Past Simple and Past Cotinuous

Past Simple and Past Continuous

Grammar Section 1 for exam.
Have your notebook ready to take notes

FIRST: Let's start with a practice where you identify verbs in past

Multiple Choice

Choose the past tense of the verb illustrated

• trovel

• traveling

• traveled

• troveled

Multiple Choice

Choose the past tense of the verb illustrated

• went

• goed

• wented

• gone

Multiple Choice

Choose the past tense of the verb illustrated

"fight"

• fighted

• fought

• fited

• foughted

Multiple Choice

Choose the past tense of the verb illustrated

"laugh"

• laughed

• laughting

• laughted

• laughter

Multiple Choice

Choose the past tense of the verb illustrated

"forget"

• forgot

• forgeted

• forgoting

• forgotten

Multiple Choice

Choose the past tense of the verb illustrated

"know"

• knew

• knowed

• will know

• knowing

Multiple Choice

Speak

• Spoke

• Speaked

• spoken

• spuken

Multiple Choice

The baby ______ because he was hungry.

• cried

• cryed

• cry

• crought

Multiple Choice

Josh _______ the heavy boxes to the attic last night.

• carry

• caryed

• carried

• carrying

Multiple Choice

The car _______ in the middle of the street a few minutes ago.

• stop

• stopping

• stoped

• stopped

WELL DONE!
Now, we start the lesson.



PLEASE, TAKE NOTES IN YOUR NOTEBOOK

PAST SIMPLE

Completed events in the past AND the main event in a story.


Person + Verb in past
NEGATIVE= did not / didn´t + verb in present

- My mom ate a sandwich. My mom didn´t eat a sandwich.
- My friends danced at the party. My friends didn´t dance at the party.
- I forgot my book at home. I didn´t forget my book at home.

IMPORTANT!!!

1) Regular verbs finished with -ed in past:
walk-walked jump-jumped study-studied


2) Irregular verbs change in past:
eat-ate go-went drink-drank buy-bought

Let's Practice Past Simple

Multiple Choice

Last week I _________ some new shoes.

• spent

• went

• became

• bought

Multiple Choice

I _______ to the mall last Saturday.

• went

• won

• found

• thought

Multiple Choice

I _______ a very good book last night.

• told

• read

• became

• spent

Multiple Choice

I ______ my old car to a friend for $1,000.

• told

• found

• gave

• sold

Multiple Choice

I'm happy because my team ________ the match.

• told

• spent

• won

• bought

Multiple Choice

My mother ______ me $100 for my birthday this morning.

• gave

• told

• bought

• won

Multiple Choice

My sister_____ her best smart phone, yesterday night.

• did break

• broke

• broken

• breaked

Multiple Choice

The negative of:

The cat ate pizza.

• didn't eat

• didn't ate

Multiple Choice

The negative of:

John drank water.

• didn't drink

• didn't drank

Multiple Choice

Our parents _______ to Egypt last vacations.

• didn't go

• doesn't go

• didn't went

Multiple Choice

The Ancient Greek gods ________________ in Heaven.

• didn´t lived

• didn´t live

• didn´t lives

PAST CONTINUOUS

Events that were in progress at a specific moment before anoter event in the past.

Person + was/were + verb (-ing)



- My mom was eating a sandwich when I arrived to the house.
- I broke my leg when I was playing soccer.
-My brother arrived to my house while I was cooking.

WAS = I, he, she, it
WERE= You, we, they

Let's Practice Past Continuous

Multiple Choice

You _____________ last night.

• wasn't studying

• wasn't study

• weren't studying

• weren't study

Multiple Choice

______ it ________ last week?

• Was / snowing

• Were / snowing

• Was / snow

• Were / snow

Multiple Choice

Yesterday at six my mom _____________ dinner.

• were preparing

• were prepare

• was preparing

• was prepare

Multiple Choice

Most of the time my friends and I __________ in the park.

• was sit

• were sitting

• were sit

• was sitting

Fill in the Blanks

I

(sing) a rock song.

Fill in the Blanks

Julie

(sleep) at three o'clock.

Fill in the Blanks

My parents

(work) all afternoon.

Multiple Choice

I was listening to the radio when you ________(call) me.

• called

• callt

• were calling

• was calling

Multiple Choice

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

• was snowed

• was snowing

• were snowing

• snowed

Multiple Choice

When I ________ (open) the door, it _________ (rain).

• was opening / rained

• opened / was raining

• opened / were raining

Multiple Choice

He _________ (talk) to his friend when he ________ (hear) a loud noise

• was talking / heard

• was talking / heared

• talked / was hearing

THIS IS ALL FOR TODAY!