All About People

by Pilarenglish

Henry VIII

Oscar Wilde

William Shakespeare

Objetivs:

• Feelings describing

• Adjectives of people

description

• Past tense: to be

• There was/ Therewere: expression of quantity in the past.

• Talking about pastevents.

Vocabulary: Feelings

Hungry

Scared

Angry

Happy

Excited

Sad

Tired

Thirsty

Surprised

Bored

Past tense: to be

AFFIRMATIVE NEGATIVE INTERROGATIVE

I was

You were

He was

She was

It was

We were

You were

They were

I was not/wasn’t

You were not/weren’t

He was not/wasn’t

She was not/wasn’t

It was not/wasn’t

We were not/weren’t

You were not/weren’t

They were not/weren’t

Was I?

Were you?

Was he?

Was she?

Was it?

Were we?

Were you?

Were they?

SHORT ANSWERS

Yes, I was.

No, I wasn’t.

I was happy yesterday.

Everybody was at the party.

My friends were in the park.

In the negatives not is used,

the contraction is wasn’t y weren’t.

Susan and Paul weren’t hungry.

It wasn’t a sunny day yesterday.

In interrogative / Question forms was and were start the sentence.

In the short answers with (I, you, they, etc.) there is a form was/were/wasn’t

or weren’t.

Were your parents at the cinema last Sunday? No, they weren’t.

Was your mother at work yesterday? Yes, she was.

(+) Subject + was/were + complements

I was in New York.

The oranges were in the fridge.

(-) Subject + wasn’t/weren’t + complements

My cousins weren’t tired after the game.

She wasn’t at home.

(?) [Wh-item] Was/Were + subject + complements?

Was your car blue? No, it wasn’t.

Why were you and your friends at the park?

AFFIRMATIVE NEGATIVE INTERROGATIVE

There was a pencil.

There were some boys.

There wasn’t a pencil.

There weren’t any

boys.

Was there a pencil?

Was there any juice?

Were there any books?

SHORT ANSWERS

Yes, there was.

No , there weren’t.

WORD ORDER: Adjectives

The black cat was near the old house.

There was an enormous shark at the aquarium.

The house was enchanted.