Was/Were, Could/Couldn’t

Was/Were, Could/Couldn’t

(Language Awareness)

Pulse 2/Page 25/English Book 3

Lesson 36

Success Criteria:

By the end of the lesson, I will be able to:

• Study the table given and fill in the blanks with was/wasn’t and were in Task 1.              

• Complete the questions with was or were in Task 2.

• Study the notes about could/couldn't and complete the tasks. 

• Fill in 7/14 blanks correctly with was/were/could/couldn’t in the text given about Charles Dickens.

Complete the following questions with was or were.

Example: Were you interested in books five years ago?

Multiple Select

___________ the Harry Potter films good?

• Was

• Were

Multiple Select

__________ Sherlock Holmes a real person?

• Was

• Were

Multiple Select

___________ any of Shakespeare's plays comedies?

• Was

• Were

LOOK!

there's (there is) / there are -------> there was / there were

There's a film festival this week.

There was a film festival last week.

Complete the conversation with

could or couldn't.

Fill in the Blank

Jenny: Was the play good last night?

John: Yes, but ______________ see very well.

Fill in the Blank

John: We ______________ get seats near the front.

Fill in the Blank

Jenny: __________ you understand it, though? I think Shakespeare's difficult.

Fill in the Blank

John: Ye, we could. This play was in modern English so we ____________ easily follow it.

Next task....

Write questions with could.

Example: Could you read when you were four?

Open Ended

ride a bicycle / when / six?

Open Ended

use a computer / when / eight?

Open Ended

speak English / when / ten?

Open Ended

cook / when / 12?

Complete the following text with the past simple form of the verbs in brackets.

refer to the passage (Task 6) in Pulse 2 page 25.

Multiple Select

Who ___________ Charles Dickens?

• is

• was

• are

• were

Multiple Select

He was an English writer who __________ from 1812 to 1870.

• live

• lived

• living

• lives

Multiple Select

He ________ 15 novels, including A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist.

• write

• writes

• wrote

• writing

Multiple Select

What did he write about?

A lot of his books __________ about poor people.

• is

• was

• are

• were

Multiple Select

They didn't have an easy life in the 19th century.

Dickens ____________ people should live in bad conditions and he tried to make people think about these problems.

• do not think

• does not think

• did not think

• don't think

Multiple Select

Why did people like his books?

Because they ___________ exciting stories and interesting characters.

• has

• had

• have

• having

Multiple Select

Everyone loved them even people who __________ read!

They paid other people to read the books to them!

• couldn't

• could

• can

• can't