Past Tense

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
ENGLISH HANDOUT
NAME: ___________________________________LEVEL: 2º_____ DATE: ___________________
GRAMMAR : PAST OF TO BE PAST TENSE
1. - Complete Hannah’s letter. Use was orwere.

28 November
Dear Grant,
My holiday in America was terrible!The plane___________________ late, and my uncle
______________at the airport for six hours. He _______________ really angry!
My uncle’s house is quite big, but my bedroom _______________ verysmall. And my bed
______________ old and uncomfortable.
The baseball match _______________ interesting and the hamburgers _____________
Great. My cousins ________________ really boring – they are onlysix and seven years old!

Love,
Hannah

2. - Read Hannah’s letter in Exercise 1 again. Write short answers.
• Was Hannah’s holidaygreat? _________________

• Was Hannah’s plane late? _________________

• Was her uncle at the airport for six hours? _______________________

• Was he happy?_________________

• Was Hannah’s bedroom small? ________________

• Was her bed new? ________________

• Was the baseball match interesting?________________________

• Were her cousins interesting? ________________________
3. - Complete the text. Use the past simple of the verbs in brackets.


Tom ___________________ (visit) hisfriends Mick and Laura last weekend. It_____________(be)
Laura’s birthday on Sunday, but they _____________________ (celebrate) on Saturday night. They
_________________ (stay) at the disco until twoo’clock in the morning. Laura really __________
(enjoy) it. She __________________(dance) all night!
On Sunday, Tom and his friends ___________________(be) tired. They _________________(stay)
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