Liceo Ruiz Tagle

Coordinación Académica E. Básica

Taller de Inglés
Miss Bárbara Gómez Recabarren

“Welcome back to school: Contents review”

Unit 0
Name: Grade: II A / B
Teacher’s email: barbara.gomez@liceoruiztagle.cl
Date: Lesson’s at school
Objective: Students will be able to recognize and apply contents (vocabulary / grammar) related
to Past simple and Past Continuous tenses.
General Instructions:
 You have to develop this worksheet at home.
 You can use a pen or pencil.
 Use your dictionary of you do not know the meaning of a word.
 You have to present this worksheet when we come back to lesson at school. (There will
be accumulative points for working)
 When you finish the exercises, you have to glue this worksheet in your notebook. (write
the date in English in your notebook)

PAST SIMPLE USE

 To talk about actions completed in the past, for example when we describe a sequence of events
e.g. He came out of the door, locked it, got into his car and drove away

 To talk about past situations (situations that are not true now). For example, we can use it to
describe earlier times in our lives: e.g. I was a waiter when I lived in Spain

 We often say when something happened. Sometimes we don’t say when something happened
because we understand what point in time in the past we are talking about:
e.g. What did you do last night?
I listened to some music, I read a book and then I went to bed. ( = last night)
GRAMMAR STRUCTURE
AFFIRMATIVE Regular VERBS forms: (affirmative
sentences)
I/you/he / she / it /we/they + VERB IN PAST +
 We form the past simple by adding -ed
COMPLEMENT
to the verb
Walk walked visit VISITED
I walkED to the school
You writeD poems.
She danceD pop music  For verbs ending with -e we add -d
He studIED English live lived love loved

 For verbs ending with a consonant

and –y delete –y and add –ied
CArry carried try tried
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Coordinación Académica E. Básica
Taller de Inglés
Miss Bárbara Gómez Recabarren

 For many verbs ending with one vowel and

one consonant, we double the last letter
and add -ed
Stop stopped
plan planned

NEGATIVE Questions

I/you/he / she / it /we/they + DID NOT DID + I/you/he/she/it/we/they+ VERB

(DIDN’T) + VERB (infinitive) + COMPLEMENT (infinitive) + COMPLEMENT?

I didn’t walk to school DID you walk to school? Yes, I did

You didn’t write poems. DID they write poems.? No, they didn’t
She didn’t study Maths DID she study Maths? No, she didn’t
He didin’t dance salsa DID he dance salsa? Yes, I did

Irregular verbs forms

Many very common verbs are irregular
Go went come came do did
Speak spoke run ran have had
Take took see saw buy bought
Think thought leave left make made
Be was / were

PAST TIME EXPRESSIONS

AGO – YESTERDAY – LAST – IN

e.g. Three years ago
Yesterday morning
Last Saturday
In 2009
 Liceo Ruiz Tagle
Coordinación Académica E. Básica
Taller de Inglés
Miss Bárbara Gómez Recabarren

Past continuous use

 For actions and situations that were in progress at a particular time in the past
(e.g. in 1981, at 6.00 a.m. yesterday morning)
e.g. At 7:30 p.m. last night, I was playing a video game, my sister was doing her homework and
my parents were reading.
 To describe the situation at the beginning of a story or narrative.
 For an action in progress before or at the time of the simple past action
GRAMMAR STURUCTURE
AFFIRMATIVE The –ing form
 For most verbs, add –ing
You / We / They + WERE + VERB(ing) + Compl. Work working
play playing
You were doing your homework.
We were studying for the test.
 For verbs ending –e, take away –e and add
I / He / She / It + WAS + VERB(ing) + Compl. –ing
Take taking
At 8:45 last Saturday, I was working in my office.
She was working with her family write writing

 For many verbs (one syllable) ending with

one vowel and one consonant, double the
last letter and add -ing
Run running
sit sitting

negative questions

You / We / They + WERE NOT (WEREN’T) + WERE + You / We / They + VERB(ing) + Compl.
VERB(ing) + Compl.
Were you doing your homework?
You weren´t doing your homework. Were we studying for the test?
We weren’t studying for the test.
WAS + I / He / She / It + VERB(ing) + Compl.
I / He / She / It + WAS NOT (WASN’T) +
VERB(ing) + Compl. At 8:45 last Saturday, was he working in my office?
WAS she working with her family
At 8:45 last Saturday, I wasn´t working in my office.
She wasn’t working with her family
 Liceo Ruiz Tagle
Coordinación Académica E. Básica
Taller de Inglés
Miss Bárbara Gómez Recabarren

EXERCISES
I. Complete the spaces of the two lists below related to irregular verbs

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Coordinación Académica E. Básica
Taller de Inglés
Miss Bárbara Gómez Recabarren

II. Complete with WAS / WASN’T or WERE / WEREN’T to make true sentences.

III. Complete the dialogs in the past tense. Use the verbs in parenthesis.
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Coordinación Académica E. Básica
Taller de Inglés
Miss Bárbara Gómez Recabarren

IV. Complete the story with the simple past form of the verbs in parenthesis
 Liceo Ruiz Tagle
Coordinación Académica E. Básica
Taller de Inglés
Miss Bárbara Gómez Recabarren

V. Look at the pictures and write sentences. Use the simple past and past continuous

VI. Complete the story with the simple past or past continuous of the verbs in parenthesis.