Transcript File - Ms. Reem`s E

• Detective Conan was on a mission.
To find out how my students spent last week.
To express an event that took
place in the past we add ed to the
regular verb.
Mariam baked delicious cookies last
week.
bake + ed = baked
Adam planted some flowers.
Sam hiked in the woods.
Sarah celebrated her birthday.
Irregular verbs change completely.
went
drive eat
bring
go drove
ate brought
The girls went on a picnic last week.
Conan made a revelation. All the
students lied.
Adam did not plant some flowers.
Sam did not hike in the woods.
Sarah did not celebrate her birthday.
To express a negative event in the past
we use did, not and verb in base form.
So Conan had to do some more
investigation to discover the truth. He
asked the student’s mother.
Did Adam plant some flowers?
Did Sam hike in the woods?
Did Sarah celebrate her birthday?
To interrogate using past tens, use
Did, and verb in base form.
NO,
they
didn’t.
What did everyone do last
week????????
To form a wh question in the past, use a wh
word (when, what , where, who..etc.) + did +
verb in base form.
They played computer games
all week.
Shame , they
wasted a lot
of precious
time.
1.
We use Past Simple Tense to….
express events which took place in the past.
2.
We add ed for the past form of a regular verb, while
the irregular verbs change completely.
3.
Keywords which will indicate a Past Simple Tense are:
Yesterday
ago (two days ago, few years ago, …etc.)
last (last week, last year, last Monday…..etc.)
Ms. Reem Ibrahim © 2011