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PAST SIMPLE

When to use Past Simple?

Talking about
completed
actions
We use Past Simple to talk about
actions or events that happened
at a specific time in the past and Examples:
are already finished. I visited the zoo yesterday.
They went to the cinema
last weekend.
She finished her homework
an hour ago.
Examples:
She always played with her
dolls as a child.
I usually read comics when I
was a kid.
My dad often went fishing Describing past
when he was younger. Describing past
habits or routines
habits or routines

It can be used to describe actions


that were habitual or routines in
the past.
PAST SIMPLE
How to form Past Simple?

POSITIVE NEGATIVE QUESTION


I / You / We / They I / You / We / They Did I / you / we / they
He / She / It played. He / She / It didn’t play. he / she / it play?

POSITIVE I danced at the party.


(regular)
Start with subject, add the
We went to the zoo last
past form of the verb. Pay
weekend. (irregular)
attention to the regular and
irregular verbs.

He didn’t play soccer last week. NEGATIVE


They didn’t eat pizza for dinner Use “did not” (didn’t) before
yesterday. the base of the verb to form
He didn’t study for his exam last negative sentences.
night.

QUESTION
Begin with “did”, add the Did they watch the movie?
subject, and then add the Did she visit the museum last
base form of the verb. weekend?
Did he do his homework
yesterday?
PAST SIMPLE
Complete the table with REGULAR
AND IRREGULAR verbs in past

Jump Play
REGULAR IRREGULAR Save Be
Fly Do
Help Sing
Wear Eat
Go Cook
Catch Paint
Swim Speak
Run Read
Have Cut
think Come
Study Walk

How to pronunce the -ed ending in English?

/ID/ /D/ / T/

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