Exercise 8. Translate into English: 1. Is your brother at home? 2. How much are these postcards? 3. This hotel is very expensive. 4. I am interested in art. 5. All the shops are open today. 6. Is the museum open today? 7. I am hot. 8. My sister is an architect. 9. I am not tired. 10. Where is her husband from? THE VERB "TO BE" IN THE PAST SIMPLE TENSE POSITIVE FORM I was You were He was She was It was We were You were was not = wasn't I was tired last night The weather was good when we were on holiday The hotel wasn't very expensive Where were you at 5 o'clock yesterday? NEGATIVE FORM I was not You were not He was not She was not It was not We were not You were not were not = weren't QUESTIONS Was I? Were you? Was he? Was she? Was it? Were we? Were you? EXERCISES Exercise 9. Fill in the gaps using am/is/are/was/were. Some sentences contain the past tense, and some the present. 1. Last year their son was 26, he is 27 now. 2. Today the weather ___ nice, but yesterday it ___ cold. 3. I ___ hungry last night, so I had something to eat. 4. I ___ hungry last night, so I had something to eat. 5. Where ___ you at 10 o'clock last Sunday morning? 6. Don't buy these shoes. They ___ too expensive. 7. We must go now. It ___ very late. 8. This time last year I ___ in England. 9. We ___ tired when we arrived home, so we went to bed. 10. Anton Chekhov died in 1904. He ___ a famous Russian writer. Exercise 10. Fill in the gaps using was/wasn't/were/weren't 1. We didn't like that house. It was very old and it wasn't large enough. 2. Helen got married when she ___ 21 years old.