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100
Titleyears ago: Was / were
by
Jill Hadfield
Author

Target age: Secondary / Adult
Time needed: 15 minutes
Grammar objective: to practise the use of
was / were
Materials: one copy of the worksheet per
six–eight students
Summary: a team competition to practise was,
were, wasn’t, weren’t

Procedure
1. Put students in teams of six–eight. Appoint a
scribe for each team and give each scribe a copy
of the worksheet.
2. Tell students that they have to think of as many
sentences as possible for each column and that the
team with the most correct sentences at the end of
the game will be announced the winner.
Give them these example sentences:
100 years ago there weren’t any computers.
100 years ago there were more tigers in Asia.
100 years ago there was less travel.
100 years ago there wasn’t a flag on the moon.
3. Tell teams they have five minutes to write as many
sentences as they can.
4. When the time is up, the teams read out each
sentence they’ve written. The other team need to
decide whether the sentence is correct, both factually
and from a language standpoint. If it is, the team
scores a point. The team with most correct sentences
is the winner.

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Note: It’s worth spending some time thinking of
examples as a class before the activity to get ideas
flowing.

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100
Titleyears ago: Was / were
by
Jill Hadfield
Author

there wasn’t / weren’t ...

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GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY / Fun with grammar / 100 years ago: Was / were

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© Macmillan Publishers Ltd 2014

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there was / were ...

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100 YEARS AGO ...