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The Past Simple:

Be and Have

Il verbo "to be" al Past Simple

Il Past Simple corrisponde in italiano ai nostri verbi all'imperfetto, al passato prossimo e al passato remoto

The Verb BE

I was at the cinema

Io ero al cinema

Barack Obama was a great president

Barack Obama fu un grande presidente

La forma affermativa

Soggetto + was/were

Examples:

Pronunciation!

La forma

Attenti alla pronuncia!

WAS /UOS/

WERE /UeR/

Roberta was at school in the afternoon

They were at a concert

Attenzione!

Non esiste la forma contratta del verbo be al Past Simple nella forma affermativa!

Soggetto + was/were + not

Soggetto + wasn't/weren't

Examples:

La forma negativa

I wasn't at the party last night, I was at home.

Luke and Chris weren't happy about their maths tests.

Was/were + soggetto

La grammatica dell'inglese è molto regolare, quindi anche per questa forma verbale si deve fare l'inversione alla forma interrogativa.

la forma interrogativa

Le question words

Se non ricordi tutte le "question words", riguarda il video sul Present Simple!

Examples:

RICORDA!

Posso usare le "question words" anche con il Past Simple! La struttura è la stessa che hai sempre usato con il Present Simple e il Present Continuous!

INVERSIONE VERBO CON SOGGETTO!

Question word + was/were + soggetto

Were you sick yesterday? Yes, I was.

Was Sarah angry with me?

No, she wasn't.

A Where were you last night?

B I was home.

A Why were you home?

B I was tired.

Soggetto + had

Il verbo "have" è uguale per tutte le persone alla forma affermativa.

The verb

HAVE

Examples:

I had a dog when I was little.

We had our first rugby training

yesterday afternoon.

Le nuove espressioni di tempo che usiamo con i verbi al passato sono:

YESTERDAY IERI

AGO FA

LAST SCORSO

Past time expressions

Queste espressioni di tempo si possono accompagnare ad altre espressioni temporali che già conosciamo, come si può vedere da questa tabella.

Examples:

I had a science test yesterday morning. It was difficult!

Laura was at home last Monday. She had the flu.

My teacher was in London last month.

We were in elementary school three years ago.

Roger and Michael were born both in 2009.

Asking about....birthday and birthplace.

Pay

attention!

Quando devo chiedere ad una persona la propria data e luogo di nascita, in italiano usiamo il presente.

In inglese si usa il passato!

When were you born?

Where were you born?

I was born in Turin on 14th February 2006

Prova a trasformare le seguenti frasi dal Presente al Passato...

Task

I'm at the gym now.

She it at school this morning.

He has a dentist appointment this week.

We have an important tennis match tonight.

They are at lunch at their parents for Christmas.

We aren't at the party now.

I'm not worried about my test this afternoon.

Are you at the doctor's now?

Is she at Sarah's doing her homework today?

Are you in Rome this summer?

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