantivo contable o incontable.
There was a pencil under the desk. There was some milk in the fridge.

- There were en cambio se usa para hablar de que había dos o más cosas,
personas, etc. En esta caso sólo podremos utilizar sustantivos contables.
There were many people at the concert. There were four bags in the class.
Para construir la forma negativa añadimos not que junto a
was/were se contrae en wasn’t / weren’t.

There weren’t any classes last week. There wasn’t any food.

Las preguntas empiezan con was / were, es decir, se invierte el

orden. Los wh-items irán siempre al principio de la pregunta. Las
respuestas cortas vuelven al orden normal y si son negativas
usaremos las formas contraídas.
Was there a party last night? Was there any sugar?
Were there any books in the bag?
 WORD ORDER: Adjectives
El orden de las palabras no es igual en inglés que en castellano, ya que

en inglés los adjetivos se suelen colocar delante de los sustantivos. Aunque

también van detrás del verbo to be.

The black cat was near the old house.

There was an enormous shark at the aquarium.

The house was enchanted.