This document contains a series of sentences with missing words to be completed with either "was" or "were". It asks the reader to choose the correct option to complete sentences describing various situations in the past involving people, places, and things. It also contains a photo from Piccadilly Circus in 1896 and asks the reader to identify accurate descriptions of features visible in the historic photo compared to the present day.

1. . Choose was or were.
She sad
yesterday.
We at the Zoo
yesterday.
Mum and Dad in
a restaurant.
They in the
disco club last night.
You late for
school yesterday.
I very hungry.
It cold
yesterday.
I in London in
2008.
She pretty
when she was young.
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2. Sally a good
pupil.
He born in May. Our teacher
very tired yesterday.
Tom and
Bill bes
t friends.
My cousin at
school.
The children
excited yesterday.
2. Complete
with was or were.
It cloudy yesterday morning. We exci
ted about
going to
America.
We lucky. We won the first prize. The dogs
in the
park.
Jason a great swimmer when he was young. They at
the beach
last Sunday.
She the prettiest girl in our class. I very ill
last week.
I sad because I broke Mrs Smith´s window . He born
in 1995.
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3. There was
an apple in the bowl.
There were
three apples
in the
bowl.
3. Complete
with there was or there were.
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4. a bank near my house. ten children in the park.
two kittens in the basket. a small shop between the bank and
the supermarket.
many bottles of milk in the
fridge.
some pencils on the desk.
only one book on the table. an old man in the street.
a lot of noise in the classroom. a huge crocodile in the river
This is a very famous place in London called
Piccadilly Circus. The photo was taken in 1896. Look
at the photo and choose the correct
option.
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5. hundreds of
people.
any traffic lights.
a double-decker
bus.
a flag on top
of the building on the left.
many horse-drawn
carriages.
a lot of traffic.
any zebra
crossings.
a roundabout.
some old buildings. a great number of
tourists.
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6. Picadilly Circus now .
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7. Picadilly Circus now .
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