This document discusses the past simple tense in English. It explains that the past simple form is the same for all persons and provides examples. It also outlines the uses of the past simple, including for finished past actions and actions that follow in sequence in a story. Finally, it lists some common time expressions used with the past simple and provides an exercise to make sentences using sample verbs in the past simple form.

1. Past Simple
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2. Form
• the form is the same for all
persons
–He left at three o’clock.
–They arrived three weeks ago.
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3. Use
• a finished action in the past
–We met in 2007.
• action that follow each other in a
story
–Mary walked into the room and
stopped.
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4. Time expressions:
• Three months ago
• Last night
• Two days ago
• Yesterday
• Last Friday
• In 1987
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5. Exercise
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6. Make sentences using
these verbs:
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8. Write

9. FlyFly

10. SingSing

11. Draw

12. Eat

13. RunRun

14. HaveHave

15. ReadRead

16. SwimSwim

17. Sleep