PAST TENSE

Past Simple

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Affirmative form:

Past Simple - Affirmative form

​Regular verbs (add	​Irregular verbs (use the
​I played	​I ate
You played​	​You ate
​He/she/it played	He/she/it ate​
​We played	We ate​
You played​	You ate​
They played​	They ate​

​DẤU HIỆU NHẬN BIẾT

• Yesterday – hôm qua.

• (two days, three weeks…) ago. – hai ngày/ba tuần/… trước.

• Last (year/month/week). – năm/tháng/tuần trước.

• in (2002 – năm cũ/ June – tháng cũ).

• in the last century. – Thế kỷ trước.

• in the past. – trong quá khứ.

Past Simple: Affirmative

• All regular verbs end with -ed.

• For irregular verbs, see the list (2nd column).

• Notice all pronouns use the same rule with the verb (regular or irregular).

Multiple Choice

I _________ to France by plane.

• studied

• travelled

• ate

Multiple Choice

I ___________ to the beach last summer.

• go

• goed

• went

Multiple Choice

Which word do we use in the negative form of the past simple for regular and irregular verbs?

• isn't

• didn't

• aren't

Celebrations

• I visited my grandparents in summer.

• I collected chocolate eggs on Easter day.

• I celebrated New Year's Eve with my family.

• I had a birthday party at home.

Multiple Choice

Kevin ______ pizza in his holidays.

• eat

• ate

• eated

Multiple Choice

The dog _________ in the pool.

• didn't swam

• didn't swim

Multiple Choice

The baby __________ (cry) all day.

• cryed

• cryyed

• crieed

• cried

Multiple Choice

The family _______________ (bake) a birthday cake.

• bake

• baked

• bakeed

• bakked

Multiple Choice

I _______________ to music while I was studying English.

• listened

• wanted

• laughed

• jumped

Multiple Choice

She_______ in a bank for 2 years

• work

• sleep

• worked

• played

Multiple Choice

how do you spell this words?

play, stop,study

• played, stopped, studed

• plaied, stopped,studied

• played, stopped, studied

Fill in the Blanks

We

soup, pasta and salad for dinner last night. (have)

Multiple Choice

PAST SIMPLE OF BREAK

• BROKEN

• BROKE

• BROK

• BREAK

Multiple Choice

People ___________ (go) to the cinema.

• went

• goed

• didn't go

• didn't went

​We use the past continuous to talk about the past:

​Something that happened before and after another action:

The children were doing their homework when I got home.

​The past continuous is made from the past tense of the verb be and the –ing form of a verb:

Present Continuos Past continuous​

I am walking I was walking

​ He is writing. He was writing.

They are dancing. They were dancing.

It is formed with was/ were + the –ing form of the verb.

Multiple Choice

What ___ at eight o'clock last night?

• were you doing 

• you were doing 

Multiple Choice

The police stopped Willis as ___ to the airport.

• he is driving

• he was driving

Multiple Choice

We use past continuos for:

• For an action that happened in a concrete moment of the past

• For an action that was happening during a time in the past

• For an action that will happen in the past

• non of the these ones.

Multiple Choice

I couldn’t answer your call because I __________(drive)

• were driving

• drived

• drove

• was driving

Multiple Choice

Hello Anna, what _______ (you / do) when I called you last night?

• do you do

• did you do

• didn't do

• were you doing

Multiple Choice

When he opened the window, it __________ (snow).

• was snowed

• was snowing

• were snowing

• snowed

Multiple Choice

You ....... visiting your friends

• was

• were

• are

• is

Multiple Choice

I t was raining ______ I got up this Morning.

• WHEN

• WHILE

Multiple Choice

They ____ (not/do) their homework yesterday at 3 o'clock

• was not doing

• were not doing

• was not do

Multiple Choice

Ann ................. cleaning her room when her mother called her

• weren`t

• doesn`t

• didn`t

• wasn`t

Multiple Choice

They ............... watching a film yesterday afternoon

• weren`t

• wasn`t

• don`t

• isn`t

Multiple Choice

........ she reading a magazine when Peter arrived?

• were

• was

• do

• did

Multiple Choice

You ....... visiting your friends

• was

• were

• are

• is