Support Material / Material de apoyo

Learning activity 2 / Actividad de aprendizaje 2

Presentation / Presentación

A. To express who someone was or where someone was, we use the verb be in
past tense. / Para expresar quien fue alguien o en dónde estuvo, usamos la
conjugación del verbo be en pasado.

a. Affirmative form / Forma afirmativa

I was at the supermarket.

Subject Verb in past Complement

b. Negative form / Forma negativa

I was not at the supermarket.

Subject Verb in past Complement

c. Interrogative form / Forma interrogativa

Yes, she was /

Was She at the supermarket?
No, she wasn’t.
Verb in past Subject Complement Short answers

B. Telling the date / Expresando la fecha

There is a difference when you write the date and when you say it. / Hay una
diferencia cuando usted escribe la fecha y cuando usted dice la fecha.

7th March
22 / 06 / 1939 December 15th 2013
1600
If you write
 December the fifteen
The seventh The twenty
two thousand and
of March second of June
thirteen or December
sixteen nineteen thirty-
the fifteen twenty
hundred. nine.
You say thirteen.

Fuente de imágenes: SENA

Are there
strawberries?
C. Simple past is used to express actions that started and ended in the past. / El
pasado simple es usado para expresar acciones que iniciaron y terminaron en
el pasado.

a. Affirmative form / Forma afirmativa

I Studied English at Sena.

Subject Verb in past Complement

b. Negative form / Forma negativa

I did not (didn’t) Study English at Sena.

Subject Did not or didn’t Verb in simple form Complement

c. Interrogative form / Forma interrogativa

Yes, I did. / No,

Did you study English at Sena?
I didn’t.
Verb in simple
Did Subject complement Short answers
form

Practice / Práctica

A. Tick (√) if the sentence is correct or cross (X) if it is wrong. Correct the wrong
ones: / Seleccione (√) si la oración está bien o (X) si está mal. Corrija las
oraciones incorrectas.

1. I were born in February. x

__i was born in february________________________________

2. They were in the supermarket. √

 __________________________________________________

3. It was expensive. x

4. I didn’t studied math. x

I didn’t study math ________________________________________

5. Did they brought an umbrella? x

__did they dring an umbrella________________________________

6. You was in my English class. x

You were in my English class_________________________
x
7. She were a nurse at the hospital.
___she was a nurse at the hospital______________________

8. Did she do her homework? √

__________________________________________________

9. I didn’t wrote the report for history class. x

I Didn’t they write the report for history class__________________

10. Were he your teacher? x

Was he your teacher?_________________________________

B. Write the following verbs in past form. / Escriba los siguientes verbos en
pasado.

Be Was - were
Become became
Break Broke
Bring Brought
Clean Cleaned
Cook Cooked
Draw Drew
Dream Dreamt - dreamed
Drink Drank
Eat Ate
Listen Listened
 Paint Painted
Play Played
Say Said
See Saw
Sleep Slept
Speak Spoke
Stop Stopped
Take Took
Talk Talked
Teach Taught
Think thought
Watch Watched
Write Wrote

C. Match the dates in numbers with their corresponding in letters. / Relacione las
fechas en números con su correspondiente en letras.

1. 06 / 19 / 1635 _7__ December twenty-eight, two thousand and

thirteen.

2. 02 / 17 / 1854 _3__ September thirty, nineteen ninety-one.

3. 09 / 30 / 1991 __4_ January six, two thousand.

4. 01 / 06 / 2000 __6_ October twenty-second, two thousand and five.

5. 03 / 25 / 1295 _5__ March twenty-five, twelve ninety-five.

6. 10 / 22 / 2005 __2_ February seventeen, eighteen fifty-four.

7. 12 / 28 / 2013 _8__ August twenty- third, twenty twenty-five.

8. 08 / 23 / 2025 _1__ June nineteen, sixteen thirty- five.

D. Answer the following questions. / Responda las siguiente preguntas.

1. What did you do yesterday? Did I wash the clothes

____________________________________________________________
 2. What did you do on the weekend?
did I help my daughter do homework
_____________________________________

3. Where were you born?

________i were born cartagena____________________________

4. Where did you go last Friday?

Did I go where mi cousin_______________________________________

5. What was the last thing you bought?

_____ did I was the clotes_____________________________

Production / Producción

A. Look at the pictures. Write sentences about what the person did on vacation. /
Mire las imágenes. Escriba oraciones sobre lo que hizo la persona en
vacaciones.

1.

Was he went on a plane trip

2.

Was he on vacation in hotel

 3.

Were They went to the beach

4.

Was he diving in the sea

5. Were they played voleyball

6. Was she sat down to drink lemonade on the

beach

7. Was he surfing in the sea

 8.
Were they went partying

9. Were they went to dinner at a restaurant

Fuente de imágenes: SENA

Are there
strawberries?

Document control / Control del documento

Name Position Dependence Date

Theme expert
Dirección de
Author Ricardo Asesor English
Formación August
Aristizabal Dot Works -
Profesional. 2014
Salinas Programa de
Dirección General
Bilingüismo

Copy editor – Centro

Luz Clarena September
Adaptation Línea de Agroindustrial.
Arias 2014
Producción Regional Quindío