🏰 Life Long Ago
Students explore three historical periods — Ancient Egypt, Medieval Europe, and the 1920s — learning to describe the past with there was/were and was/were. Through a rich time-travel reading, a grandpa's stories dialogue, and a Long Ago vs Today game, they compare past and present life. The writing task has them imagine travelling back 100 years and describing what they find.
Lesson Plan
- 12 vocabulary items: past vs present
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- There was + singular (There was a castle)
- There were + plural (There were many farms)
- There wasn't / There weren't for things that didn't exist
- Was/were for past descriptions
- Comparing past and present
