worksheets

UNIT E.S.O.

ND

was, were

Past simple 1 Write the past simple forms of the verbs in the correct place in the table. arrive buy carry dance leave plan play stop

finish

hurry

4 Complete the dialogue with was, were, wasn’t or weren’t. Juan Hi Suzy. Where (1) ______________ you last week? Suzy Hi Juan. I (2) ______________ on holiday with

-ed

-d

y + -ied

_____________

arrived

_____________

Juan Really? Where were you?

_____________

_____________

_____________

Suzy We (3) ______________ in Brighton, in

my mum and dad.

England.

double consonant + -ed

irregular

_____________

_____________

_____________

_____________

Juan Wow! (4) ______________ it good? Suzy No, it (5) ______________. The weather (6) ______________ horrible and the sea (7) ______________ cold.

2 Complete the sentences with the correct past simple form of the verbs. 1 He _______________ (meet) some friends in the park at the weekend and they _______________ (watch) a football match.

Juan Where did you stay? Suzy In a hotel. Juan (8) ______________ there a swimming pool? Suzy No, there (9) ______________. Juan (10) ______________ the rooms nice?

2 It _______________ (not snow) here last winter so we _______________ (go) skiing in Italy. 3 We _______________ (have) tea at my aunt’s

Suzy No, they (11) ______________. Juan Oh dear! Suzy It (12) ______________ a terrible holiday!

house and we _______________ (eat) cake. 4 We _______________ (not arrive) until five o’clock and we _______________ (leave) at six o’clock. 5 She _______________ (win) a prize for singing and she _______________ (sing) the song again on the radio.

1

what time

when

where

who

_________________________________________ ? She went to the shopping centre.

2

_________________________________________ ? She went last Saturday.

3

_________________________________________ ? She arrived at eleven o’clock.

4

_________________________________________ ? She met a school friend.

5

5 Write true sentences about your classroom last year. Use the affirmative or negative form of there was or there were. 1 two doors

3 Write questions for the answers. Use the question words in the box. what

there was, there were

_________________________________________ ? She bought a present for her brother.

__________________________________________ 2 one window __________________________________________ 3 fifteen desks __________________________________________ 4 a computer __________________________________________ 5 three cupboards __________________________________________ 6 a bookcase __________________________________________

worksheets

UNIT E.S.O.

ND

Summary Verbs: life events be born become a professional buy a house do an exam get a job get married go to school grow up graduate from university have a child leave home leave school move win a competition Adjectives: memories angry boring cute exciting strange tasty upset

fun funny happy horrible

lonely naughty nervous

scary

Verbs: life events

Adjectives: memories

1 Complete the words a–k. Use a, e, i, o, u. Then match 1–10 with a–k to make life events.

3 Find eight adjectives in the wordsearch. B

A

N

E

R

V

O

U

S

b j___b

O

F

U

N

N

Y

R

A

O

3 go to

c ___n___v___rs___ty

R

C

P

H

A

J

G

N

E

4 get a

d ___x___m

I

U

S

T

R

A

N

G

E

5 do an

e m___rr___ ___d

N

T

E

O

W

S

D

R

N

6 get

f

7 buy a

h h___m___

G

E

T

A

S

T

Y

Y

R

8 leave

i

sch___ ___l

9 have a

j

h___ ___s___

1 graduate from

a pr___f___ss___ ___n___l

2 win a

10 become a

c___mp___t___t___ ___n

4 Complete the sentences with the words in the boxes.

k ch___ld

cute happy horrible

2 Look at the information. Then complete the sentences.





Ruben

graduate / job

married / child

Sara

competition / house

school / exam

Juan

home / professional

house / married

1 Ruben wants to graduate from university and __________________. He doesn’t want to __________________ or __________________. 2 Sara wants to _____________________________ and __________________. She doesn’t want to __________________or __________________. 3 Juan wants to __________________ and _________________________. He doesn’t want to __________________ or __________________.

lonely nervous

1 When I was five years old, I went to school for the first time. I was _____________. 2 I passed my exam! I’m really _____________. 3 I love dogs. I think they’re really _____________. 4 Last year I went to live in a big city. At first I didn’t have any friends and I was really _____________. 5 My little brother doesn’t like clowns. He thinks they’re _____________. angry exciting

fun naughty scary

6 I was bad when I was at primary school. I was very _____________. 7 I won a tennis competition last year and I met Rafa Nadal. It was very _____________. 8 We saw a horror film at the cinema. It was really _____________. 9 We danced a lot at Jason’s party. It was _____________. 10 I lost my sister’s mp3 player. She was really _____________ with me.