Do all exercises in your notebook Adjectives: -ing and -ed Adjectives that end in ing describe things or events. This film is frightening. The camping trip was boring. Adjectives that end in ed describe people’s feelings or emotions. They are frightened! She was bored on the trip. Usually, adjectives ending in -ing describe a thing or a situation. Adjectives ending in -ed describe how a person is feeling. It’s an exciting book. The book makes me feel excited. Be careful! I am feeling bored: I’m bored. I am a boring person: I’m boring. Past simple be I He/She It was was not (wasn’t) born in England. an explorer. You We They were were not (weren’t) born in 1997. excited about the trip. We use the past simple of the verb be to talk about situations or describe events in the past. Was and were do not have contracted forms in the affirmative. It was a nice day. They were in the classroom. In the negative, we often use the contracted forms wasn’t and weren’t. He wasn’t at school yesterday. We weren’t at your party. Past simple be: questions Yes/No questions Was he surprised? Yes, he was. No, he wasn’t. Were they bored? Yes, they were. No, they weren’t. In questions, was and were come before the subject pronoun. Was she an explorer? NOT She was an explorer? Were you at the museum yesterday? NOT You were at the museum yesterday? Wh- questions Who was a teacher? Arthur Lakes was a teacher. Where were the fossils? They were in Colorado. In wh- questions, we add a question word before was and were. Why was she at the hospital last week? Where were you yesterday? 69 Unit 4 Language reference Adjectives: -ing and -ed bored boring excited exciting frightened frightening interested interesting surprised surprising Travelling countries culture history maps places travel trips visit Richmond
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