
I, he, she, it – was
You, we, they – were
For first person singular and third person singular, use the word was. In all other cases, use were.
She was at home yesterday morning.
They were absent last week.
Asking question with the verb “to be” in past:
In order to ask a question, we need to use inversion of subject and to be (was/were): was/were+subject...?
In order to ask a question, we need to use inversion of subject and to be (was/were): was/were+subject...?
Was she at home yesterday?
Were they absent last week?
Using the negative form of “to be” in past simple:
In negative sentences, add the adverb not and put it after was/were.
Remember that most of the time the contraction (shortened form) is used in negative sentences: wasn’t = was not/weren’t = were not.
He wasn’t at the cinema with us last week.
We weren’t at home the previous Sunday.
I wasn’t hungry this morning.
We weren’t at home the previous Sunday.
I wasn’t hungry this morning.
Common words used to talk about the past: Yesterday- the day before yesterday= two days before- Last Sunday/ week /year...- 1 hour/5 days/3 months ago- When I was a child… / When we were in college…- in+year: in 2020/1999...

Conversation 1:
Conversation 2:
Conversation 3:
Conversation 4:

Talking
about past events (to be) |
|
When
was …born? Where
were….born? |
Who
was …? What
were…? |
Conversation 1
Man: How was the movie?
Woman: It was really good.
Man: Was it scary?
Woman: Yes, it was really scary.
Man: Nice. Was it crowded?
Woman: No, it wasn’t. There weren’t many people there, suprisingly.
Conversation 2
Man: Where were you last night?
Woman: I was at work.
Man: Really? I was at your shop. You weren’t there.
Woman: No, I was in the back working.
Man: You were?
Woman: Really! I was there.


Verb |
Noun |
Adjective |
Adverb |
succeed |
success |
successful |
successfully |
act |
action/acting/actor/actress |
active |
actively |
sing |
song/singer |
ᴓ |
ᴓ |
ᴓ |
music |
musical |
musically |
paint |
painter/painting |
painted |
ᴓ |
design |
design/designer |
designed/designer/designing |
ᴓ |
create |
creation/creator/creative/creativity creature/creationism/creationist |
creative/ creationist |
creatively |
inspire |
inspiration |
inspired/inspiring |
ᴓ |
imagine |
imagination |
imaginative/imaginary |
imaginatively |

Favourite artist:
Cat Stevens was born Steven Demetre Georgiou; since 1978 he has been known as Yusuf Islam. He was born in London in July 1948. His father was a Greek Cypriot and his mother was Swedish. In the 1990s Yusuf also began producing educational recordings on his own label, Mountain of Light, beginning in 1995 with The Life of the Last Prophet. From 2000 he concentrated on albums for a younger audience and produced some of the most popular CDs for children in the Muslim world including A is for Allah and I Look I See. One of his famous song is Father and Son. I like his songs because of the beauty of his music which is gentle, smooth and melodious, and of course the lyrics which are meaningful and thoughtful.



What did you do last Sunday?
Tony:
I stayed at home all day. In the morning I cleaned my room and revised my lessons. In the afternoon, I watched classical music on TV. In the evening, I surfed the Internet.
Bob:
We visited my grandparents. My grandmother cooked a big dinner. We listened to music and laughed a lot. I played some cards with my cousins.
Meg:
I stayed at home and helped my father. We worked in the garden. My father painted the gate and we planted some flowers. My mother prepared lunch. After lunch, we relaxed.




N.B. Students should pay attention to double consonants when the verb is short: 1 vowel+1 consonant: 2 consonants.

watched: did not watch/ didn't watch
stopped: did not stop/ didn't stop...


Did you listen to music yesterday?
Did your father repair the car last week?

A: Where did they travel last summer holiday?
B: They travelled to Agadir.
A:Who did you visit last week?
B: We visited our grandparents.













Jake: Hi, Laura. Did you have a good weekend?
Laura: It was OK. I bought a new game. I played it all weekend.
Jake: You played a video game all weekend?
Laura: Yeah. What about you? What did you do?
Jake: We went to the match on Saturday.
Laura: That's cool. Was it good?
Jake: Yeah. Why don't you come with us next time?
Laura: OK. Why not? Did you do anything else?
Jake: We had a barbecue on Sunday.
Laura: How was it?
Jake: It was terrible. It rained heavily!


Sculpture

Ceramics
Guernica

Cubism art (Pablo Picasso)
An art dealer is a person or company that buys and sells works of art.
Impressionism art

Writing sample: p. 87
Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French microbiologist and chemist.[1] He and his wife, Marie, are best known for their experiments supporting the germ theory of disease, and he is also known for his vaccinations, most notably the first vaccine against rabies. He made many discoveries in the field of chemistry, including the asymmetry (different shapes) of crystals. He is also well known for his way of keeping milk and wine from going sour for longer periods of time. That process is called pasteurization. It is when the milk and or wine is put under about 161 Fahrenheit (72 Celsius) for fifteen seconds.
Pasteur's later work on diseases included work on chicken cholera. During this work, Pasteur noticed how a culture of the responsible bacteria had spoiled, and it failed to induce the disease in some chickens, which he was infecting, with the disease.
Reference: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur

Listen and Read: p. 88
day off: a day when you do not work.
downtown: in or to the central part of a city.






Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French microbiologist and chemist.[1] He and his wife, Marie, are best known for their experiments supporting the germ theory of disease, and he is also known for his vaccinations, most notably the first vaccine against rabies. He made many discoveries in the field of chemistry, including the asymmetry (different shapes) of crystals. He is also well known for his way of keeping milk and wine from going sour for longer periods of time. That process is called pasteurization. It is when the milk and or wine is put under about 161 Fahrenheit (72 Celsius) for fifteen seconds.
Pasteur's later work on diseases included work on chicken cholera. During this work, Pasteur noticed how a culture of the responsible bacteria had spoiled, and it failed to induce the disease in some chickens, which he was infecting, with the disease.
Reference: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur




Her car broke down yesterday.
An art exhibition
They are rushing to work.
A violin







Short biography of Um Kalthum:
Oum Kalthoum (Arabic: أم كلثوم, other English spellings include: Umm Kulthum, Om Kalthoum, Oum Kalsoum, Oum Kalthum, Omm Kolsoum, Umm Kolthoum, Um Kalthoom) (1904–1975) was an Egyptian singer and musician.
Oum Kalthoum was born in Tamay ez-Zahayra village in El Senbellawein, Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt. Her birth date is controversial, either 31 December 1898, 31 December 1904 or 4 May, 1904. She died on 3rd February, 1975.
Reference: https://www.last.fm/music/Oum+Kalthoum/+wiki






funeral