Past tense

Past tense

By: Mdm Jay

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What do you understand by the phrase past tense?

​Simple Past Tense

The simple past tense is used to describe a completed activity that happened in the past. In other words, it started in the past and ended in the past.

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​What makes the difference in past tense sentence?

​Simple present:

​I drive my car to work everyday.

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​Simple past tense:

​I drove my car to the airport last night.

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The differences that I can see are......

• action words

• subject

• place

• time frame

​Action word (verb)

​Action words are changing once we use it for past situation.

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​Most of the time, the action words changed by adding -ed at the end of the word.

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​Let's try

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Add -ed to skip.

• skiped

• skipt

• skipped

• skippt

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Add -ed to hop.

• hopt

• hoped

• hoppt

• hopped

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Add -ed to rub.

• rubbed

• rubd

• rubbd

• rubed

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Add -ed to wave.

• wavved

• wavd

• waveed

• waved

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Add -ed to jump.

• jumped

• jumpt

• jumppt

• jumpped

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Add -ed to save.

• savd

• saved

• savved

• savvd

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Add -ed to cry.

• cried

• cryed

• cred

• cryied

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What is the past tense of carry?

• carryed

• caried

• carried

• carries

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What is the past tense of study?

• studied

• studdyed

• studyed

• studded

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Yesterday I ________ (bake) a cake.

• bakked

• baked

• baking

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Last week I ________ (kick) a ball.

• kicking

• kicks

• kicked

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My friend _________ (jump) over the wall.

• jumped

• jumps

• jumping

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Last night it ________ (rain).

• rains

• rained

• raining

​Action word (verb)

​Action words are changing once we use it for past situation.

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​Sometimes the action words totally change from the root words.

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​Let's try

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She ........... to the cinema last week.

• went

• go

• goed

• wend

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Past tense of "eat"

• ate

• eatted

• eated

• eaten

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Past tense of "sleep"

• sleeped

• slept

• sleptted

• sleepped

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Past tense of "think"

• thought

• thinked

• thoughted

• thinkked

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The past tense of "fall"

• fell

• falled

• foll

• fall

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The past tense of "sing"

• sung

• singed

• sang

• seng

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Past tense of "swim"

• swam

• swimmed

• swom

• swum

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Past tense of "say"

• said

• sayed

• sad

• sidded

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Past tense of "shake"

• shook

• shaken

• shaked

• shakked

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Past tense of "make"

• made

• mode

• mude

• meid

​Identify if you should use

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​Simple Present Tense

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​Simple Past Tense

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I wake up at 5.30 in the morning.

• Present simple

• Past simple

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I swam in the pool with my friends yesterday.

• Present simple

• Past simple

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I study at Corinda State High School.

• Present simple

• Past simple

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I saw Susan at The Mall Bangkapi yesterday.

• Present simple

• Past simple

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We do English homework every day.

• Present simple

• Past simple

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John found it difficult to live happily in the crowded city.

• Present simple

• Past simple

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What movies did you see lately?

• Present simple

• Past simple

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Uncle Tom caught a lot of catfish last week.

• Present simple

• Past simple

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Helen plays computer games every day.

• Present simple

• Past simple

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Sammy went to Pattaya beach last holiday.

• Present simple

• Past simple

​Identify if you should use

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​Simple Present Tense

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​Simple Past Tense

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She ________ to Australia in 1994 and she liked it very much.

• go

• goes

• went

• gone

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My father usually __________ his steak well-done.

• likes

• liked

• liking

• like

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The dog __________ its toy last night

• eats

• eat

• ate

• eaten

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The policeman ____________ to the burglar yesterday.

• talking

• talk

• talkes

• talked

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I often see her mother but she never ________ to me.

• speaking

• spoke

• speaks

• speak

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The gentleman __________ to his servant 2 hours ago

• speaking

• spoken

• speak

• spoke

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The kangaroo always _______ its baby.

• carry

• carries

• carrys

• carried

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My friend ________ a lot every day.

• talks

• talk

• talked

• talking

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My sisters ________ for England every year in June.

• leaving

• leaved

• leaves

• leave

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I _____________________ television late last night. I went to bed early because I was so tired.

• watched

• watch

• didn't watch

• don't watch

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I ________________________ to school this morning because my car was broken down.

• walks

• walked

• didn't walk

• don't walk

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George ____________________ French last week because he had a French exam.

• didn't study

• studied

• studies

• doesn't study

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Mary always ____________________ at eight o'clock but she woke up at nine yesterday.

• gets up

• get up

• doesn't get up

• don't get up

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My sister usually ___________________ me with my homework. I don't know how I would live without her.

• helps

• helped

• help

• doesn't help

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My mother sometimes _________________ spaghetti. It is my favourite food.

• cook

• doesn't cook

• cooks

• cooked

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Liz usually _____________ to make a strawberry milkshake but last week she wanted to make a banana milkshake.

• wants

• wanted

• doesn't want

• didn't want

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I often ______________ football but yesterday I played basketball with my friends.

• plays

• played

• play

• plaies

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My friend often ________nice posters.

• drawn

• draw

• draws

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My parents ______ a lot of junk food when they ______ young.

• eat/were

• ate/were

• ate/are

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Construct a simple past sentence based on the picture

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Construct a simple past sentence based on the picture

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Construct a simple past sentence based on the picture

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Construct a simple past sentence based on the picture

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Construct a simple past sentence based on the picture

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Construct a simple past sentence based on the picture