Warm Up Questions

1. Who cooked dinner for you last night?

2. What was the first movie you watched this year?

3. When was the last time you walked on the beach?

4. Have you travelled before?

 Simple Past Tense

We use the simple past tense to talk about things that happened in the
past.

Time words that we use include:

Yesterday

Last Week

Last month

… years ago
 Simple Past Tense
We use the grammar point:

Subject + Verb ( -ed ) + Object

For example:
• She visits Grandma.
She visited Grandma yesterday.

• My friend watches a movie.

My friend watched a movie last night.

• Tom turns 13.

Tom turned 13 three years ago.
 Read the dialogue
Can you spot the simple past tense verbs?
They usually end in -ed
Hello, what
countries Hey, I wanted
have you to travel to
visited? Spain last year.

Spain is beautiful. We It rained everyday

walked everywhere. when my friend
went a month ago.

Oh no. We tasted
some delicious food Where did
there. you stay?

We stayed
in a small
house. That’s great! Was
it amazing?
Yes, we
loved our
trip.
 Match the words
Simple tense words:

Listen Look
Live

Learn
Laugh

Past tense words:

Looked Lived

Laughed Listened
Learned

Reveal Answer
 Change the verb to past tense

• When the exam (start), I was ready. started

• Last year I (need) a new mobile phone. needed

• We (play) in the basketball team three years ago. played

• They (wash) their hands before they ate dinner. washed

• Mom (wait) for me for five hours. waited

• I (fix) the bicycle with my sister. fixed

• You (paint) your bedroom last week. painted

Reveal Answer
 Fill in the gaps
• She opened her diary from two years ago.

• They enjoyed their teacher from last year.

• It snowed so much last Christmas.

• The kittens followed their mother everywhere.

• The actor greeted his fans with a wave.

• When we were children, we jumped on the bed.

snowed enjoyed greeted

jumped followed opened

Reveal Answer
 Make the sentence past tense

• The student closes the door behind him.

The student closed the door behind him.

• They love to get presents for their birthday.

They loved to get presents for their birthday.

• She turns left at the school.

She turned left at the school.

• It tastes delicious!
It tasted delicious!

Reveal Answer
 What happened?
Use the words given below to create a simple past sentence

+ shop

We shopped so much in Italy last month.

Reveal Answer
 What happened?
Use the words given below to create a simple past sentence

+ cook

Dad cooked a delicious dinner last night.

Reveal Answer
 What happened?
Use the words given below to create a simple past sentence

+ open

They opened the treasure chest last year.

Reveal Answer
 What happened?
Use the words given below to create a simple past sentence

+ ask

The student asked how to answer the question.

Reveal Answer
 What happened?
Use the words given below to create a simple past sentence

+ arrive

His parcel arrived last week.

Reveal Answer
 What happened?
Use the words given below to create a simple past sentence

+ move

The family moved to a new house ten years ago.

Reveal Answer
 Find the Ship!
Choose a verb then make a past tense sentence using that verb.
Try to capture as many ships as you can!

Stay Live Cook Start Help Walk

Watch Learn Rain Visit Look Decide

Wash Finish Listen Need Smell Laugh

Clean Paint Wait Fix Wave Dance

Change Remember Open Move Ask Bump

Arrive Shop Count Enjoy Climb Cheer

 Bonus Challenge!
Sometimes when we change verbs into past tense, we don’t simply add -ed. We
change them quite a lot!
They are called irregular verbs. See if you can change the following irregular verbs
into past tense.

Try Get Wake Take Win Lose

Tried Got Woke Took Won Lost

Do Sell Pay See Leave Fly

Did Sold Paid Saw Left Flew