PAST SIMPLE (TO BE) “WAS
WERE”
“was/were is the past form of “am,is,are”
Positive (+) and
negative(-)
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I
He/She/It
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Was +
wasn’t -
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at home last night.
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We
You
They
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Were +
weren’t -
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Yes/No questions
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Was
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I
he/she/it
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at work?
at the party?
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Were
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we
you
they
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Yes, he was
No, he wasn’t
Yes; I was/
No,I wasn’t. Yes, we were
No, they weren’t . . .
Wh- question
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Where
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was
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I
he/she/it
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yesterday?
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were
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we
you
they
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This week the weather is warm, but it was cold last week.
We are in Çanakkale now, but we were in İstanbul two years
ago.
I was at
university in 1999.
Present Past
today
……………….yesterday
this week
……………….last week
this month
……………….last month
this year ……………….last year
tonight
……………….last night
this morning …..……. yesterday morning
this afternoon …..……. yesterday afternoon
this evening …..……. yesterday
evening
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…………….three hours ago
……………six years ago
……………a month ago
……………in 1914, in 1453
Rewrite the sentences
with was/were
I’m really tired
Is that story interesting?
Our teacher isn’t busy.
That is an easy question
Is Jim right or wrong?
My parents are worried about my brother.
We are poor, but we are happy.
Underline the
adjectives that are true for you when you were a child.
1.I was lazy/hardworking when I was a child.
2.I was stubborn/easy going when I was a child.
3.I was good/bad at history when I was a
child.
4.I was serious/funny when I was a child.
5.I was always
late/early for school when I was a
child.
6.I was naughty/well behaved when I was a
child.
7.I was weak/strong when I was a child.
8.I was ill/healthy when I was a child.
9.I was fat/thin when I was a child.
10.Life was boring/interesting when I was a child.
Rewrite the sentences
with “was/were”.Change the time expressions.
Charles isn’t at
home today.
She is with her
parents this week.
I am very busy this morning.
Our homework is
very easy today.
Are you in town tonight?
The children aren’t at
the zoo this weekend.
Is Ahmet Taşçı the
wrestling champion this year?
Ask and answer the
questions. Use “in, on, at” in the sentences where necessary.
Mike/home/last night (the concert)
________________________________?
_______________________________________.
she/Europe/1990 (Australia)
________________________________?
_______________________________________.
the last lesson/interesting (boring)
________________________________?
_______________________________________.
Bill/phone/half an hour ago (shower)
________________________________?
_______________________________________.
he/bed/until 11 pm. (outside)
________________________________?
_______________________________________.
Mr Smith/holiday/two weeks ago (work)
________________________________?
_______________________________________.
his marks/good/last term (bad)
________________________________?
_______________________________________.
the newspapers/table/yesterday morning (sofa)
Ask and answer
questions. Use in, on, at to complete
the sentences.
e.g Ted/ last
week (İzmir)
Where was Ted last week?
He was in İzmir.
You/last week (Uludağ)
________________________________?
_______________________________________.
He/1994 (the army)
________________________________?
_______________________________________.
Dolly/ yesterday mornig (the bank)
________________________________?
_______________________________________.
They/two hours ago (a party)
________________________________?
_______________________________________.
Mrs Wilson/last Monday (a meeting)
________________________________?
_______________________________________.
There was/ There
were
Forty years ago, there
weren’t any fast food restaurants,but today there are so many.
There are a lot
of books in the library now, but last week there weren’t any.
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Put a tick (√) next to the statements that are true.
A hundred years ago
There wasn’t a terrible earthquake. _______
There were a lot of cars. _______
There weren’t any wars. _______
There was pollution. _______
There weren’t any computers _______
There were telephones everywhere _______
Ask and answer the
questions. Use in,on or at to complete
the sentnces when necessary.
e.g a fire/your
house/last week (-)
Was there a fire in your house last week?
No, there wasn’t
1.50 years
ago/colour TVs (+)
_______________________________________
2.flood/the
motorway/two days ago (+)
_______________________________________
3.a power-cut
yesterday/the city/lastnight (-)
_______________________________________
4.people/beach/last
weekend (+)
_______________________________________
5.a
test/yesterday (+)
_______________________________________
a good film/TV/last night. (-)
_______________________________________
6.a lot of
diseases/ the world/40 years ago (+)
_______________________________________
7.warning
signs/the road (-)
Ask questions about
the underlined words.
I was in Ürgüp last summer.
_____________________________________?
Her hair was black four years ago.
_____________________________________?
Atatürk was born in 1881.
_____________________________________?
Jim’s father was in Ankara for a conference.
_____________________________________?
The meeting was at nine o’clock in the morning.
_____________________________________?
The1936 Olympics was in Berlin, in Germany.
_____________________________________?
There was a lighter near the oven.
_____________________________________?
A hamburger was ₤1.50 last year.
_____________________________________?
She was worried about her daughter because she was out
all night.
_____________________________________?
The little girl was very naughty.
_____________________________________?
Answer the following
questions
1.Were you a
happy baby?
2.Who was your
best friend at primary school?
3.Who was Mehmet
Akif Ersoy?
4.Who was the
first president of Turkey?
5.Where were you
last night?
6.What was your
favourite programme when you were a child?
7.Who was the
first man on the moon?
8.Were the
dinosaurs large animals?
9.How old were
you in 1990?
10.How many
students were there in your class last year?
11.Where and When
were you born?
12.What was the
weather like yesterday?
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