The Simple Past
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Read the following texts. Pay special
attention to the form of the verbs.
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Every morning, at 7:00 the alarm clock sounds.
I open my eyes, brush my teeth and comb my
hair. My mother boils the water and prepares
coffee.
I prepare myself a cup of cocoa.
At 7:40 I open the door and walk to school. I
always come to school on time.
When we speak about daily routines and
habits we use the Present
Simple.
نستعمل المضارع البسيط,عندما نتحدث عن فعاليات روتينية
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Yesterday morning I opened my eyes at 7:30.
I brushed my teeth and combed my hair.
My mother boiled the water and prepared coffee. I
prepared myself a cup of cocoa.
At 7:55 I opened the door and rushed to school.
I ran as quickly as I could and I came to school on time.
When we speak about an action that happened
in the past and was finished, we use the Past
Simple .
فإننا نستعمل الماضي البسيط,عندما نتحدث عن فعاليات بدأت وانتهت بالماضي
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نستعمل صيغة Past Simpleلنتكلم عن أشياء قد حدثت في الماضي.
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When? – Commonly used time expressions
Time expressions that usually indicate the
simple past:
yesterday
a… (moment/ week/month/ year) ago
last… (night/Sunday/week/month/year)
in/on a past date (in 1960 / on 25/10/1960)
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How do we form it?
A- Usually, we make the past simple by adding –
ed to the base form of the verb.
للفعلed بشكل عام نضيف
opened, brushed, combed, boiled, walked
I brushed my teeth in the morning.
Subject
V2
فاعل
The rest of the
sentence
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How do we form it?
BWhen the regular verb ends with “-e” we make
the simple past by adding –d to the base form.
prepare - prepared
d نضيف فقطe عندما ينتهي الفعل ب
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Irregular verbs are verbs that don’t get –ed at
the end in the past form.
Here are some examples:
Present
Past
go
went
say
said
eat
ate
give
gave
think
thought
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Irregular Verbs
What
happened to the verbs in the past?
The word changed.
It is practice time
• Are there rules for the irregular verbs?
No. The only way is to learn them by heart.
How do we learn them?
Practice again and again.
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Exercises on Past Simple
Was or Were ?
Positive Sentences in Simple Past
Answer Questions in Simple Past
Mixed Exercise in Simple Past
Goldilocks and the three bears:
Part 3 traP ,2 traP ,1
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did not اذا اردنا نفي جمل فإننا نستعمل
) وبعدها يأتي الفعل بصيغته األساسيةdidn’t (اختصار
I finished my homework.
She did not finish her homework.
He wrote a letter to her friend.
She did not write him back.
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Negative Sentences in Simple Past
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Did you learn the simple past?
Yes, we learned the simple past.
Did you eat lunch?
Yes, I ate lunch. / No, we didn’t eat lunch.
did نستعمل الفعل المساعد,)لكي نسأل سؤال (نعم – ال
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Questions in Simple Past
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Lets revise the questions words:
What?
Where?
When?
Why?
How?
ماذا؟
?أين
?متى
?لماذا
?كيف
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?What did you see
I saw a film on TV.
عندما نسأل سؤال whنستعمل كلمة السؤال وبعدها الفعل
المساعد didويأتي الفعل بصيغته األساسية.
عند االجابة نستعمل الفعل بصيغة الماضي.
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?Who baked the cake
My mom baked it.
عندما نسأل عن الفاعل ,يأتي الفعل بصيغة الماضي بعد ال who
وال نحتاج الستعمال الفعل المساعد did
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Questions with Interrogatives in Simple Past
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Did the presentation help you?
Yes it did. It helped me.
OR
No, it didn’t. It didn’t help me.
What did you think about the exercises?
They were useful. / They weren’t useful.
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