2A Beginnings

Past time phrases

Past Simple
Speaking and
Reading
 noun

verb
grow or change into a
aa service
service station
station more advanced, larger, or 
stronger form
serve someone
serve someone
noun
develop
develop a set of secret
instructions to cook.
aa secret
secret recipe
recipe

verb
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  Harland stayed at home when he was six.
 His mother didn’t have much money in 1890.
 His childhood wasn’t a happy one.
PastSimple

 Harland couldn’t serve everybody when he had his

restaurant.

Irregular verbs
Regular verbs
stop study live stay travel marry die learn need work
There are
There are no
no rules.
rules. You
You have
have to
to
Rules
learn them.
them. They
They are
are on
on page
page example
learn
Most regular verbs:
167. add -ed
167. stayed, learned, needed, worked

Regular verbs ending in –e: add -d lived, died

Regular verbs ending in consonant + y: -y = studied
-i and add -ed married
To talk
To talk about
about the
the past.
past. We
We know
know
when this
this actions
actions happened.
happened. Regular verbs ending in consonant – vowel + stopped
when consonant: double the last consonant travelled
Verb
The
Regular
verb
be can
and Irregular verbs
Positive
Subject + could infinitive
past +simple
was/were + verb + complement.
+verb complement.
complement.

Negative
Subject + couldn’t + complement.
infinitive
+ + infinitive
wasn’t/weren’t
didn’t verb complement.
verb++ complement.

Questions
was/were
did + + subject
(QW) + could + + infinitive
+ subject
subject infinitive verb+ + complement?
verb
+ complement? complement?
Short answers
Yes,/No, + subject pronoun++ could/couldn’t.
subjectpronoun did/didn’t.
was(n’t)/were(n’t).
 Regular verbs Irregular verbs

died needed worked had

became started stopped
came decided developed
made sold continued
visited travelled bought
 developed
made
sold
were
wanted
weren’t
didn’t have couldn’t
didn’t know
could
wanted
needed
wrote
didn’t start
 1 in the nineteenth century

Past time phrases 2 In 1900

3 eighty years ago

4 in the sixties

5 in July last year

6 last week

7 the day before yesterday

8 yesterday evening
COMPLETE WITH AGO, LAST OR IN
 to talk about a time in the past. ago
ago
 to say the day, week, etc. in the past nearest to now. last
last
 with days, months, seasons. last
last
 with night, week, weekend, month, year, century last
last

TIPS  with years and months

 with decades and centuries
in
in
in
in

More past time phrases

 yesterday morning
 yesterday afternoon
 yesterday evening
 the day before yesterday
 on + days of the week
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109

Whichdid
Where oneyou
dideat
youit?
go to?
What didWhat did you eat?
you buy?
Where did you go?
What time did you go to bed?
What did you do?
What
What time did you do?did you buy?
Where did you go?
Students A. Students B