1. THE Simple Past Tense

2. Verbs can be
regular
irregular (2nd column in the list of irregular verbs)
watch - watched stay – stayed phone - phoned arrive – arrived stop - stopped drop – dropped cry - cried try - tried
be – was, were go –went have – had come – came teach - tought

3. Positive form
Tom stayed in bed. I wanted to find a clock. Helen went to a wedding. It was horrible. Someone took it while we were away.

4. Negative form Verb TO BE Other verbs We weren’t home.
Their son wasn’t with him in Paris.
They didn’t take anything else. The gardener didn’t steal the clock. Mr Salt didn’t call the police. DIDN’T + INFINITIVE

5. Interrogative form (questions)
Verb TO BE
Other verbs
Were you here yesterday?
Was your wife with you?
Where was the clock?
(QUESTION WORD) WAS/WERE + SUBJECT
Did they steal anything else?
Did Helen go to a concert?
Where did you go last week?
Why did you call the police?
(QUESTION WORD) + DID+ SUBJECT + INFINITVE

6. Past Simple is used
for actions which started in the past and finished in the past and we know when it happened
b) with these time expressions: yesterday, last _____, in 2009, when I was little, a week ago