Past simple verbo essere

1. Past Simple: Verb to BE

2. PAST
SIMPLE
Verb to BETraduce il passato
prossimo, il passato
remoto e
l’imperfetto italiano
Ex.: It was sunny on
Sunday (c’era il sole
domenica)
I was in Rome yesterday
(Sono stato a Roma ieri)
Dickens was a great
writer (Dickens fu un
grande scrittore)
Per azioni
avvenute nel
passato e
definitivamente
concluse
Espressioni di tempo:
- Yesterday (morning, afternoon,
evening)
- Last year (month, week..)
- Two years ( months, days..) ago
- In 1999
- On the third of March 2006

5. La forma affermativa del Past Simple di to BE ha due forme:
was (prima e terza persona singolare)
were (seconda p.s., prima, seconda e terza persona plurale)
I
He
She
It
was
Io ero/io sono stato/ io fui
You
We
You
They
were

8. La forma negativa del Past Simple di to BE ha due forme:
was not/wasn’t (prima e terza persona singolare)
were not/ weren’t (seconda p.s., prima, seconda e terza persona plurale)
I
He
She
It
was not/wasn’t
Io non ero/io non
sono stato/ io non fui
You
We
You
They
were not / weren’t

11. La forma interrogativa del Past Simple di to BE si forma
invertendo il verbo e il soggetto
VERB SUBJECT
Was
I
he
she
it
…… ?
Were
you
we
you
they
…… ?

12. Was Luke in London last Summer?
Yesterday Last
night
Two
months
ago
Last
Sunday
In 2014 Last
Summer
Yesterday
morning
at an Indian
restaurant
with friends
Sam
In London James
at the Louvre
museum
Ann
at the Tourist
Information
Office
Lucy
at my parents’
house for
dinner
Paul Andrew
at the club Charles
In Morocco Luke

16. Question word was/were soggetto
?

17. Communicative Activity