Remember: places in town and where people went
Towns have many places. People meet in the square. They buy things in a shopping mall. A bank keeps money safe. We catch a train at the station. A factory makes things, and in a museum we see old things. To say where we went, we use the past simple: I went to the bank. We visited the museum. To ask, we say: Where did you go? Notice that went is the past of go, and we say did you go in the question.
| Place | What people do there |
|---|---|
| square | walk and meet friends |
| shopping mall | buy clothes and shoes |
| bank | keep money safe |
| station | catch a train |
| museum | see old things |
| factory | make things with machines |
Where did you go on Friday, Layla?
I went to the shopping mall with my aunt.
What did you buy?
I bought a bag, and then we saw our cousins in the square.
On Saturday Mina went to the station with his dad. They met Uncle Samir there, and the three of them took a train to Giza. In the afternoon they visited a museum. Mina saw many old tools and he took a lot of photos. In the evening they went home and ate dinner together.
Where did they go? The grown-up whispers a place from the table: museum, bank, station. The child asks: Where did you go? and the grown-up answers with a full sentence, for example: I went to the museum. Then change places.
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