It Was A Great Weekend!: 1. Fill in The Blanks With The Past Simple of The Verb in Brackets

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1. Fill in the blanks with the past simple of the verb in brackets.

It was a great weekend!

This is Sally she is seventeen. Last year she


___________(be) at a Secondary school in Lisbon and as
well as the rest of the students she had good marks at the
end of the year. She ___________(be) very happy and so
___________(be) her parents. Therefore Sally and the
other students ___________(be) ready to spend a
weekend at the beach as a reward. It ___________(be) a
fantastic experience!

Many other foreign students ___________(be) there


too. They ___________(be) from different countries.

It ___________(be) good to meet people, from different


cultures… Being there ___________(be) fantastic. The
programme ___________(be) great!

What a weekend!

2. Answer the questions:

a) How old was Sally last year?

________________________________________________________________________

b) Was she a good student then?

________________________________________________________________________

c) Why was Sally so happy at the end of the school year?

________________________________________________________________________

d) Were Sally´s parents happy, too?

________________________________________________________________________
3. Rewrite these sentences in the negative.

a) I was at school yesterday. ____________________________________________________

b) My English teacher was skinny and short. _______________________________________

c) We were happy with our marks. _______________________________________________

d) It was sunny on Sunday. ______________________________________________________

4. Ask according to the answers. Look at the underlined words to find the correct question.

a) ______________________________________________________________?

Mary and I were thirty and ten years old respectively.

b) ______________________________________________________________?

We were at the doctor´s three days ago.

c) ______________________________________________________________?

She was born on 21st May 1985.

d) ______________________________________________________________?

The weather was fine.

5. Complete the following with question tags.

a) I wasn´t ill last night , ______________________________?

b) Those singers were in London last year,______________________________?

c) I was ten years old in 1978, ______________________________?

d) Mary and I were in Lisbon two years ago, ______________________________?

e) These painters weren´t famous, ______________________________?

f) I wasn´t at school yesterday afternoon, ______________________________?

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