Pronunciation

Ch = tch
charm – cheese – cherry – child – children – choose – chose – chosen – church
– bench – speech – torch

THE SIMPLE PAST TENSE

We use the Simple Past tense when discussing finished time (yesterday, last
year, in 1999 etc).

Regular verbs add -ed to the end. Irregular verbs have to be learned.

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Spelling Tip - Rules for Regular Verbs

Words ending in -e / -d: for example like > liked - hike > hiked

Words ending in -y:- -y becomes -ied : For example worry > worried - cry >
cried

Spelling Tip - Rules for Irregular Verbs

First rule: There are no rules!

be > was/were do > did have > had go > went

Past Tense Irregular

| Change Form
• bend | bent
• get | got
• go | went
• have | had
• hold | held
• make | made
• run | ran
• see | saw
• take | took
• think | thought
• throw | threw

Past Tense Irregular

| No Change
• hit | hit
• put | put
• hurt | hurt

Past Tense Negative

| Did Not •
I did not see him.
• We didn't tell anyone.
• I did not work.
• I didn’t sleep much.

1. When he _______ (be) a boy he _______ (like) his job, it _______ (be)
fun.
2. I _______ (eat) breakfast at 6.00 am this morning.
3. I _______ (cycle) home from work.
4. We _______ (go) to the cinema last night.
5. They _______ (be) very good students, they always _______ (do) their
homework.
6. When he _______ (be) the boss he never _______ (walk) to work, he
always _______ (drive).
7. When I _______ (start) teaching I _______ (teach) for a language school.
8. The dog (bark – deny)
9. Why ________________ (you not pass) the English test?
10.When ________________ (it start) to rain?
11.I (not/drink) (some/any) beer last night.
12.She (get on) the bus in the centre of the city.
13.What time (he/get up) yesterday?
14.Where (you/get off) the train?
15. (she/make) good coffee?
16.He (have) a shower.
17.Last year I (spend) my holiday in Ireland.
18.One night we even (learn) (any/some) Irish dances.
19.We (be) very lucky with the weather.
20.But we (see) (any/some) beautiful rainbows.
21.The children at home last weekend. (not/to be)
22.When you this wonderful skirt? ( to design)
23.He milk at school. (to drink)
24.She (see) fire.
25.You (tidy up) your room.
26.Olivia (to become) an actress.
27.We (to find) the treasure.
28.Mammoths big animals, bigger than elephants. (be).
29.They two large tusks about three metres long. (have)
30.He some milk. He any water. (drink / not drink)
31.They in the sea, but they in the lake. (swim / not swim)
32.We (book) two tickets for the show.
33.Were you (frighten) ___ of the dark when you were young?
34.I (feel) so tired that I went straight to bed.
35.We (grow) ___ this tree from a seed.
36.She (lose) ___ her way home.
37.He thought I (steal) his umbrella
38.He to her about the music. (to speak)
39.Jake a new camera. (to buy)
 40.He a new song. (to write)

Last year

I (to visit) my mother and ( to study) French. I ( not to have)

(many/much) problems and I (to make) a lot of friends. I  ( to go)
(for/to) the USA and ( to learn) English a lot too. I  ( to
see) different places and ( to have) time to take pictures. I ( not
to drink) beer, I ( to drink) only soda. I  ( to eat) barbecue and (
to sleep) late (in/at/on) weekends. I ( to start) a business and  ( to
work) a lot. My business ( to help) me learn and understand things. I
( not to want) to live in the USA because I love Brazil. My life  ( to change)
and I ( to have) (much/many) things to do every day. I also (to
finish) what I (to start) (at/on/in) 2003: (a/an) English course. I ( not to
lose) (something/anything), I only ( to win). This was the best
year of my life. Everything  ( to go) fine.

A Goodbye To 'The Good Place'

Endings ( to be) sad, but without (their/theirs/them), nothing matters.

That (to be in the past) only one of the lessons of the thoughtful, emotional
finale of NBC's The Good Place, which itself ( to end in the past) after four
seasons and only 52 episodes. But, as the show itself stressed in (it/its) last
couple of installments, heaven ( to be) not continuing forever: It's leaving at
the right time, when you've done your work. When you're ready.

Creator Michael Schur, who also ( to be in the past) behind Parks &
Recreation, ( to habe) a kind of grudging, aggravated optimism that echoes
in a lot of (him/his) work. The Good Place was full of reminders of how petty
and nasty (person/people) can be when they're not specifically trying to
discipline (them/their) (bad/worse/worst) instincts. It (to be in the
past) also emphatic about the fact that it's almost impossible to successfully
weave your way through the complicated world of trying to be decent, given
the way our current systems of commerce and government work. Similarly, the
(person/people) we ( to know in the past) in Pawnee, Ind., ( to be in
the past) constantly (besiege in the past) by smallness and disappointment —
remember how Leslie Knope's beautiful dream of elected office ended the first
time.

But The Good Place, like Parks, ( to become in the past) a show about the
fact that even given those setbacks and disappointments, people can be good,
can do good, can grant each other grace. And more than Parks, The Good
Place became a playfully direct and explicit exploration of that idea.
( more early) on, the show was more about Eleanor, a self-proclaimed dirtbag
in life trying in the afterlife to become good through concerted effort, with the
help of her friends: Chidi, (hers/her) teacher; Tahani, her nemesis-turned-
friend; Jason, the Floridian dingdong DJ she ( to adore in the past); Janet,
(that/who) is not a girl or a robot; and Michael, her tormentor-turned-ally. She
learned to sacrifice, to tell the truth, to be better, to persevere. And she
became a leader. She learned to step in when no one knew what to do.
This season, though — especially the last (little/few) episodes — ( to seem)
less about ( to learn) what it ( to mean) to be good, which all of
(ours/our) friends on the show already were, and more about (accept) what it
means to be human. Longstanding notions of heaven, have a very particular
weirdness to (their/theirs/them) that I think was ultimately too much for that
limited, humanist, often frustrated optimism to swallow: that paradise is doing
whatever you want, forever.

One problem with a traditional heaven (pardon me (during/while) I critique

ancient notions of the afterlife; it's that kind of television show) is that
(during/while) it (to work) well as a reward, as a carrot to dangle as
the payoff for (to be) good ( during/while) (in/at/on) earth, it is so far
removed from human experience that it ( no to say) very much about
humanity. But when we long for happiness on earth, is it for that? Is it because
we want all the flavors of ice cream and a pony? ( to do) whatever we
want forever?