Simple past

->Falar de algo que aconteceu no passado mencionando quando aconteceu

-to be: was/were
-There was/There were (havia, existia, tinha)
-Other verbs
->Affirmative -regular verbs (ed)
-irregular verbs (list, 2ª coluna)
->Negatives: did not (din't)
->Questions: Did...?

Time expressions
Yesterday
Yerterday morning
Yesterday afternoon
Yesterday evening
last night
last week
last weekend
last month
last years
fifteen minutes ago
one hour ago
two days ago
three weeks ago
seven years ago
in 2015
on April 1st
last summer
last world cup

I was at the club yesterday.

She was at home last week.
We were happy at the party last year.
They were very rich people.

I wasn't at the club yesterday.

She wasn't home last week.
We weren't happy at the party last year.
They weren't very rich people.

Were you at the club yesterday?

Was she at home last week?
Were we happy at the party last year?
Were they very rich people?

There was a computer in the class last month.

There were dogs at the park last night.

There wasn't a computer in the class last month.

There weren't dogs at the park last night.

Was there a computer in the class last month?

Were there dogs at the park last night?

Regular verbs (affirmative tenses)

Infinitive Past
to work worked
to walk walked
to like liked
to love loved
to play played
to cry cried

Irregular verbs (affirmative tenses)

Infinitive Past
to do did
to meet met
to have had
to go went
to cut cut
to put put
to hit hit
to read (rid) read (réd)

I did the homework yesterday.

I didn't do the homework yesterday.
Did you do the homework yesterday?

PS. The regular and irregular verbs in the past only change in affirmative
sentences.
In negative sentences and questions they apear like base form.

Infinitive -> to + verb: to play, to go, to do

Base form -> verb: play, go, do

to work worked
to climb climbed
to play played
to travel travelled
to clean cleaned

to help helped
to study studied
to use used
to dance danced
to walk walked

What did you do last week?

I worked.
I traveled.
I played beach tennis.

Yesterday, I worked.
I worked yesterday.