PAST EXPERIENCES I

Módulo 7

Pre-beginner 2
2020- 1

Videoconferencie 8
LESSON OBJECTIVES

PAST EXPERIENCES I

At the end of the lesson you will be

able to:
• Talk about weekend activities.

• Use sentences in simple past (regular verbs)

and time expressions.
Greetings:

Good afternoon
Good morning

Good evening
MORE GREETINGS
 PAST EXPERIENCES

Dennis played the guitar. Dennis works in an office.

Before

Luz studied Engish. Luz sings romantic music.

Weekend activities

listen to music play in a band shop for new clothes play basketball

stay home stay out late visit relatives watch an old movie
Carmen’s weekend

Read and number the pictures

1. Last Saturday morning, my brother Pedro called me. We talked for hours. I
uploaded some photos, and I listened to music.

2. I stayed out late on Saturday night. Pedro and I watched an old movie. We
laughed a lot. We loved it!

3. On Saturday afternoon, I stayed home. I watched another movie. I didn´t like

the ending at all. I cried.

A B C
Carmen’s weekend

Read and number the pictures.

1. Last Saturday morning, my brother Pedro called me. We talked for hours. I
uploaded some photos, and I listened to music.

2. I stayed out late on Saturday night. Pedro and I watched an old movie. We
laughed a lot. We loved it!

3. On Saturday afternoon, I stayed home. I watched another movie. I didn´t like the
ending at all. I cried.
3 1 2

A B C
Weekend activities in PAST

shopped for new

listened to music played in a band played basketball
clothes

stayed home stayed out late visited relatives watched an old movie
Simple Past
The Simple Past
presents an
action or a state
from the past.
Regular
verbs
And
Irregular
verbs
GRAMMAR

REGULAR VERBS

SPELLING
 Structure- Affirmative

Subject Verb in simple complement time

past expression

George played soccer yesterday

Denise watched TV last year

I studied English last night

What did he do yesterday?

He listened to music.
What did Mrs. Harris do?

She washed the dog.

What did Mrs. Smith do?
She exercised all day.
More examples related
to regular verbs:
•He listened to music.
•She washed the dog.
•Mrs. Perez exercised
all day.
THE SIMPLE PAST TENSE : RULES

Regular Verbs: spelling rules

• Form the past tense of most verbs by
adding –ed to the base form.
play played
work worked

• For verbs ending in –e or –ie, add –d

smile smiled
tie tied
• For one- syllable verbs ending in one
vowel + one consonant, double the
consonant and add –ed.
stop stopped
plan planned

• Two syllable verbs ending in one vowel

+ one vowel + one consonant: If the
first syllable is stressed, add –ed
vi - sit visited
• If the second syllable is stressed,
double the consonant and add –ed
pre - fer preferred

• For verbs ending in a consonant and –

y, change –y to –i and add –ed.
study studied

IRREGULAR VERBS DO NOT USE -ED

Pronunciation of regular verbs

/id/ /d/ /t/

painted opened watched

visited arrived washed
needed danced finished
climbed cooked
raced dropped
played laughed
 Structure- Negative

Auxiliar + Base +
Subject
+ didn’t form verb Complement + Time expression.

Luis didn’t go to the beach yesterday

Alice didn’t study Math last year

They didn’t do aerobics last weekend

What did he do yesterday?

He listened to music,
but he didn’t study.
What did Mrs. Harris do?

She washed the dog,

but she didn’t clean
her house.
What did Mrs. Smith do?

She exercised all day,

but she didn’t eat salad.
PICTURE STORY
Look at the pictures of John and Alice. What did they do last weekend? Complete the sentences
with the verbs from the box.
fix dance watch shop clean
1 2 3 4 5

1. John and Alice _______________ the house.

2. John ______________ TV.
3. Alice ________________ the bicycle.
4. John and Alice ________________ for clothes.
5. John and Alice _______________ in their friends’ party.
PICTURE STORY
Look at the pictures of John and Alice. What did they do last weekend? Complete the sentences
with the verbs from the box.
fix dance watch shop clean
1 2 3 4 5

1. John and Alice _______________ the house.

2. John ______________ tv.
3. Alice ________________ the bicycle.
4. John and Alice ________________ for clothes.
5. John and Alice _______________ in their friends’ party.
PAST SIMPLE
LET’S PRACTICE

Complete the following sentences using the correct time expression.

Last month

Last month.

Yesterday

yesterday

Two days ago

two days ago.

He___ the flowers two hours
ago.

watered waters was watering

They _______ tennis yesterday.

were playing don’t play didn’t play

 They_____ yesterday.

study didn’t studied didn’t study

 He _____ this last month.

paint painted didn’t painted

 It ____ last summer.

rained rainned rains

What are you doing? II

REVIEW
Bob Sponge’s last weekend
Complete the sentences. Use the verbs from the box.

watch call dance play

1
2 3 4

called
1. In the morning, he _____________________Patricio.
didn’t play
2. They ___________________ tennis. They played soccer.
played
3. He _____________________ the guitar.
4. didn’t watch TV. He read a book.
He ________________
AFFIRMATIVE SENTENCES

For regular verbs, simply use the –ed form of the verb in a positive sentence.

She played the piano.

I visited Paris.
NEGATIVE SENTENCES

I
He
She
It
We
You
They

I didn’t play tennis yesterday.

We didn’t dance at the party last Saturday.

PAST SIMPLE
CONCLUSIONS

What did we learn? Can you give examples of the following

structures?

Past simple

Regular verbs in affirmative

Regular verbs in negative

PAST EXPERIENCES I

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