The Simple Past

What?

When?

How?

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Read the following texts. Pay special

attention to the form of the verbs.

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My mornings
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
Yesterday
habits
we usemorning
the Present Simple.

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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
Simple Past.

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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?

AUsually, we make the simple past by adding
ed to the base form of the verb.
,
. ed-
opened, brushed, combed, boiled, walked

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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- ,- e
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Practice Time
Simple-past/exercise-1

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?How do we form if
Regular Verbs
More Spelling Rules

Irregular verbs
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+ /-/ ? It is practice time

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?How do we form if

Irregular verbs

Regular Verbs
Spelling Rules
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Irregular Verbs
Irregular verbs are verbs that dont 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?
Are The
thereword
rules changed.
for the irregular verbs?
No. The only way is to learn them by heart.

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How do we learn them?
Practice again and again.
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It is practice time
Exercises on Simple Past
Was or Were?
Positive Sentences in Simple Past
Answer Questions in Simple Past
Mixed Exercise in Simple Past
Goldilocks and the three bears:
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

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The negative form

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What if I didnt do it?

did not -
. ,( didnt - )

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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It is practice time
Negative Sentences in Simple Past

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)?( Y/N questions

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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 didnt eat lunch.
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How do we form questions

in the Past Simple?

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It is practice time
Negative Sentences in Simple Past
Questions in Simple Past

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WH questions in the past-1

Lets revise the questions words:
What?
Where?
When?
Why?
How?
Which?
Whom?

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WH questions in the past-2

?What did you see
?Whom did she see
I saw a film on TV and she saw a man.

) (WH ,
did =) .
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It is practice time
Questions with Interrogatives in Simple Past

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Now it is reflection time:

Did the presentation help you?
Yes it did. It helped me.
OR
No, it didnt. It didnt help me.
What did you think about the exercises?
They were useful. / They werent useful.

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