Transcript Simple Past

Simple Past
A Grammar Review
Practice
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Simple Past - A Time line
 The Simple past tense time line looks like
this!
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Beginning in the past
Ending in past
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Grammar
 When is it Used?
1.
2.
To describe events in the
past
To describe completed
events at a certain point in
time, date, time.
 Words Used
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Yesterday
Last week
Last month
Last year
An hour a go
Examples
 I went to work at 7.00 o’clock yesterday.
 I didn’t go to the movies last Saturday.
 I finished my homework an hour ago.
Questions
 What did you eat for dinner? I ate pizza.
 Where did he live? He lived in Rome.
 When did she get married? She, got married in 1997.
 Did they go away for the summer holidays? No, they didn’t.
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Regular Verbs
 Regular Verbs end in
‘ed’
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3.
to the past!
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Just add ‘ed’ to the infinitive 
of the verb. e.g. talk/talked,
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end/ended, walk/walked.
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Just add ‘d’ if verb ends in ‘e’. 
e.g. arrive/arrived, like/liked. 
If the verb ends with a
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consonant and a ‘y’ then
change the ‘y’ into ‘I’ ad add 
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‘ed’. e.g. carry/carried,
cry/cried.
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Rules
1.
 Try these! Change them
talk
carry
marry
cry
ask
smoke
need
follow
open
end
Close
try
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Irregular Verbs
 Irregular Verbs just
have to be learnt!
 think
 eat
 go
 put
 come
 write
 have
 bring
 become
 feel
 got
 leave
 break
 teach
 take
 hold
 catch
 feed
 meet
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A Writing Exercise
 Write about your daily activities yesterday. Use the
following words to help you!
 Get up , have a shower, get dressed, pray, eat breakfast, go to
college, start college, break, eat lunch, finish college, go home,
relax, do homework, exercise, eat dinner, watch television,
read, go to bed.
 Also use ‘connecting word’ to join your sentences!
Then, after that, next, and then
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Do you know how to….
 Talk and write about actions that are completed in the past?
 Remember, the simple past can talk about actions along time
ago. e.g. The First World War began in 1914.
 Or
 Actions that just finished a few minutes ago. e.g. I finished my
lunch five minutes ago.
Practice writing and talking about the above.
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