Touchstone 2nd Edition • Language summary • Level 1

Unit 10 • Lesson A: A night at home

Vocabulary
Activities
cook dinner (v)
go grocery shopping (v)
invite (over) (v)
practice (a musical instrument) (v)
run errands (v)
stay home (v)
try to (do something) (v)
work late (v)

Free time
flute (n)
party (n)
computer / video game (n)

Other words
just (adv)
then (adv)
so (conj)
while (conj)

Past tense endings: regular verbs

chatted (chat) (v)
invited (invite) (v)
played (play) (v)
studied (study) (v)
watched (watch) (v)

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Touchstone 2nd Edition • Language summary • Level 1

Grammar
Simple past statements – regular verbs
You can use the simple past to talk about the time before now – the past.

Affirmative statements

Use subject + verb + -ed:

I played a video game.

Negative statements

Use subject + didn't (= did not) + verb:

I didn't play chess.

The form of simple past is the same for all subjects (I, you, he, she, we, and they).

Simple past endings

Regular simple past verbs end in -ed.

• For most verbs add -ed:

He watched a movie.

• For verbs ending in -e, add –d:

My friends invited me to a party.

• For verbs ending in a consonant + -y, change the y to an i and add -ed:
You studied math.

• For verbs ending in a vowel and a consonant, double the consonant and add -ed:
They chatted online.

Remember, a consonant is any letter that is not a vowel (a, e, i, o, u).

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