1. The Simple Past Tense

2. Give action words..

3. Stand up if the words are verb. Claps if it is not a verb.

4. sing good dances clean recited slept met borrowed

5. What is a verb?

6. The simple past tense of the verb is used to show an action that happened in the past. The time expressions yesterday, last week, a while ago, this morning, last month are used.

7. The regular verbs form their past tense by adding d or ed to the base forms. Examples: clean-cleaned borrow-borrowed recite-recited

8. copy-copied study-studied receive-received fry-fried jog-jogged play-played

9. The irregular verbs form their past tense by changing the spelling of the word. Examples: sleep-sleptsing-sang get-gotcome-came meet-metleave-left

10. stand-stoodspeak-spoke buy-boughtrun-ran bring-broughtdraw-drew sweep-sweptsaw-see sell-soldgo-went write-wroteteach-taught

11. eat-ate give-gave feed-fed shake-shook make-made

12. Choose the correct verb inside the parenthesis. 1. They (visit, visited) their relatives in the province last month. 2. The driver (drove, drived) the car yesterday very slowly.

13. 3. Teresa (sweep, swept) the floor this morning. 4. Mother (cook, cooked) delicious cake last month. 5. The carpenters (work, worked) very fast a while ago.

14. Group Work

15. Write 5 sentences using the correct verb.

16. Presentation

17.  What is a verb?  How does regular verbs from their past?  How does irregular verbs from their past?

18. Directions: Choose the correct verb inside the parenthesis. 1. I (draw, drew) the parts of the skin yesterday.

19. 2. I (go, went) to the farm last Monday. 3. Last month, we (visits, visited) our grandmother in the province.

20. 4. Mother (buy, bought) me a cake on my birthday. 5. Andre (leave, left) the school early.

21. Assignment Write 5 sentences using the simple past tense of the verb.

22. Spelling 1. Hopeful 2. Lovely 3. Meeting 4. Scrape 5. Perfect 6. Eyesight 7. Awfully 8. Swallow 9. Climbing 10. rooftop