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’
2.
3.
to the past!
Just add ‘ed’ to the infinitive
of the verb. e.g. talk/talked,
end/ended, walk/walked.
Just add ‘d’ if verb ends in ‘e’.
e.g. arrive/arrived, like/liked.
If the verb ends with a
consonant and a ‘y’ then
change the ‘y’ into ‘I’ ad add
‘ed’. e.g. carry/carried,
cry/cried.
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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