Past simple: time expressions

1. Professor: Victor Alvarez Morales
A time and a place
English 2
Unit 1

2. Importance
Achievement
At the end of the unit, the student identifies the grammatical
structures of the past in everyday situations.
This unit aims to strengthen and deepen learning the language
so that students continue to develop their communication skills.
It is of theoretical and practical and it is aimed at understanding
and production of texts, listening and oral production: past
simple of all verbs, prepositions of place,

3. General Content
• Where were you born?
• Party Time

4. Where were you born?

5. Vocabulary:
Preposition of time /
Places

6. Preposition of time
• At work
• At home
• At school
• At university
• At college
• At the top
• At the bottom
• At the side
• At reception
• In a car
• In a taxi
• In a helicopter
• In a boat
• In a lift
• In the
newspaper
• In the sky
• In a row
• In oxford street
• On a bus
• On a train
• On a plane
• On a ship
• On a bicycle
• On an elephant
• On a horse
• On television
• On the right
• On the way
at in on

7. Places
Party Work
Home

8. Places
The doctor´s The gym

9. Places
Vacation The beach

10. Places
A train A bus

11. Places
Class A restaurant

12. Places
Bed
The shower

13. Grammar:
Past Simple: “To Be” /
Past simple: time expressions

14. Past simple: to be
Singular
Plural
• I
• He
• She
• It
Was
• You
• They
• We
Were

15. Past simple: “to be”
Affirmative sentence:
Example:
 Irene was in the house.
 They were at the mall.
Subjet was/were complement

16. Past simple: “to be”
Negative sentence:
Example:
Irene wasn´t in the house.
They weren´t at the mall.
Subjet
wasn’t/
weren’t
complement

17. Past simple: “to be”
Yes/No Question:
Example:
 Was irene in the house.?
Yes, she was / No, she wasn´t
 Were they at the mall.?
Yes, they were / No, they weren´t
Was/were subjet complement?

18. Past simple: “to be”
Wh - Question:
Example:
 Why was irene in the house?
 Where were they last night?
Wh –
Word
Was/were subjet complement?

19. Past simple: time expressions
Last
Last night
Last Sunday
Last week
Last weekend
Last year
Ago
10 minutes ago
An hour ago
Three days ago
A week ago
A month ago
Yesterday
Yesterday
Yesterday
morning
Yesterday
afternoon
Yesterdar
evening

20. Exercises
Complete with was or were:
1. It _______ cloudy yesterday morning.
2. We ______excited about going to America.
3. We ______lucky. We won the first prize.
4. The dogs _______ in the park.
5. Jason _______ a great swimmer when he was young.

21. Party time

22. Vocabulary:
Party time

23. Party time
Concert Movie

24. Party time
Party Tv show Soccer game

25. Party time
Book festival Wedding

26. Party time
Tennis match Birthday

27. Grammar:
There was / There were

28. There was / there were:
There WAS… There WERE…
SINGULAR PLURAL
a/an
some
a lot of
some
a lot of
Affirmative sentence:
There
was/were
quantifier noun

29. Affirmative sentence
Examples:
There was an orange on the table.
There was some water in the cup.
There were a lot of kids in the garden.
There were two cats on the floor.

30. There was / there were:
There WASN´T… There WEREN´T…
SINGULAR PLURAL
a/an
any
a lot of
any
a lot of
Negative sentence:
There wasn’t
there weren´t
quantifier noun

31. Negative sentence
Examples:
There wasn´t an orange on the table.
There wasn´t any water in the cup.
There weren´t a lot of kids in the garden.
There weren’t any cats on the floor.

32. There was / there were:
SINGULAR PLURAL
a/an
any
a lot of
any
a lot of
Yes / No questions
Was there /
Were there
quantifier noun?
WAS there … WERE there…

33. Yes/no questions
Examples:
Was there an orange on the table?
Was there any water in the cup?
Were there a lot of kids in the garden?
Were there any cats on the floor?

34. Exercises
1. __________ a terrible earthquake in 2005.
2. __________ a boy riding a bike in the picture?
3. __________ any oranges left.
4. How many boys __________ in the garden?
5. __________ any wine in the bottle? No, ________ .
Choose there was or there were:

35. Conclusions
1. We use was and were in the past tense, but they are
used differently.
2. Was is used in the first person singular (I) and
the third person singular (he, she, it).
3. Were is used in the second person singular and
plural (you, your, yours) and first and third person
plural (we, they).

36. Thanks
Professor: Victor Alvarez Morales