SIMPLE PAST - VERB "BE"

Simple Past "Verb Be"

I was in france in 1997

We will learn how to use the verb "BE" in the past.

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"BE" in the past. Affirmative / Negative / Questions

What are the forms of "BE" in the past?

Subject Pronouns and "BE" in the past

What is Simple Past?

Practice 1

Practice 2

Practice 3

What is Simple Past?

The past tense describes an action or a state that occurred in the past.

- I am a huge fan of Maradona (Simple Present) - I was a huge fan of Pele. (Simple Past) - They are at home today. (Simple Present) - They were at home yesterday. (Simple Past)

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What are the forms of "BE" in the past?

Positive

Ex.

Ex.

WAS / WERE

• She was a good student.

• We were sad last Friday.

Negative

Ex.

Ex.

WASN'T / WEREN'T

• He wasn't a good student.
• I was not sad yesterday.

• They weren´t at home.
• You were not in Paris.

WAS NOT / WERE NOT

Subject Pronouns and the use of "BE" in the past.

You can use was / wasn't with I, he , she or itYou can use were / weren't with you, we, they

"BE" in the past: Affirmative, Negative and Questions

Questions

Negative

Affirmative

Was John Lenon a singer?Yes, he was. Where were you last Friday?

Carl Sagan wasn´t a poet. Marie and Pierre Curie weren't mathematicians.

Peter was a greate policeman. John and Paul were composers.

Let´s practice

Use the correct form of "BE" in the past to complete the sentences. Then check your answers.

1. My father's a painter. My grand father _____ a painter, too.2. Todays is Monday. Yesterday ______ Sunday.3. Where are you now? Where _____ you yesterday?4. I'm in Italy. I _______ in Germany last Month.5. Is it hot today? ________ it hot yesterday?6. The café isn't open now. It ______ open this morning.7. My neighbors aren't at home. They _______ at home yesterday.8. We're in Rome now. We ______ in Venice yesterday.9. They're tired. They __________ tired last week.

Let´s practice

Use the correct form of "BE" in the past to complete the sentences. Then check your answers.

A: ________ you and Charlie at the concert last night?B: Yes, we___________ A: _____ it good? B: No, it ______. The singer ________ terrible. A: ________ the tickets expensive? B: Yes, they _________. A: Where ______ your mother born? B: She _____ born in Argentina in 1955. A: ________ her parents Argentinian? B: No, they _________. Her father _______ German and her mother ______ from Italy.

Thank you!

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