SIMPLE PAST : BE

WAS – WERE
I YOU
SHE WAS WE WERE
HE THEY
WASN’T WEREN’T
IT
 WAS – WERE
Juan
Gabriel
He was Mexican.
He was a singer
and composer.
He was born in
1950.
 SIMPLE PAST

? WAS – WERE
I YOU
SHE WE
WAS WERE
HE THEY
IT
 Was she a model?
Amy Winehouse

-No, she wasn’t.

Was she famous?

-Yes, she was.
 Where was she from?
-She was from the UK
When was she born?
- She was born in 1983

Why was she famous?

-Because she was a singer.
Where was Where was Where was Where was
she born? he born? she born? he born?

She was born in He was born in She was born in He was born in
Paris, France Mogadishu, St Michael, Hong Kong,
Somalia Barbados China
YEARS 1760 : seventeen sixty
1999: nineteen ninety-nine
1900 -1909
Exception *1900: nineteen hundred
. 1901: nineteen oh one
Exception 2000 -2009
2000: two thousand
2001: two thousand and one
2005: two thousand and five
2010 - …
2010:
twenty ten
2018 :
twenty eighteen
LISTENING 
 When were they born?
What year were they born?

1990 1983 1988 1954

She was born She was born She was born She was born
in 1990 in 1983 in 1988 in 1954
YEARS When were they born?
1452

1564

1879

1881

1926

1935

1940

1985
In pairs
A: WHERE WERE YOU BORN?
B: I was born in Trujillo/ Lima/
Madrid/ Bogota…
A: WHEN WERE YOU BORN?
B: I was born in 1993/2000
A: Who is
Fernando
B: He’s m ?
PEOPLE IN MY FAMILY: y father
A: Where
-FERNANDO. was … bor
-AMALIA B: He was n?
born in Po
-ANALU. A: When roto
was … bor
B: He was n?
born in 19
44
 HE WAS BORN
IN THE SKY!

 1. What year was Alfie born? In 2007

 2. Was he born at home or in
the air?
In the air

 3. How old was his mother?

 4. Who was Carol Miller?
 5. Why were Nicola and
Dominic lucky?
She was 31
She was the flight
attendant.
Because these people
saved their baby’s life
was s n ’ t
wa
was
n ’t
were were wer
e
BOOK!

wasn’t was

was
wasn’t
Were
weren’t
BEFORE NOW

He was short
He is tall

He was fat
He is fit

He was
unhappy
He is happy
 Was or Were EXTRA PRACTICE 1

was
When _______ your father born?
were happy yesterday.
They _______
was the concert?
What time _____
was with his friends last night.
Rick ______
We _______
were in this class last month.
were you in the morning?
Where ______
Was your exam easy?
_____
How ______
was your weekend?
Were your parents at home yesterday?
______
Remember:

She gets up at 7 am. They watch TV at 11 pm

She gets up at 7 in
They watch TV at night
the morning.
 Personality Adjectives
Quiet Independent Sociable
Fantastic ( = Brilliant) Lucky Warm
Friendly Interested Natural
Technical Amazing Funny
 Haile «Geb»

Spyros Louis
 Answer the questions

He’s from Ethiopia

Geb
100
10 km away
For 10 000 meters race
In London in 2002
ORDINAL NUMBERS

Order
Dates
Cardinal Ordinal
numbers numbers
ONE FIRST

TWO SECOND

THREE THIRD
FOUR FOURTH
FIVE FIFTH
 SIX SIXTH
SEVEN SEVENTH
EIGHT EIGHTH
10th 12th 8th 7th
1st 2nd 11th 9th

3rd 4th 6th

We use ordinal numbers for dates :

Birthdays New Year’s Eve

Dec. 31st
Aug. 14th

Christmas Saint Valentine’s Day

Feb. 14th
Dec. 25th
 HOW TO SAY DATES :

1st October The first of October

October 1st October the first

28th July Oct 12th 1st Jan

25th Dec 2nd Nov April 22nd

March 8th Sept 23rd July 6th

 IMPORTANT DATES IN MY LIFE
Aug. 14th
A: WHY IS…
14TH / AUG. IMPORTANT TO YOU?

24TH/ DEC B: BECAUSE IT IS…

18TH / JUN
21st / DEC. My father’s birthday.
My favourite celebration.

Examples Easter/Mother’s day/ Labor day

Halloween/ Independence days
My holidays start.
My anniversary with my bf/gf
r g
a g
b b
s s
c b
v h
B G H F
D L I C
E K A J
THERE IS / THERE ARE

was wasn’t

were weren’t
 Now and Then 
In the 90’s there weren’t
smartphones.
Now, there are new
models every 6 months
15 years ago,
there wasn’t a mall
in my city.
Now, there are
some malls.
 Now and Then 
There are a lot of
robberies in our city now,
but there weren’t many
robberies 10 years ago.

Before CV- 19, there

wasn’t much online
homework.
There’s more online
homework now.
12.

was

were

were were
weren’t were were
were
were
weren’t
OLYMPIC GAMES

Europe Africa America

Asia Oceania
 French
Jan 1st 1863 in Paris
All sport for
all people
The 5 continents
together

Every color represents a continent

You can find at least one of these colors in a flag of
every country in the world
 BOOK:

1. When was he born?

2. Where was he born?
3. What was his job?
4. What was his dream?
SIMONE BILES
This is Simone
…………………...Biles. She
was born in Ohio, USA.
…………………..
March 14, 1997.
She was born on…………………..
is
She …………..an Artistic Gymnast.
was
She………………….National champion
three years in a row, in 2014, 2015,
2016.
was
She …………… the winner in the
Olympic Games in 2016.
is
Simone ……………..now one of the best
gymnasts in the world, but her life
was
…………….. really hard when she
was
…………..a were
child. Her parents ……………..
was
drug-addicts. Luckily, she ……………..
adopted by her grandparents.
VOCABULARY PLUS
 OPPOSITE ADJECTIVES

BORING INTERESTING
DANGEROUS SAFE
BEAUTIFUL HORRIBLE
DIFFERENT SIMILAR
TRADITIONAL
MODERN
DIFFICULT
EASY
 MODIFIERS

It’s really It’s very It’s quite It’s a bit

difficult difficult difficult difficult
 What’s the weather like?

It isn’t windy It is a bit windy

It is quite windy
It is very windy

It is really windy Don’t go out

Ask and answer in pairs

What do you think of…?

- I think it is alright.
- I think they are boring.
- … is nice.
- … are awful.
OPINIONS : In pairs

WHAT DO
YOU THINK I THINK IT IS
OF CLASSICAL BEAUTIFUL
MUSIC?

WHAT DO YOU I THINK THEY

THINK ABOUT ARE
HORROR HORRIBLE!
MOVIES?
 *Sports:
No ball
*Sports:
*Sports:
-ing
team / a ball
*Games
 a y
go do pl do go
la y
pla y p go
2 love

5 strange quite

6 different
1 really interesting
3 amazing
4
horrible
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