Describe how your town looked like in the past

_{My town 100 years ago}

_{There is a big park in my town.}

_{There are good restaurants in my town.}

This is my house.

Multiple Choice

There ______ a big living room in my house.

• is

• are

Multiple Choice

There _______ a small kitchen in my house.

• is

• are

Multiple Choice

There ______ 2 bathrooms in my house.

• is

• are

Multiple Choice

There ______ 3 bedrooms in my house.

• is

• are

Multiple Choice

There_____ a study in my house.

• is

• are

Multiple Choice

There _____ a dining room in my house.

• is

• are

My town 100 years ago

Last year

Last month

Last July

Last week

Last weekend

Last Sunday

A year ago

A month ago

A week ago

5 days ago

2 hours ago

Yesterday

Yesterday morning

Yesterday afternoon

Yesterday evening

WATCH A VIDEO ABOUT THE VERB "BE" AND SAY HOW WE USE IT IN THE PAST

Present: am/is/are

Past: was/were

Singular + was

Plural + were

_{I was in a restaurant yesterday.}

_{You were with me.}

_{My friend Ann was here 5 minutes ago.}

_{They were in the cinema last weekend.}

_{We were in Cali two weeks ago.}

I wasn`t at school yesterday.

Mike wasn`t here last week.

You weren`t there.

We weren`t in the restaurant last Sunday.

Was he in the office yesterday?

Were you on the beach last Sunday?

Where were you last night?

When were you in Cartagena?

Multiple Choice

Tom ______ in Peru last year.

• was

• were

Multiple Choice

I ________ at work last week.

• was

• were

Multiple Choice

You _____ in Cali in 2017.

• was

• were

Multiple Choice

My parents ______ at my birthday party last weekend.

• was

• were

Multiple Choice

____ they at school yesterday?

• Was

• Were

Multiple Choice

Paul____ not here last month.

• was

• were

Multiple Choice

______ Ann at the city tour yesterday?

• Was

• Were

Watch the video about Mark and Jane and say where they were.

Open Ended

Where were you yesterday at 5 pm?

Open Ended

When were you in a supermarket?

Open Ended

Where were you last Sunday at noon?

Open Ended

When were you in a bakery?

Open Ended

Where were you 3 hours ago?

What is the difference?

There was + singular

There were + plural

There was a table in the room.

There was a clock on the wall.

There were pictures on the wall.

There were books on the shelves.

Open Ended

What was there in your house that you don´t have now?

In my house there was/were...

There were trams in Bogota.

There were twin towers in New York.

There was Colossus of Rhodes in Greece.

Open Ended

What was there in your town?

In my town there was/were...

What characteristics to describe towns do you remember?

Characteristics

beautiful / modern / old / big / small / colourful / touristy / hot / romantic / historical / interesting

Vocabulary

Expensive - Cheap

Clean - Dirty

Unknown - Famous/Popular

Quiet - Noisy

Safe - Dangerous

Fantastic

Polluted

Cozy

Multiple Choice

This town is...

• clean

• dirty

Multiple Choice

This town is...

• clean

• dirty

Multiple Choice

This town is...

• safe

• dangerous

Multiple Choice

This city is ...

• quiet

• noisy

Multiple Choice

This city .....

• has clean air.

• is polluted.

Multiple Choice

This city is ...

• famous

• unknown

Multiple Choice

This town is ...

• dirty

• cozy

Multiple Choice

This city is ....

• expensive

• cheap

Bogota was small, now it is big.

Bogota was dangerous, now it is safe.

Bogota was cheap, now it is expensive.

Bogota was unknown, now it is popular with tourists.

Multiple Choice

The town was quiet but now it is _______

• safe

• noisy

• cheap

Multiple Choice

The city was safe but now it is _______.

• dangerous

• quiet

• expensive

Multiple Choice

The town was unknown but now it is ________.

• famous

• cheap

• cozy

Multiple Choice

The town was dirty but now it is _______.

• polluted

• fantastic

• clean

Open Ended

Write about your town.

My town was _______ but now it is ______.

_{Bogota 100 years ago}

Bogota is a big city now but 100 years ago it was a small city. There were trams in the city. Bogota was very cold. Today Colombian capital is a popular touristic destination and it is safe but in the past it was unknown and very dangerous. In the past there were a lot of parks in Bogota and there were forests around the city.

Homework

Write a description of your town: how different it was in the past. Use the verb "to be" in the past, "There was/were" phrase and the vocabulary of the class.