Day 04

PAST SIMPLE

I
We
You Verb (Past tense)
They
He did, ate, ran
She
It

Examples
1. I did homework.
2. Our dog barked last night.
3. My mother cooked yesterday.
4. We knew the answers.
5. He knew my phone number.

PAST SIMPLE - Negative form

I
We
You
They did not + Infinitive
He (didn't) (go, do, run)
She
It

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 Examples
1. I didn't do homework.
2. Our dog didn't bark last night.
3. My mother didn't cook yesterday.
4. I didn't do it.
5. We didn't know the answer.
6. I didn't know my number.

Interrogative
I
What We
When You
Why Did They Infinitive + Rest?
Where Didn't He (do, go,eat,drink)
How She
It

Examples: -

1. Did you go?

2. Did you know my telephone number?
3. Didn't you know my number?
4. Didn't you come?
5. Why didn't you come?
6. Where did you go last year?

Exercise 1
Turn these sentences into negative and interrogative form

1. She saw your brother.

2. They drank all the wine.
3. They set out early enough.
4. She found her watch.
5. He rode slowly.
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Answers

1. She didn't see your brother.

Did she see your brother?

2. They didn't drink all the wine.

Did they drink all the wine?

3. They didn't set out early enough.

Did they set out early enough?

4. She didn't find her watch.

Did she find her watch?

5. He didn't ride slowly.

Did he ride slowly?

Exercise 2
Put the correct word form.

It all (1) .............(Happen) very quickly. The car (2) ........... (Come) straight out
of the side road and the lorry (3) ....... (Go) into the back of it. The lorry driver
(4)........(Not have) a chance. It (5)…….(be) the car driver's fault. (6) ........(Why
not) the driver of the car (7) ........ (Look) to his right?

Answers
1. Happened
2. Came
3. Went
4. Didn't have
5. Was
6. Why didn't
7. Look

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 Past continuous Past Simple
When we are in the middle of the action Finished work
in the past.
Not finished
1. I was watching TV at 8.00 1. I watched news.
o'clock. 2. We traveled from Colombo.
2. We were travelling from
Colombo at 3.00 o'clock
yesterday.
I was thinking about the problem. I know the number.
I thought you were correct.
"thinking" is the action verb.
Non-action verbs cannot use in the
past continuous tense.
• If you have two verbs, we put longer verbs as continuous tense and
shorter action as past simple tense.

When my mother was cooking, her finger burnt.

When I was going to school, I saw an accident.

Exercise 3

1. I …………. (see) Arosh in town yesterday but he …………... (Not see) me.
He ……………...(look) the other way.

2. I …………. (meet) Rayani and her husband at the railway station a few
weeks ago. They …………. (Go) to Kandy. We …………. (have) a chat
while we ………….(Wait) for our train.

3. I …………. (Drive) to school yesterday when suddenly a boy ………….

(run) out in front of me. I ……...(go) quite fast, but was ………… (manage)
to stop in time. Therefore the car …………. (not/hit) the boy.

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 Answers

1. saw
didn’t see
was looking

2. met
were going
had
were waiting

3. was driving
ran
was going
managed
didn’t hit

Exercise 04

Put the verbs in the brackets into the simple past or past continuous tense.

1. He ……………………….(watch) TV when the phone rang. Very

unwillingly he ……………………(turn) down the sound
and ………………….(go) to answer it.

2. He was very polite. Whenever his wife entered the room

he ……………….(stand) up.

3. When I arrived she …………………………….(have) lunch.

4. He always ……………(wear) a raincoat and ………………(carry) an

umbrella when he walked to the office.

5. What …………………. (you think) of his last book? I ………………(like)

it very much.

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 6. I ……………….(share) a flat with him when we were students. He
always ………………..(complain) about my untidiness.

7. He suddenly ………….(realize) that he …………………..(travel) in the

wrong direction.

8. He …………….(play) the guitar outside his house when someone opened

the window and ………………..(throw) a bucket of water.

Answers

1. was watching, turned, went

2. stood
3. was having
4. wore, carried
5. did you think, liked
6. shared, was complaining
7. realized, was travelling
8. was playing, threw

Terms related to funeral

Refer the dictionary or google the meanings

• Grave
• Cemetery, Graveyard, Burial ground, Church yard, God’s acre,
Memorial park, Marble orchard
• A funeral sermon
• Late-(dead)
• Coffin
• Graveyard-(cemetery)
• At peace
• Gone-(dead)
• Burial
• Dig
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 • At rest
• Tomb
• Cremation
• Departed
• Postmortem
• Coffin nail-cigarette, cancer stick(slang)
• Coffin dodger-an elderly person(slang)
• Kick the bucket-died(slang)

Listening Activity

11.animals
12.tools
13.shoes
14.dogs
15. F
16.G
17.D
18.H
19.B
20.A

Idioms

• It’s best thing since sliced bread. (It’s really really good)
• Take it with pinch of salt. (Don’t take it seriously)
• Come rain or shine. (No matter what)
• See eye to eye. (Agree completely)
• You can say it again. (That’s true)

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