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6.1 Cłianges

past of to bc: all forms; Past Simple of regular verbs: positive laik about your past

Reading    Grammar I past of to be

1 a What are the buildings in the photos? Read 2 Choose the correct words in the rules in the

the text and check your answers.    Active grammar box, then complete the table

_    in the Active grammar box.

b Match the buildings with now and in the past.

	Now	In the past
The Hoover-v Buiłding	an office i	a hospital
The Musee d*Orsay	''a supermarkety	a train station
The Reina	an art gallery
Sofia		a school
The Smolny	a museum
Institute	and art gallery	Va factory

Changing buildings

You live in an apartment now, but was it an apartment fifty years ago? Maybe it wasn’t an apartment, but a school or a factory ...

Active grammar

We use is and are with now/the past.

We use was and were with now/the past.

	l/He/She/lt	We/You/They
O	was
O		weren* t
0	l/he/she/it?	Were we/you/they?
	kęs, l/he/she/it	Yes, we/you/they
	was.	•
	No, l/he/she/it	No, we/you/they
	•	weren’t.

see Reference page 63

The Musee d’Orsay in Paris was a train station in the early twentieth century. It is now an art gallery.

The Hoover Buiłding

in London is a famous buiłding from the 1930s.

It was the main ofTice and factory of the Hoover Company.

It is now a supermarket.

The Reina Sofia

buiłding was a hospital. It is now one of Madrid's main museums and art galleries.

The Smolny Institute in St Petersburg is now the Office of the Governor of the city. It was a school for rich girls in the nineteenth century. The offices were classrooms.