LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT

5 | Choose the correct options.
Anar | Hey! How 1was / were your weekend?
Javid | It 2was / were great, thanks!
Anar | 3Were you / You were at the beach on Saturday morning?
Javid | No, I 4wasn’t / weren’t. I was at the swimming pool.
Anar | 5Was there / Were there many people there?
Javid | No, not really. But 6there was / there were a problem: the water was very cold.
Anar | Oh, no!

6 | Complete the conversation. Use the correct past simple form of the verbs.

7 | Look at what Rafael and Julia did on their holidays (✓). Make sentences using the correct affirmative or negative form of the past simple.
1 Rafael / go camping 2 Rafael / go kayaking 3 Julia / see the historic center 4 Rafael and Julia / visit a street market |

Check your progress
| I CAN ...
• talk about things to do on holiday • use the past simple of be and there was/were • talk about stories and storytelling • use the past simple of regular and irregular verbs. |
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Finding examples of new words Find examples of new words in different places, for example: on websites, in videos, in songs or in this book. Write the examples in your notebook. Read your examples often.