Simple Past Tense

-Form -Meaning and Use -Pronunciation

How do we form the simple past tense?

English has two types of verbs in the past: -regular -irregular

REGULAR AND IRREGULAR VERBS

PRESENT
PICK UP LOOK AFTER SHOUT LAUGH COUNT TRICK CALL

PAST REGULAR
PICKED UP LOOKED AFTER SHOUTED LAUGHED COUNTED TRICKED CALLED

PRESENT PAST IRREGULAR

COME THINK TAKE GIVE BREAK HIDE SEE CAME THOUGHT TOOK GAVE BROKE HID SAW

Regular verbs are verbs that end with -ed

Simple form verbs: walk Past tense verbs:

walked

study

studied

cry

cried

live

lived

Rules for adding ed:

Add ed to most verbs ( muchos llevan ed para formar el
pasado)

Drop the e and add ed to verbs that end with e (smile= smiled). (si ya tiene e solo agrgale la d) Change the y to i and add ed to verbs that end with a consonant and y (carry= carried, study= studied).(si termina en Y y le antecede una consonante
elimina la Y I aumenta ied)

Double the consonant and add ed to verbs that end with one vowel and one consonant ( drag= dragged, stop= stopped).(verbos de una slaba con las tres
ltimas letras consonate vocal consonate se duplica la ltima consonante y se agrega ED)

Irregular verbs are verbs that dont end in ed..

Sometimes with irregular past tense verbs you have to change the vowel to make the verb past tense: ( su forma del verbo cambia en pasado)

become give drive forget

became gave drove forgot

Other irregular verbs have a different kind of change..you need to memorize these! ( otros cambian casi completamente)
teach bring leave hear
taught brought left

heard
bought

buy

Why do we use past tense verbs? ( estas expresiones ayudarn a hacer una
oracin en pasada)

TO TELL THAT AN ACTION IS COMPLETED!!!!!! FINISHED!!! OVER!!!

PRONOUNCIATION OF REGULAR VERBS

The ed ending in English has three different sounds: (pronunciamos ed en tres formas
diferentes)

(t:) walked, talked, jumped

(d:) played, loved, answered

(id): invited, waited decided....

How can you practice past tense verbs?

Phonemically (word sorts) Bingo! Modeling Survey says Nancy Fetzer

Direct instruction + muiltiple opportunities to practice = Skill mastery!!!!!