1. -Form -Meaning and Use -Pronunciation
Simple Past Tense
-Form
-Meaning and Use
-Pronunciation

2. How do we form the simple past tense?
English has two types of verbs in the past:
-regular
-irregular

3. Let’s read the following list of past tense verbs…
Let’s read the following list of past tense verbs….. Which are regular and which are irregular?
walked regular
studied regular
taught irregular
gave irregular
became irregular
cried regular
lived regular
did irregular

4. Regular verbs are verbs that end with -ed
Simple form verbs:
walk
study
cry
live
Past tense verbs:
walked
studied
cried
lived
Do you know the rule for choosing -ed or ied?

5. Rules for adding –ed: Add –ed to most verbs
Drop the “e” and add “ed” to verbs that end with “e” (smile= smiled).
Change the “y” to “i” and add –ed to verbs that end with a consonant and “y” (carry= carried, study= studied).
Double the consonant and add –ed to verbs that end with one vowel and one consonant ( drag= dragged, stop= stopped).

6. Irregular verbs are verbs that don’t end in –ed……..
Sometimes with irregular past tense verbs you have to change the vowel to make the verb past tense:
become became
give gave
drive drove
forget forgot

7. Other irregular verbs have a different kind of change…
Other irregular verbs have a different kind of change…..you need to memorize these!
teach
bring
leave
hear
buy
taught
brought
left
heard
bought

8. Why do we use past tense verbs?
TO TELL THAT AN ACTION IS COMPLETED!!!!!! FINISHED!!! OVER!!!
YESTERDAY
LONG AGO
LAST WEEK
ONCE UPON A TIME...
RECENTLY

9. PRONOUNCIATION OF REGULAR VERBS……
The –ed ending in English has three different sounds:
t: walked, talked, jumped
d: played, loved, answered
id: invited, waited decided....
*With –id sounding words, there is another syllable!

10. How can you practice past tense verbs?
Phonemically (word sorts)
Bingo!
Modeling
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