W2: My childhood

The use of adjectives: -ing vs. -ed

-ing: Adjetive to describe people or things.

-ed: Adjetive describe feelings

-ING

We use adjetives ending in -ing to describe: «Objects or people»

The books were interesting

-ED

We use adjetives ending in -ed to describe: «Feelings»

Only for people because things CAN NOT feel

The girls weren’t interested in the story

Useful Adjetives

• Interesting
• boring
• happy
• sad
• late
• early
• hot
• cold
• easy
• hard
• noisy
• quiet
• cool
• sick
• delicious
• hungry
• tired
• poor
• wonderful
• awesome
• excited

Examples:

There was a great history teacher at school.

There were noisy children during breaktime

How to say years

• 1972 – ´nineteen hundred and seventy-two´ / ´nineteen seventy-two´
• 1854 – ´eighteen hundred and fifty-four´ / ´eighteen fifty-four´
• 2000 – ´two thousand´
• 2020 – ´two thousand twenty´
• 2003 – ´twenty oh three´
• 2012 – ´twenty twelve´
• 2020 ´twenty twenty´: There was the COVID pandemic in 2020.

The past of the verb “To Be”

Present vs Past

Present

• I am
• You are
• He/she/it is
• We/you/they are

Past

• I/He/She/it was
• We/you/they were

Examples

• I am in English 3 now
• I was in English 2 last cycle.

• My father is retired now
• he was an excellent worker

• They are divorced now
• They were married 6 years ago

Positive and Negative Sentences

I / he / she /is (was) -> wasn’t

We / You / They (were) – > weren-t

Examples

1. Shakespeare was born in England.
2. Mozart wasn’t born in Italy, he was born in Austria.
3. The Wright brothers weren’t from England.

Questions

Was (I/he/she/it) at school yesterday?

Were (we/you/they) at chool yesterday?

Examples

• Was Michael yason English?
• Were you born in Perú?

Questions and Short Answers

Was he born in Huaraz?

Yes, he was.

No, he wasn’t.

Were you born in Huaraz?

Yes, I was.

No, I wasn’t.

There was / There were

Rememer -> There was is the past of There is / There were is the past of There are

There was / There wasn’t

There were / There weren’t

Examples

• There wasn’t a good library at school.
• There weren’t modern computers at school.
• Was there good internet connection? Yes, there was. / No, there wasn’t.
• Were there nice teachers at your school? Yes, there were. / No, there weren’t.