Past Simple Tense

Presenter
Mr. Mohammed Hassan
 The Simple Past Tense is used
1.To talk about actions that happened at a specific time in
the past.
“Last year I took my exams”.
“Yesterday we visited our grandparents.“

2. It can be used to describe events that happened over a

period of time in the past but not now:
"I lived in Asia for two years.“
"I studied in London for four years.“

3. It is also used to talk about habitual or repeated actions

that took place in the past:

"When I was a child we always went to the seaside on bank holidays."
Yesterday I went for a swim.
 PAST SIMPLE TENSE: REGULAR VERBS

Affirmative:
The past tense of regular verbs is formed
by adding –d or –ed to the base form of the verb.

I worked hard last weekend

They helped me with my
homework.
I lived in a big house when I was
younger.
 Regular verbs list
Present past P.P Present past P.P
Help helped helped Answer Answered Answered
Open opened opened Ask Asked Asked
Play played played Burn Burned Burned
Study studied studied Avoid Avoided Avoided
Move moved moved Collect Collected Collected
Add added added Count Counted Counted
Accept accepted accepted Drop dropped dropped
Agree Agreed Agreed Earn Earned Earned
Allow Allowed Allowed Enjoy enjoyed enjoyed
Boil Boiled Boiled End Ended Ended
Admire Admired Admired Invent Invented Invented
Advise Advised Advised Guide Guided Guided
Arrive arrived arrived Need needed needed
 ed Spelling Rules-

:Most regular verbs add ed )1

)Worked, Played, waited(

:Verbs ending in e add d )2

)Liked, loved(

Vowel + 1 consonant 1 )3
:Double the consonant + ed
)Planned, stopped(
 Time expressions
Time expressions:

Yesterday, last month, last year, last time, …

ago, in 1998

My friends travelled to Saudi Arabia

two years ago.
We met at a party last weekend.
She had salad for lunch yesterday.
Past simple
tense:
Short Short
Affirmative Negative Questions answer answer

Did you
I worked. I didn't work. Yes, I did. No, I didn't.
work?

He worked. He didn't work. Did he work? Yes, he did. No, he didn't.

Yes, she No, she

She worked. She didn't work. Did she work?
did. didn't.

It worked. It didn't work. Did it work? Yes, it did. No, it didn't.

No, you
You worked. You didn't work. Did you work? Yes you did.
didn't.
No, we
We worked. We didn't work. Did we work? Yes we did.
didn't.
They didn't Did they Yes they No,they
They worked.
work. work? did. didn't.
 REGULAR VERBS
EXERCISE

https://wordwall.net/resource/792271/past-simple-regular-verbs
 Simple Past Tense: Irregular verbs

Affirmative:
Irregular past verb forms must be learned because
they don’t follow any rule:
Go went
Come came
Buy bought
Drink drank
Eat ate I went to Paris last July
Find found
See saw
 Simple Past Tense of (Be)

I
He You
was
She we were
It They
I was in Yanbu three days ago.
They were students in Taibah University last year.
 Simple Past Tense of (Do)

I
He You
did
She we did
It They
I did my homework yesterday.
They did their exercise two hours ago.
Simple Past Tense of (have)

I
You
He had
She we had
It They

I had my breakfast fifteen minutes ago.

 Watch
a video about irregular verbs
 IRREGULAR VERBS
EXERCISE

https://wordwall.net/resource/185595/irregular-verbs-past-simple
Watch the video and extract both regular
and irregular verbs from the conversation
 PAST SIMPLE TENSE
EXERCISE

https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verb-tenses_past_quiz.htm
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