Unit 2 Grammar: Past simple
1.-Past Simple Form (Regulars: -ed / Irregulars 2nd Column)
Affirmative / Negative / Question / Short answersRegular / Played / didn´t play / Did you play? / Yes, I did
No, I didn´t
Irregular / Ate / didn´t eat / Did she eat? / Yes, she did
No, she didn´t
@ Past Simple practice:
1.- She / study / English
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2.- We / drink / a cup of tea
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3.- My students / swim / in a lake
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?
4.- Everybody / walk / in the park
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?
2.- Past Simple Uses
- Finished action
She went to a camp last summer
- Speak about the past, we focus on when
Kike was at the doctor’s at quarter past nine
3.- Past simple changes (-d, -ed or –ied)
- You add –ed to form the past simple in regular verbs.
Wait – Waited
- You add –d when the regular verb ends in e.
Use – Used
- You change y into –ied when the regular verb ends in consonant + y.
Marry - Married
http://www.adelescorner.org/grammar/past_tense/past_regular.html practice
http://www.kico4u.de/english/uebungen/unregelmaverb/regel1.htm
@Write the past of the following verbs (regulars) adding -d, -ed or -ied:
- Walk – walked
- Study –
- Use –
- Stay –
- Marry –
- Talk –
- Clean –
- Copy –
- Discover –
- Deny –
- Camp –
- Colour –
@ Write the past of the following verbs (irregulars) 2nd column of the irregular verb list:
- Buy –
- Drink –
- Eat –
- Find –
- Make –
- Meet –
- Sell –
- See –
- Sing –
- Swim –
- Wear –
- Win –
- Write –
ANSWERS
@Write the past of the following verbs (regulars) adding -d, -ed or -ied:
- Walk – walked
- Study – Studied
- Use – Used
- Stay – Stayed
- Marry – Married
- Talk – Talked
- Clean – Cleaned
- Copy – Copied
- Discover – Discovered
- Deny – Denied
- Camp – Camped
- Colour – Coloured
@ Write the past of the following verbs (irregulars) 2nd column of the irregular verb list:
- Buy – Bought
- Drink – Drank
- Eat – Ate
- Find – Found
- Make – Made
- Meet – Met
- Sell – Sold
- See – Saw
- Sing – Sang
- Swim – Swam
- Wear – Wore
- Win – Won
- Write – Wrote
Answers
@ Past Simple practice:
1.- She / study / English
2.- We / drink / a cup of tea
3.- My students / swim / in a lake
Present Simple+ My students swim in a lake
- My students don’t swim in a lake
? Do my students swim in a lake? / Past Simple
+ My students swam in a lake
- My students didn’t swim in a lake
? Did my students swim in a lake?
4.- Everybody / walk / in the park
Present Simple+ Everybody walks in the park
- Everybody doesn’t walk in the park
? Does everybody walk in the park? / Past Simple
+ Everybody walked in the park
- Everybody didn’t walk in the park
? Did everybody walk in the park?