English 2

Unit 1

A time and a place

Professor: Victor Alvarez Morales

Achievement
At the end of the unit, the student identifies the grammatical
structures of the past in everyday situations.

Importance
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,
General Content

• Where were you born?

• Party Time
Where were you born?
 Vocabulary:
Preposition of time /
Places
 Preposition of time

at in on

• At work • In a car • On a bus

• At home • In a taxi • On a train
• At school • In a helicopter • On a plane
• At university • In a boat • On a ship
• At college • In a lift • On a bicycle
• At the top • In the • On an elephant
• At the bottom newspaper • On a horse
• At the side • In the sky • On television
• At reception • In a row • On the right
• In oxford street • On the way
 Places

Party Work

Home
 Places

The doctor´s The gym

 Places

Vacation The beach

 Places

A train A bus
 Places

Class A restaurant
 Places

Bed

The shower
 Grammar:
Past Simple: “To Be” /
Past simple: time expressions
 Past simple: to be

• I
• He
Was Singular
• She
• It

• You
• They Were Plural
• We
 Past simple: “to be”
Affirmative sentence:

Subjet was/were complement

Example:

 Irene was in the house.

 They were at the mall.

 Past simple: “to be”
Negative sentence:

wasn’t/
Subjet complement
weren’t

Example:

Irene wasn´t in the house.

They weren´t at the mall.

 Past simple: “to be”
Yes/No Question:

Was/were subjet complement?

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
 Past simple: “to be”
Wh - Question:

Wh –
Was/were subjet complement?
Word

Example:

 Why was irene in the house?

 Where were they last night?

Past simple: time expressions

Last Ago Yesterday

Last night 10 minutes ago Yesterday

Last Sunday An hour ago Yesterday

morning
Last week Three days ago
Yesterday
Last weekend A week ago afternoon

Yesterdar
Last year A month ago evening
 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.

Party time
Vocabulary:
Party time
 Party time

Concert Movie
 Party time

Party Tv show Soccer game

 Party time

Book festival Wedding

 Party time

Tennis match Birthday

 Grammar:
There was / There were
 There was / there were:
Affirmative sentence:

a/an some
There WAS… some There WERE…
a lot of
a lot of

SINGULAR PLURAL

There
quantifier noun
was/were
 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.

 There was / there were:
Negative sentence:

a/an any
There WASN´T… any There WEREN´T…
a lot of
a lot of

SINGULAR PLURAL

There wasn’t
quantifier noun
there weren´t
 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.

 There was / there were:
Yes / No questions

a/an any
WAS there … any WERE there…
a lot of
a lot of

SINGULAR PLURAL

Was there /
quantifier noun?
Were there
 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?

 Exercises

Choose there was or there were:

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, ________ .

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).
 Thanks
Professor: Victor Alvarez Morales