1. A Grammar Review Practice
Simple Past
A Grammar Review
Practice
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2. Simple Past - A Time line
The Simple past tense time line looks like this!
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Beginning in the past Ending in past
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3. Grammar When is it Used? Words Used To describe events in the past
To describe completed events at a certain point in time, date, time.
Words Used
Yesterday
Last week
Last month
Last year
An hour a go
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4. Examples Questions I went to work at 7.00 o’clock yesterday.
I didn’t go to the movies last Saturday.
I finished my homework an hour ago.
Questions
What did you eat for dinner? I ate pizza.
Where did he live? He lived in Rome.
When did she get married? She, got married in 1997.
Did they go away for the summer holidays? No, they didn’t.
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5. Regular Verbs Regular Verbs end in ‘ed’
Rules
Just add ‘ed’ to the infinitive of the verb. e.g. talk/talked,
end/ended, walk/walked.
Just add ‘d’ if verb ends in ‘e’. e.g. arrive/arrived, like/liked.
If the verb ends with a consonant and a ‘y’ then change the ‘y’ into ‘I’ ad add ‘ed’. e.g. carry/carried, cry/cried.
Try these! Change them to the past!
talk
carry
marry
cry
ask
smoke
need
follow
open
end
Close
try
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6. Irregular Verbs Irregular Verbs just have to be learnt! think eat putgo
come
have
become
got
break
take
catch
think
eat
put
write
bring
feel
leave
teach
hold
feed
meet
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7. A Writing Exercise
Write about your daily activities yesterday. Use the following words to help you!
Get up , have a shower, get dressed, pray, eat breakfast, go to college, start college, break, eat lunch, finish college, go home, relax, do homework, exercise, eat dinner, watch television, read, go to bed.
Also use ‘connecting word’ to join your sentences!
Then, after that, next, and then
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8. Do you know how to…. Practice writing and talking about the above.
Talk and write about actions that are completed in the past?
Remember, the simple past can talk about actions along time ago. e.g. The First World War began in 1914. Or
Actions that just finished a few minutes ago. e.g. I finished my lunch five minutes ago.
Practice writing and talking about the above.
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