Reading
This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling. There is one square twice as large as that of the city of Salamanca, surrounded by porticoes, where are daily assembled more than sixty thousand souls, engaged in buying and selling;and where are found all kinds of merchandise that the world affords, embracing the necessaries of life, as for instance articles of food, as well as jewels of gold and silver; lead, brass, copper; tin,precious stones, bones, shells, snails, and feathers. [...] There are apothecaries'shops, where prepared medicines, liquids, ointments,and plasters are sold; barbers'shops, where they wash and shave the head; and restauranteurs, that furnish food and drink at a certain price.
- Using the previous text, write a short description of Mexico-Tenochtitlan.You can also watch the video'Tenochtitlan/Aztec empire (15 century)" by Brainly info, following the QR/link on the right for extra details.
Remember to write sentences using there was or there were in your description.For example:
There were four avenues or entrances to the city.
Grammar
Remember that two structures for describing past situations are there was/there were and could.
a)When I visited the old castle,a large moat around it.
b)many beautiful paintings in the museum.
c) In the village,a small bakery that sold the best bread.
d) In the 19th century,people in the mountains who
survive harsh winters without modern technology.
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| There Was/There Were | Could |
| There was (singular) and there wene (plural) ane used to talk about things that existed in the past. | Could can be used to talk about possibilities in the past. |
| There were four entrances to Mexico-Tenochtitlan. There wene bridges in the streets. There was a very big market. | Canoes couldpass under the bridges. People could walk or navigate through Mexico-Tenochtitlan. People could buy all kinds of things at the market. |
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Fill in the blanks with there was, there were or could
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