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English
Quarter 4 – Week 3:
Compose Clear and Coherent
Sentences Using Appropriate
Grammatical Structures (Verb
Tenses, Conjuntions, Adverbs)
Name of Learner :__________________________________________________
Grade and Section : ________________________________________________________
Date : ________________________________________________________

LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET IN ENGLISH VI

Fourth Quarter – Week 3
VERB TENSES
Lesson Title

I. Background Information

The Simple Past Tense

The Past Tense is used to express the following:

1. A definite completed action in the past. Time expressions such as in the past,
the day before, yesterday, recently, in 2020, a little while ago, an hour ago, this
morning, when I was born, one week ago, last week, last month and others are used
to indicate past time.
Our country experienced a long drought last year.
2. A habitual or repeated action in the past
However, a month ago, it rained almost every day.
3. A condition or situation in the past
Mrs. Grey owned a bakery.
She seemed to lose hope for rain to come.

4. An event with duration in the past.

Mrs. Grey managed the shop for 20 years.

Her husband tended their farm for almost three decades.

The past tense forms of verbs go with any noun or pronoun subject. Not all verbs
have past forms ending in –ed.

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Regular verbs are verbs whose past form end in –ed.
Present Tense Past Tense Past Participle

Talk Talked Talked

Rumble Rumbled Rumbled
Cry Cried Cried
Stop Stopped Stopped
Walk Walked Walked
Reveal Revealed Revealed
Confirm Confirmed Confirmed
Want Wanted Wanted
Start Started Started
Count Counted Counted

Irregular verbs are verbs with different past forms as in the following:

Present Tense Past Tense Past Participle

Speak Spoke Spoken

Break Broke Broken
Hold Held Held
Throw Threw Thrown
Catch Caught Caught
Build Built Built
Begin Began Begun
Blow Blew Blown
Break Broke Broken
Buy Bought Bought

Please refer the complete list of the irregular verbs in Webster’s New Explorer
Dictionary (New Edition) pages 680-684.

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II-Compose clear and coherent sentences using appropriate grammatical
structures (verb tenses, conjuntions, adverbs)ENRC-1g-2.24.2

III- Activity No. 1

A. Directions: Fill in the blanks with the past tense of the verb.

1. The lady guard (drive)______ her motorcycle a while ago.

2. I (see) _____ you in the beach last week.
3. The ambassador (arrive) _____ last night from Switzerland.
4. Cecilia and Maria (go)______ to the book fair last week end.
5. The seminar (start)______ with a short program a while ago.
6. The boy (introduce)_______ himself to his new classmates this morning.
7. The man (buy) _______ a new suit two weeks ago.
8. Man (travel) _________ fast in those days.
9. Rose (tell) me an interesting story yesterday.
10.I (visit) my grandparents last Monday.

IV- Activity II

A. Directions: Use the following simple past tense verbs in meaningful sentences.

Example: My teacher came very early this morning.

1. learned _______________________________________________

2. taught ________________________________________________

3. rang _________________________________________________

4. broke __________________________________________________

5. invited __________________________________________________

VI- Guide Questions:

Directions: Answer the following questions completely:

1.How do you form the verbs in the past tense?

2.How do you differentiate the regular verbs from the irregular verbs?
3. What is the function of the simple past tense?

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 VII. REFLECTION
1. What have you learned about this lesson?
2. Do you find it important to learn this lesson? Support your answer.

VIII. REFERENCES
Joy in Learning English 6, pp. 29-30, by Agnes P. Galapon, Carmelita A.
Relente, Evelyn V. Angeles, Skill book in English Grammar and Usage Third Year ,
pp. 15-43 by Marites Alejo Eugenio

IX. ANSWER KEY

Activity No. 1
1. drove
2. saw
3. arrived
4. went
5. started
6. introduced
7. bought
8. traveled
9. told
10. visited

Activity No. 2

Answer may vary

Prepared by:

CHONA R. UY
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