Nillireth Presutti Halub

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 To use the verb to be in past properly
 To describe places in the past.

 To narrate past events.

 To talk about present and past experiences.

 To talk about lifestyle and living conditions in the past.

 To talk about past abilities .
 In the Past

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Simple Past verb To Be -4-

Questions and answers about the past. -5-6- -5-6-

Regular and Irregular Verbs differences

Reading -7-8-
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Simple Past other verbs vocabulary. -8-9-

Past Simple tense

(Affirmative,
Past Simplenegative, interrogative
Regular and and short
Irregular verbs answers)
Practice. -10-
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 Past Simple
Verb To Be Past Simple
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AFFIRMATIVE NEGATIVE
Grammar structure: S + V + C Grammar Structure : S + AUX + NOT + C INTERROGATIVE 
Full Form Short form Full form Short form Grammar Structure :
AUX + S + C ?
I was sleepy. I was sleepy I was not sleepy. I wasn’t Was I sleepy?
You were angry.
You’re angry You were not angry. You weren’t Were you angry?
He was hungry.
He’s hungry He was not hungry. He wasn’t Was he hungry?
She was rich.
It was quiet.
She’s rich She was not rich. She wasn’t Was she rich ?
We were at It’s quiet. Was it quiet ?
school.
It was not quiet. It wasn’t
We’re at school Were we at school?
You were early. We were not at school. We weren’t
They’re at home. Were they at home?
They were at They were not at They weren’t  
home.
home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3FdGPehN-E
 Past Simple Was / Were
verb To Be

1. There were few people

2. There wasn’t a lot of traffic
3. There were some old buildings
4. There wasn’t any zebra crossings
5. There wasn’t a great number of
tourists
6. There wasn’t any traffic lights
7. There was a horse-drawn carriage
8. There weren’t buses
9. There weren’t a lot of stores.

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Question Words
and the verb To
Be
INTERROGATIVE  4
Verb To Be questions and
Short Answers: Questions with Wh words :Grammar Structure
Grammar Structure :
AUX + S + C ?

Was I sleepy?
Questions Possible Answers:
Were you angry?
Yes, I, he, she, it was. Because they were late.
Was he hungry? No, I, he she, it wasn’t
I was at the university.
Was she rich ?
She was nervous yesterday.
Was it quiet ?
They were tourists
Were we at school?
Yes, we, you, they were.
Were they at home? No, we, you, they weren’t
 
 Was / Were
practice exercise
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Write the past simple of the verb TO BE to complete the sentences. Check the punctuation: Some sentences are
negative or interrogative. Click to listen to
the answers
1. They _______(be)ill.
2. You _______(not be) tired.
3. The children _____(not be)_ quiet.
4. Max ___________ in Honda last week.
5. _______she at home for dinner?
6. The water _________(be)cold.
7. ________there a good film on TV yesterday?
8. We ________(not be ) in Brazil last winter.
9. Belinda and Filomena ______ at school this morning.
10. I _______here when the it happened.
11. The children_______(not be)_at the cinema yesterday.
12. _______the weather good last week?
Was / Were Reading Comprehension:
practice exercise
A . Read the text and fill in the blanks with “was-were” D. Read the dialogues and fill in the blanks
Gina: How ------- the picnic yesterday?
Yesterday ______ great for me. Because my father ______ back to home. My father ------- in
Peter: It ------- fantastic.
Spain last weekend for the business. It ------- the first time when we ______ apart. It ______-a Gina: What ------- the weather like? ------- it
tiring weekend for him and he______very busy. My mother and I ______worried about him _______it sunny?
because he ______ afraid of travelling by plane. After a short flight, he _____ safe and happy. Peter: Well, it ------- sunny in the morning, but when we got there it
Because he ------- not afraid of travelling by plane anymore. When he ______ in Spain, though ------- cloudy.
it______late, he phoned us at night as he______ busy. He ______ there for three days but it Gina: ------- Mary and her family with you? She ------ so excited about
the picnic.
-----______like a decade. We missed him so much. We ______ very glad to see him back.
Peter: No, she -------. She ------- ill.
There ________presents in his bags for us. There ------- a scarf for my mother. It ------- silk. Gina: What a pity! ------- it serious?
There ______a camera for me. It _____ a great gift for me. Peter: No, it -------. She -------
B)Answer these questions according down with flue but she is OK now.
C) Match the questions with the answers a. I was ill.
to the text Gina: How about your uncle?
1) What was the weather like yesterday? b.She was happy.
Peter: He ------- with us and we had a great time together. So, how -------
1. Where was Sandra’s father last 2) How was Marry last night? c. It was boring.
your weekend?
weekend? 3) When was the concert? d. It was yesterday.
Gina: It ------- boring as always.
2. Why was yesterday great for her? 4) Was your mother ill yesterday? e. Yes, she was.
I ------- at home during the weekend.
5) Where were you yesterday evening? f. That was a plate.
3. Why was he there? My father ------- abroad and my mother ------- at work.
6) Where was Tina yesterday? g. She was at work.
4. Who was worried about him? 7) Who was that old woman near the car? hNo, it wasn’t.
Peter: Next time we may go together!
5. Why were they worried about him? 8) Where was your father last weekend? i. It was sunny.
Gina: I hope so….
6. Was he busy when he was in Spain?9) How was the movie? j. I was in Istanbul.
7. Was his flight long? 10) What was that? k. He was in Spain.
8. What was there in his bags for his l. She was my aunt.
family?
9. What was the mother’s present?
10. What was Sandra’s present? https://en.islcollective.com/resources/search_result?Tags=was+were+reading&Level
Regular verbs REGULAR VERBS
in Past Simple
Regular verbs take “ED” to form the Simple Past and the Past Participle.
to listen to these verbs go to : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j4pLoZlI2s
REGULAR
Regular Verbs : Past Simple
VERBS

SPELLING RULES EXAMPLES

Base form + ed Walk walked
Play played
Verbs ending in “e” + d Like liked
Move moved
Verbs ending in “y” preceded by a Study studied
consonant: Change “ y” i + ed Carry carried

Verbs ending in a consonant Plan planned

preceded by a vowel : Double the Stop stopped
consonant + ed
Irregular Verbs
Past Simple

Irregular verbs change to form the Past Simple or Past Participle. Some other irregular verbs stay the same ,
Check out some irregular verbs on the chart below: 7 (no changes) to form these tenses.
Check out some of them on the chart
below:

To listen: Go to: http://www.learningchocolate.com/content/irregular-verbs-2-0

 Past Simple Regular and Irregular verbs practice

Fill in the blanks with the verb in brackets in the correct simple past form. Note that some of these verbs are
REGULAR and some are IRREGULAR.

Emily Carr, British Columbia's most famous artist, ____________ (be) born in 1871. Her parents ___________(die)
when she was still a teenager. She ____________(study) art in San Francisco and Paris, but when she ___________
(come) back to Victoria, she ___________ (keep) a house called "The House of All Sorts", where she ___________
(be) the landlady. Many years later, she ___________ (begin) painting again. To find subjects for her paintings,
she ___________ (take) trips into the forests of British Columbia, and she often ___________ (meet) with the First
Nations people and ___________ (paint) them too. Emily Carr also ___________ (write) several books, and
she ___________ (win) the Governor General's Award for one of them.
Click to listen to
the answers

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/irpast2.htm
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Support Material
https://www.learnenglish.de/vocabulary/rooms.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsmlxP8T720
https://agendaweb.org/
http://www.learningchocolate.com/content/irregular-verbs-2-0
http://englishwithannie.com/how-to-pronounce-words-that-end-in-ed/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3FdGPehN-E

Gráficos y tablas numerados del 1 al 7 diseñados por Nillireth Presutti Halub. Dic 2017