Simple Past

Simple Past Tense

Affirmative and Negative Forms

Simple Past Tense

Remember that the Simple Past Tense is used to talk about things that happened or existed before now.

Examples:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a musician. He lived in Viena.

William Shakespeare was a writer. He lived in England.

Multiple Choice

Choose the sentence that describes an action done in the past.

• Mrs. Sheridan lived in America three years ago.

• We live in Mexico.

• Martha and her sister study French.

Regular verbs

The regular verbs are the verbs that follow a pattern and create the past simple using the same word ending -ed.

Examples:

play - - played

finish - - finished

phone - - phoned

walk - - walked

Multiple Select

Choose the sentence that has a regular verb.

• I work hard every day.

• Please finish your homework.

• John plays football every weekend.

• He enjoyed playing in his school.

Multiple Choice

Choose the sentence that has the correct Negative form:

We lived in Mexico City many years ago.

• We did not lived in Mexico City many years ago.

• We did not live in Mexico City many years ago.

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct verb to complete this sentence:

We _________ to make sentences using verbs in past tense.

• learned

• learning

• learns

Simple Past Negative Form

We make the negative form of Simple Past Tense using the helping verb did + not and the verb in infinitive form.

Examples:

Affirmative

My friends and I studied hard this school year.

Negative

My friends and I did not study hard this school year.

Multiple Choice

Complete the following sentence with the correct verb in negative form:

My parents ______ ________ work in N.Y. last summer.

• didn´t worked

• did not work

• did´nt worked

Irregular Verbs

The irregular verbs are the verbs that do not follow the usual rules for making the past form of the verb. They change their form.

Examples:

be - - was / were

come - - came

get - - got

know - - knew

make - - made

Multiple Choice

Choose the sentence that has an irregular verb.

• Second graders worked happily.

• Second graders are the best students.

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