The simple past

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The simple past
The simple past
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• In the english language we can find to types of
  verbs
• Regular
• Irregular
• Look at the list of past tense verb
• Which verbs are regular and
• which verbs are irregular?

• Worked
• Lived
• Enjoyed
• Taught
• Loved
• Wrote
• Became
• Cried
• Did
• Studied

regular
regular
regular
irregular
regular
irregular
irregular
regular
irregular
regular
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• What is a REGULAR verb?
• End with ed
• Simple form past
  form
• Watch
  watched
• Wash
  washed
• Love
  loved

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• There some exeptions
• Regular verbs ending with Y. Change the Y into a
  i and add the ED
• Cry cried
• Toms brother cried all night long
• Regular verbs ending with E just add D
• Love loved
• She loved this movie when she was with her
  boyfriend
• Exeptions
• Enjoy enjoyed
• I enjoyed your company last week

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• What is an irregular verb?
• Those verbs that dont end with ED
• In some cases can change just one letter
• Like in
• Simple form simple
  past
• Become
  became
• Drive
  drove
• Give
  gave
• Forget
  forgot

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Other irregular verbs change its form completely
as in

• Simple form simple past
• Buy bought
• Teach taught
• Sell sold
• Take took
• Jessica ________ (buy) a nice house in the
• Beach
• He ________(take) his car and ______(drive) to
• his girlfriends house

bought
took
drove
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• There are some verbs that dont change at all
• Simple form simple past
• Cut cut
• Set set
• Put put
• Hit hit
• She hit his brother in the face
• Yesterday I cut my hair. How I miss it

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Lets see some exercises

• Tina_____ (buy) a new car
• She ____ (lose) her keys
• He ____ (win) the football cup of his school
• Jonny____ (be) an amazing person
• We_____ (love) eat pop corn at the cinema
• We ____ (go) to the park last Sunday
• They_____ (watch) a TV show

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Negative from

• To form negative sentences with the regular
• and irregular verbs you have to use DID
• NOT or DIDNT and the verb stay in the infinitive
• form
• Example
• I played voleyball yesterday
• I didnt play voleyball yesterday.

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• Exercice
• Change these positive sentences into negatives
• I loved her ______________________________________
  _____________
• You took my car __________________________________
  ____________
• We went to the post office _______________________
  ________________
• She had a pen ____________________________________
  ______________
• I watched TV last night __________________________
  ________________
• I closed my bank account__________________________
  _____________
• I had a shower ___________________________________
  ______________
• He red harry Potter three times last
  year___________________________

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How can we make questions with short answers in
simple past?

• In order to create questions follow this
• formula
• DID pronoun or subject verb (infinitive)complem
  ent?
• Did you
  sell your car ?
• Answer
• Yes, I did / No, I didnt
• Did she lose her keys? (v)
• Did we drive to your house last night? (X)

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• Wh- questions
• In order to use Wh-questions you can folllow
• this formula
• Wh Q did pronoun verb inf. complement
• Where did you sleep last
  night?
• Answer
• pRonoun verb (past) complement
• I slept in my
  uncles house

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exercises

• Order the following sentences.
• She/ leave/ where/the car/ did? she leaft the car
  inside my garden
• why/ move/ he/did/ here? because she fought with
  her mom
• What did you do last night? a party/ I/ went /to
• Did you watch TV last night? did/ I/ yes.
• What did she buy? bought/ she/ some new clothes
• you/ sleep/ well/ did? Yes, I did thank you