Past

Past simple
simple
 Past simple
USE
• The past simple is used to talk about actions which
happened in the past.

• Expressions of time:
last night yesterday
last week in 1998
last month when I was a child
last year (…)
 Affirmative
FORM

REGULAR VERBS: Subject + Verb -ed…

Last week I played a football match.
Yesterday I listened to music.

IRREGULAR VERBS: Subject + Verb (2nd column)

We went skateboarding last weekend.
I broke my arm.
 Spelling rules
• Most verbs: add –ED: listen  listened

• Verbs ending in –E, add –D: live  lived

• Verbs ending in CONSONANT+Y: change

Y to I and add –ED: worry  worried

• Verbs ending in CONSONANT + VOWEL +

CONSONANT: double the last consonant
and add -ED: stop  stopped.
 Past simple
Negative
Subject + didn’t + Verb (infinitive)…
did not

Regular verb: I didn’t play a football match yesterday.

Irregular verb: She didn’t go to Barcelona last weekend.

 Past simple
Interrogative and Answers

Did + Subject + Verb (infinitive)…?

Regular verb: Did you play a football match yesterday?

- Yes, I did.
- No, I didn’t.

Irregular verb: Did she go to Barcelona last weekend?

- Yes, she did.
- No, she didn’t.
 The past simple –
irregular forms
• There are some verbs which have an irregular form for
the past simple. These are some examples:
be was / were
find found
go went
have  had
make made
meet met
write wrote