simple past

Multiple Choice

"How did you learn to drive?"

"My father ___ me."

• teach

• teaches

• taught

Reorder

Reorder the following

• How long

• did

• it

• to get there?

• take you

1

2

3

4

5

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Match

Match the following

• Write

• Get

• Have

• Walk

• Take

Wrote

Got

Had

Walked

Took

• Wrote

• Got

• Had

• Walked

• Took

Match

Match the following

• Was/were

• Was

• Were

Past simple form of "be"

I, he, she and it

you, we and they

• Past simple form of "be"

• I, he, she and it

• you, we and they

Reorder

Reorder the following

• My

• parents

• were

• on

• a trip

1

2

3

4

5

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

CAN

• Can is called a Modal Verb.

• It doesn't have all the tenses that verbs usually have.

• It has the simple past tense could.

Could/ Couldn't

Past Modal Verb

We use 'could' and 'couldn't' to talk about our abilities in the past.

• For example:

• I could swim when I was four years old.

• I couldn't ride a bike when I was three.

• He could walk when he was two.

• She couldn't write when she was one.

Questions

• Could she sing?

• Couldn't she phone instead of emailing me?

The negative forms of can and could are cannot (can't) and could not (couldn't)

• Note that cannot is one word and could not consists of two separate words.

Open Ended

Describe yourself as a child in 3 sentences.

Example. I was short, I was noisy....

Multiple Select

Peter _______ do his homework yesterday because he was sick

• could

• can

• couldn't

• cannot

Open Ended

Tell your classmates something interesting that happened last week

Open Ended

What happened next?