Simple Past Tense

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Simple Past Tense

• -Form
• -Meaning and Use
• -Pronunciation

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How do we form the simple past tense?

• English has two types of verbs in the past
• -regular
• -irregular

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Lets 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

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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?
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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).

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Irregular verbs are verbs that dont 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

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Other irregular verbs have a different kind of
change..you need to memorize these!

• teach
• bring
• leave
• hear
• buy

taught brought left heard bought
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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
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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!
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How can you practice past tense verbs?

• Phonemically (word sorts)
• Bingo!
• Modeling
• Survey says
• Nancy Fetzer
• Direct instruction muiltiple opportunities to
  practice Skill mastery!!!!!