Support Material / Material de apoyo

Learning activity 2 / Actividad de aprendizaje 2

Presentation / Presentación

A. To express who someone was or where someone was, we use the verb be in
past tense. / Para expresar quien fue alguien o en dónde estuvo, usamos la
conjugación del verbo be en pasado.

a. Affirmative form / Forma afirmativa

I was at the supermarket.

Subject Verb in past Complement

b. Negative form / Forma negativa

I was not at the supermarket.

Subject Verb in past Complement

c. Interrogative form / Forma interrogativa

Yes, she was /

Was She at the supermarket?
No, she wasn’t.
Verb in past Subject Complement Short answers

B. Telling the date / Expresando la fecha

There is a difference when you write the date and when you say it. / Hay una
diferencia cuando usted escribe la fecha y cuando usted dice la fecha.

7th March
22 / 06 / 1939 December 15th 2013
1600

If you write
 December the fifteen
The seventh The twenty
two thousand and
of March second of June
thirteen or December
sixteen nineteen thirty-
the fifteen twenty
hundred. nine.
thirteen.
You say

Fuente de imágenes: SENA

Are there
strawberries?
C. Simple past is used to express actions that started and ended in the past. / El
pasado simple es usado para expresar acciones que iniciaron y terminaron en
el pasado.

a. Affirmative form / Forma afirmativa

I Studied English at Sena.

Subject Verb in past Complement

b. Negative form / Forma negativa

I did not (didn’t) Study English at Sena.

Subject Did not or didn’t Verb in simple form Complement

c. Interrogative form / Forma interrogativa

Yes, I did. / No,

Did you study English at Sena?
I didn’t.
Verb in simple
Did Subject complement Short answers
form

Practice / Práctica

A. Tick (√) if the sentence is correct or cross (X) if it is wrong. Correct the wrong
ones: / Seleccione (√) si la oración está bien o (X) si está mal. Corrija las
oraciones incorrectas.

1. I were born in February. √

__________________________________________________

√
2. They were in the supermarket.
__________________________________________________

3. It was expensive. X
__ THAT WAS VERY EXPENSIVE

4. I didn’t studied math. √

__________________________________________________

5. Did they brought an umbrella? √

__________________________________________________

6. You was in my English class. √

__________________________________________________

7. She were a nurse at the hospital. X

She a nurse at the hospital

8. Did she do her homework? √

__________________________________________________

9. I didn’t wrote the report for history class.

__________________________________________________

10. Were he your teacher? X

Were your teacher

Write the following verbs in past form. / Escriba los siguientes verbos en
pasado.
 Be FUE / ESTUVO HE WAS

Become BECAME B. Match the dates in numbers

with their corresponding in
Break BROKE
letters. / Relacione las fechas
Bring BROUGHT en números con su
Clean CLEANED correspondiente en letras.
Cook COOKED
Draw DREW 1. 06 / 19 / 1635
Dream DREAMT __7_ December twenty-eight,
two thousand and thirteen.
Drink DRUNK / DRANK
Eat EATEN / ATE 2. 02 / 17 / 1854
Listen LIST __3_ September thirty,
Paint PAINTED nineteen ninety-one.
Play PLAYED
Say SAID 3. 09 / 30 / 1991
See SEEN _4__ January six, two
thousand.
Sleep SLEPT
Speak SPOKEN
4. 01 / 06 / 2000
Stop STOPPED __6_ October twenty-second,
Take TAKEN two thousand and five.
Talk TALKED
Teach TAUGHT 5. 03 / 25 / 1295
Think THOUGHT _5__ March twenty-five,
Watch WATCHED twelve ninety-five.
Write WRITTEN
6. 10 / 22 / 2005
__2_ February seventeen, eighteen fifty-four.

7. 12 / 28 / 2013 __8_ August twenty- third, twenty twenty-five.

8. 08 / 23 / 2025 __1_ June nineteen, sixteen thirty- five.

D. Answer the following questions. / Responda las siguiente preguntas.

1. What did you do yesterday?

Yesterday I did my homework at home and I was busy with English work
and reviewing for today's class

2. What did you do on the weekend?

 This weekend I was where my father-in-law and I paid him a visit but I was
also busy with the jobs that I have

3. Where were you born?

I was born on May 10, nineteen hundred and ninety-eight in the department
of Huila, Neiva municipality

4. Where did you go last Friday?

Last Friday I went to the Malvinas Hospital to check my pregnancy

5. What was the last thing you bought?

The last thing I bought was a makeup watercolor and some powders and lipsticks
and a change of clothes

Production / Producción

A. Look at the pictures. Write sentences about what the person did on vacation. /
Mire las imágenes. Escriba oraciones sobre lo que hizo la persona en
vacaciones.

1.

Andres and his mother Josef went on a trip

2.

then they went to a hotel

 3.

they planned to go to the beach to sunbathe

4.

Andres went swimming in the sea to look at what's

in it

5.

Andres and Josef started playing volleyball

6.

Josef sat down to have a coconut

juice
7.

Andres began to sip

 8.

Andres and Josef went salsa dancing on their

vacation

9.

Andres and Josef went to a restaurant to meet an

old study friend

Fuente de imágenes: SENA

Are there
strawberries?

Document control / Control del documento

Name Position Dependence Date

Theme expert
Dirección de
Author Ricardo Asesor English
Formación August
Aristizabal Dot Works -
Profesional. 2014
Salinas Programa de
Dirección General
Bilingüismo

Copy editor – Centro

Luz Clarena September
Adaptation Línea de Agroindustrial.
Arias 2014
Producción Regional Quindío