ENGLISH III

The Simple Past Tense

 Lesson aim
• To understand and use the past tense, to
know the form of the regular and irregular
past.
• Students will be able to use the past tense to
tell about states that happened in the past,
talk about their biography and form questions
using the past tense.
 How do we form the simple past tense?

There are two types of verbs in the past tense:

REGULAR VERBS AND IRREGULAR VERBS

Look at the following list of past tense verbs…

Which verbs are REGULAR and which are
IRREGULAR?
needed regular came irregular
played regular bought irregular
studied regular became irregular
jumped regular caught irregular
 Regular verbs are verbs that…
end with –ed.
Infinitive Form Past Form
• play played
• live lived
• work worked
• study studied
 Irregular verbs are verbs that…
don’t end with –ed.
InfinitiveForm Past Tense
• get got
• go went
• give gave
• drive drove
• have had
• see saw
• take took
• drive drove
• buy bought
• learn learnt
 And some Irregular Verbs don’t
change at all…
Example:
InfinitiveForm Past
• hit hit
• put put
• cut cut
For Regular Verbs, simply use the –ed form of
the verb in a positive sentence.
Example:
Yesterday, mom worked at the office until eight
o’clock.

Melissa lived and studied in Piura when she was a

child.

Be careful with spelling changes!

 For Irregular Verbs use the correct past
tense form in positive sentences.

Unfortunately, these forms must be memorized!

Last week, I sent you a present for your birthday.

The girl gave a speech in English.

She did a great job!
Examples

We ate cherries
last week.
Examples

I made a big cake last

night.
•We went to the museum last week.
We drank tea and ate biscuits after the game.
Yesterday I went for a swim.
 For negative sentences use…
Did not or didn’t + verb
Infinitive form

I went to the party yesterday.

Andrea didn’t go to the party yesterday

because she was sick.
•I didn’t go to the party
• You didn’t do the homework
• He didn’t play football
• She didn’t sing the song
• They didn’t have babies.
interrogative

Did I go?
Did you go?
Did he go? •Did you play tennis?
Did she go? Yes. I did
Did it go?
•Did she
s see the handsome boy?
Did we go?
Yes, she did
Did you go?
Did they go? •Did she buy a black dog?
No, she didn’t
•Did they have twins?
Yes, They did
Meaning and Use
 List of irregular verbs
Infinitive - Past simple
•Be - was / were
•Buy - bought
•Come - came
•Do - did
•Drink - drank
•Eat - ate
•Feel - felt
•Forget - forgot
•Get - got
•Give - gave
•Go - went
• Have - had sleep - slept
• Hear - heard see - saw
• Know - knew speak - spoke
• Make - made take - took
• Leave - left tell - told
• Lose - lost think - thought
• Meet - met write - wrote
• Pay - paid
• Put - put
• Read - read
• Run - ran
• Say - said
 Links
• http://www.agendaweb.org/verbs/
past_simple-ex
• http://www.englishexercises.org/
makeagame/viewgame.asp?
id=7798ercises.html
• http://www.englishexercises.org/
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