Transcript PastPastCont

Simple Past Tense
by Kristi Reyes
Simple Past
• Any event, activity, or state that started and finished
in the past
• Key words:
yesterday …
last …
… ago
• Regular verbs
work
talk
stay
study
• Irregular verbs
see
have
go
drive
Spelling Rules for Regular Verbs
Most regular verbs, add –ed to change to past tense:
walk
listen
need
1. close
live
die
continue
2. try
study
hurry
play?
Spelling Rules for Regular Verbs
3. shop
jog
chat
rain?
fax?
4. prefer
permit
happen?
listen?
Pronunciation of -ed
Which is the correct pronunciation of the –ed in these regular verbs?
• Three different pronunciations of -ed
1. /t/
2. /d/
3. /id/
worked
surprised
wanted
lived
assisted
returned
laughed
changed
decided
watched
looked
needed
Pronunciation practice
Irregular Verbs
Need to memorize
See handout
Practice every day!
HOMEWORK FOR MONDAY!
To be
PRESENT
I am
You are
He is
She is
It is
We are
They are
People
Everyone
PAST
I
You
He
She
It
We
They
People
Everyone
Tell your partner – use past tense verbs!
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How did you celebrate your last birthday?
When did you move to the U.S.?
When did you learn to drive?
Why did you start taking classes at MiraCosta
College?
How did you learn to speak English so well?
What did you do yesterday after school?
What did you do this morning?
What did you do last Saturday night?
Where were you last Sunday morning?
Questions and negatives
in simple past tense
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Make these affirmative sentences into
questions and negatives
Sentence
I studied English.
She worked yesterday.
They took a vacation.
He had a day off.
I was absent last week.
They were on break.
It was a holiday.
Question
Negative
Questions and negatives
in simple past tense
• Question formation:
Did + subject + verb + ?
Was / Were + subject + verb + ?
• Negation:
Subject + did not (didn’t) + verb
Subject + was / were not (wasn’t / weren’t) + …
Questions about past tense
• More practice to come …
• Inform the instructor if you
would like additional
practice!
Simple Past Tense
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Actions, events, states that started and
finished in the past (…ago, last …,
yesterday… )
Regular verbs: -ed
Irregular verbs: change spelling, memorize
Tell your partner – use past tense verbs!
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What did you do yesterday?
What did you do last Saturday night?
Where were you last Sunday morning?
What did you do to celebrate your last birthday?
When did you move to the U.S.?
When did you learn to drive?
Why did you start taking classes at MiraCosta
College?
• How did you learn to speak English so well?
Past Continuous: Three Uses
• Use 1:
Past actions that were in progress at a particular time in the
past; actions that were not yet finished at a past time
Erika’s Schedule
8 – 9: had breakfast
9 – 10: finished her
homework
10 – 11: exercised
11 – 12: cooked lunch
12 – 2: shopped
2 – 5: talked to a friend
on the phone
At 8:30, Erika _________________
breakfast.
At 9:15, she ___________________ her
homework.
At 10:30, she _____________________.
At 11:30, she ___________________
lunch.
At 12:30, she ___________________.
At 3, she ______________ to a friend.
Tell a classmate – use past continuous verbs:
I was _______ing
• Where were you last Thursday at 8 p.m.? What were
you doing?
• What were you doing Friday at 5 p.m.? Where were
you? Who were you with?
• What were you doing Sunday morning at 7 a.m.?
• What were you doing last night at this time?
• What were you doing last week at this time?
• What were you doing last year at this time?
Past Continuous, continued
• Use 2: Two (or more) actions that were in progress
in the past at the same time
• Use while
• Examples:
Sorry, I wasn’t listening to you while you were talking.
While I was reading, he was writing.
Past Continuous, continued
• Use 3: Describe and set the scene; tell what
was happening or in progress when something
else happened or interrupted a past inprogress action
• Examples:
Car accident
Broken bone
A Crime
Form: Using past and past continuous
together
• Use past continuous to
say what was in
progress
I was crossing the street …
• Use simple past for the
interrupting action
when the driver ran the
red light.
Other examples:
I was sleeping when the telephone rang and
woke me up.
He was driving too fast when he crashed the car.
More Examples:
We were watching the news when the
announcer made a special live report.
I was trying to study when you called.
Student examples:
Form of Past Continuous
Subject + was / were + verb+ing
Negation:
Subject + was / were + not + verb+ing
Yes/ No Question:
Was / Were + subject + + verb+ing ?
Information Question:
(WH) + Was / Were + subject + + verb+ing ?
Remember –ing spelling rules?
Verb ending in...
(Most verbs)
1 vowel + 1 consonant
1 vowel + 1 consonant + E
Final –ie
How to make the -ING form
Add -ING
Double the consonant, then add -ING
Examples
say - saying
go - going
walk - walking
swim - swimming
hit - hitting
get - getting
Remove E, then add –ING
come - coming
lose - losing
live – living
Change –ie to y, then add -ING
die – dying
tie -- tying
A little practice
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He (break) ________________ his finger when he (play) _____________basketball.
He (golf) ______________ when he (start) _____ to have chest pains.
She (walk) _____________ when she (slip) __________ and (fall) ________ down
the stairs.
4. She (eat) ______________ dinner at the restaurant when she (choke) __________
on a fish bone.
5. When I (chop) ______________ onions, I (cut) my finger.
6. They (race) _________________ their cars when they (cause) ______________ an
accident.
7. He (burn) _______________________ his hand when he (cook) ___________ the
eggs.
8. He (have) ____________________ an accident because she (no pay)
________________ attention while she (drive) _____________________.
9. The campers (hike) _____________________ in the forest when they (become)
__________________ lost.
10. Benjamin Franklin (fly) ____________________ a kite when he (prove) that
lightening contains electricity because he (get) ________________ an electric shock.
Review
• Simple past = action or state finished in the
past (yesterday, last…, … ago, etc.)
• Past continuous = was/were + verb+ing, an
action that was in progress/not finished when
another action happened (interrupted)
Writing: Which is correct?
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I (sleep) well last night.
I (sleep) when the first started.
When I got up this morning, it (rain).
It (rain) hard last night.
Susie fell when she (play) in the park.
We (have) dinner when you called.
I (write) an email when you called me.
He (paint) the walls yesterday.
She (drive) to Los Angeles in her new car.
Final Tips …
• Use while for two actions in progress at the
same time in the past:
She was talking while he was driving.
• Use when when telling about sequence of
events (one action that was in progress that
was interrupted by another event in the past):
I was just leaving when you called.
(first action in progress)
(interrupting event)
Punctuation
with When and While
• When and while at the front of a sentence, use a
comma:
When you called, I was watching TV.
While he was washing the clothes, I was doing the
dishes.
• When and while in the middle of a sentence, no
comma
I was watching TV when you called.
I was doing the dishes while he was washing the
clothes.