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Grammar Past to be Negativa I was not He was not She was not It was not We were not You were not They were not Negativa Contrada I wasnt He wasnt She wasnt It wasnt We werent You werent They werent Interrogativa Was I ? Was he ? Was she ? Was it ? Were we ? Were you ? Were they ?

Afirmativa I was He was She was It was We were You were They were

Recordamos el uso del verbo to be: - Equivale a ser o estar. - Es un verbo auxiliar, por lo tanto se niega solo; es decir, no necesita un verbo auxiliar. Ej.: isnt. - En castellano, se traduce por tener cuando se habla de aos, hambre, sed. Ej.: I was hungry. - Se usa para hacer oraciones copulativas en pasado. Ej.: My grandfather was Portuguese. - Para decir nac, se usa de manera fija I was born. I. Completa las frases escribiendo la forma correcta del verbo to be en pasado:

My father ______________(not) at home at five o'clock. We ____________ at the cinema yesterday. The movie ___________very boring. I __________late, but my boyfriend _____________angry. There ____________(not) any food for dinner. There ____________ four students waiting for the library to open.

I __________ born in Alcntara. When I __________ a child, I ____________ living in my village and it ___________ quite different from now. There _____________ 2,000 inhabitants in 1960. The school _____________full of children and there __________ ten teachers working there, but there ____________ not any medical centre and there _______________ not any electrician. There ___________not any flats. 1.2. There was, there were Negativa There wasnt There werent Interrogativa Was there ? Were there ? Respuesta corta Yes, there was./ No, there wasnt. Yes, there were./ No, there werent.

Afirmativa There was There were

- Son las formas en pasado de there is y there are, por lo tanto significa hubo y haba. - Usamos there was para singular y there were para plural. Ej.: There was a school in my village. There wasnt any swimming-pool. - There were some farmers. There werent any shops. 1.3. Past continuous - Se forma con el pasado del verbo to be (was, were) y el verbo en -ing. - Usamos el pasado continuo para actividades y acciones del pasado. Ej.: I was studying yesterday. - Cualquier oracin en pasado llevar expresiones de tiempo como yesterday, last week/month/year, in 1972, at + hora, on + da semana, two years ago (hace dos aos), while (mientras). What were you doing yesterday at four oclock? (Para preguntar qu estbamos haciendo). I was studying in the library. (Para decir qu estbamos haciendo)

II.

Escribe las siguientes oraciones en negativa:

I was very tired last weekend. They were taking photographs. There was a party on Saturday night. There were many messages in my answering machine. It was raining while I was sleeping. III. Ordena las palabras para escribir oraciones interrogativas:

yesterday / at / were / you / four / where? was / ago / two / the / like / what / weather / days? doing / were / you / what? were / where / born / you? Jane /1 / may / speak / to? IV. Traduce las siguientes oraciones:

Cuando era nia, era muy feliz. Anoche no estuve en casa. Haba muchos coches en la calle. Estuve leyendo un libro muy interesante. Tengo mucha sed.