Past Simple Tense

Verbs

2 Murni - 24th June 2021

Definition

A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as here, become, happen.

Open Ended

What are the verbs you could think of ?

Multiple Choice

What should we do to change the verbs that happened in the past?

• Present Tense

• Past Tense

• Furture Tense

How do you identify past tense in a sentence?

• It always has a timeline expression

• Yesterday

• Last night

• A year ago

• Last week

• Last year

• An hour ago and etc..

Past Simple Tense

• A tense expressing an action that has happened or a state that previously existed.

• Regular and Irregular verbs

Past Simple Tense (REGULAR VERBS)

• +ed to the end of the root form of the verb

• +d to the root form of the verb when the word ends with an "e"

• +ied when the root form of the verb ends with a "y"

Past Simple Tense (IRREGULAR VERBS)

• Unlike regular verbs, irregular verbs do not need to +ed/+d/+ied

• Mostly, you have to CHANGE the spelling from the base word

• Some of the irregular verbs however, DO NOT change their spelling at all to form the past tense

Irregular Verbs (For example)

• Begin - Began (Changed)

• Drive - Drove (Changed)

• Cut - Cut (Unchanged)

• Read - Read (Unchanged)

Can you change the following verbs to past simple tense ?

• Agree =

• Are =

• Borrow =

• Buy =

• Come =

• Cook =

• Sleep =

True or false

• 1. Gary stand up before he spoke.

• (F)

• 2. The baby crawled under the chair just now.

  
  

• (T)

• 3. The choir sings a lovely song last night.

• (F)

• 4. Grandpa went for a walk after dinner.

To do list:

1. Link will be given to do a live quiz on Google Form

2. Fill in the blanks with the correct past tense verbs

3. Make sentences of the past simple tense