Past simple tense

1. UNIKIDS
Miss Jennifer Manzano
START!

3. PAST SIMPLE
Talk about past
actions
A verb
tense

4. PAST SIMPLE
• cook: cooked
• give: gave
• wash: washed
• drink: drank
• eat: ate
• walk: walked
• plant: planted
• run: ran
Regular Verbs Irregular Verbs
• Cooked
• Washed
• Walked
• planted
• gave
• Drank
• Ate
• ran
Present - Past
-ed not -ed

5. If base form ends in more than one consonant or
ends in vowel + y : add -ed
If base form ends in e: add -d
Watch: watched
Play: PLayed
Wash: washed
Die: died
Live: lived
Increase: increased
REGULAR VERBS

6. If there is a consonant + vowel + consonant:
double final consonant and add + -ed
If base form ends in –y : change “y” to “i” and add -ed
Stop: stopped
Drop: dropped
Sip: sipped
Try: tried
Cry: cried
Marry: married

7. IRREGULAR VERBS
• Find- found
• Swim- Swam
• Buy- bought
• Come- came
• Get- got
• Have- had
• Drink- drank
• Understand: Understood
• Run- ran
• Meet: met
• Break- broke
• Drive- drove
• Sleep- slept
• Tell- told
• Begin- began
• Ride-rode
• Have- had
• Go-went
• Lose-lost
• Make-made
• Give- gave
• Read- read
• Sing- sang
• Eat- ate
• Hang- hung
• See- saw
• Become- became
• Write- wrote
• Bring- brought

8. Subject + verb in past tense + complement
Marco sang a beautiful
song yesterday
Diana girl
played
soccer in the
field
Jhosue wrote a
poem about his
vactions

9. Negative statements with past simple tense
Subject + auxiliary verb did + not + base form+ complement
• My mother didn’t/ did not work yesterday.
• I drank a juice with my friends.
• She studied for the quiz.
I dind’t drink a juice with my frinds
She didn’t study for the quiz

10. Questions with past simple tense
• Did she eat fruits this morning? • Where did you go yesterday?
What? Where? When? Who ?Did + subject + base
form+ complement+ ?
Wh question+ did + subject + base
form+ complement+ ?
Yes, I did. / No, I didn’t.
I went to Esmeraldas to enjoy the beaches.
• She ate fruits this morning.

11. 1. Read the following passage, pay attention to every single detail and answer the questions.