Evolution New Edition

1.C. In pairs, ask and answer these questions to your partner. Give as much information
as possible:
a) How was your weekend?
b) What did you do yesterday
c) Where did you go last weekend?
d) Did you visit any friends?
e) Did you watch any film/series this week?
1.D. GRAMMAR FOCUS: Simple Past of To Be
AFFIRMATIVE NEGATIVE INTERROGATIVE
I was sick.
You were there.
It was great.
It wasn’t a good party.
They weren’t happy at all.
There weren’t students here.
How was your weekend?
Were you there?
Were they at the party?
My weekend was terrible.
He was stressed out.
It was not a happy weekend.
They weren’t at my birthday
party.
How was your weekend?
How was everything with the
doctor?
V Now, come up with sentences of your own. Follow the examples:
Yesterday I was in my aunt’s house. Were you in your parents’ house yesterday?
2.A. Complete the dialogues with the past tense of to be, then practice them with your
partner.
1. A: Were you at the meeting yesterday?
B: No, I ___________. I_____________at the hospital with my sister.
A: How ___________she?
B: Yesterday she___________very well but now she is ok.
2. A: Why___________ your parents at school last night?
B: I don’t know. I didn’t know they___________there.
A:___________ you there, too?
B: No. I ___________in a snack bar next to school.
2.B. Now, create your own sentences in the past.
a) When I was a Child I ______________________________________________________________
b) Last Year, I _____________________________________________________________________
c) When I was in elementary school I____________________________________________________
d) My friends were__________________________________________________________________
e) My parents were _________________________________________________________________
f) My best friend wasn’t______________________________________________________________
g) My house wasn’t_________________________________________________________________
h) My neighborhood was_____________________________________________________________
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