2. The aim of this unit is to express past actions
and expressions.
3. Match these time expressions with the correct picture:
In spring
In winter
At Christmas
Last holidays
Last month
Last summer
Yesterday
When I was a child
1-
2-
3-
4-
5-
6-
7-
8-
2nd February, today is the
3rd February.Tomorrow
will be the 4th February
4. Choose from the pictures what actions did you do yesterday:
What did you do yesterday?
Do your homework
Play computer games
Meet a friend
Talk to the teacher
Watch TV
Go for a walk
5. What did you do yesterday?
Make sentences in the past tense: Remember!!! there are regular and irregular pasts.
Regular: listen + ed= listened Irregular: write wrote
I did my homeworkI played computer games
I met my friends
I talked to the teacher
I watched TV
I went for a walk
Make new sentences for other actions
use he/ she / it:
Go to school
Drive a carHave a shower
6. Write the past tense of the following verbs, be careful with the
spelling of regular verbs: + ed
Verbs ending in a:
C+V+C C+Y VOWEL +Y SILENT E REST OF FORMS
Stop study play close walk
Stopped studied played closed walked
________ ______ ______ ______ _____
Now try yourself:
Phone destroy carry visit miss fix show move open try
7. How do we make negative sentences in the past tense?
We use didn’t (did not) + verb base=
I didn’t go for a walk because I was in bed.
They studied a lot and
they didn’t cheat in their exams.
Chew gum in class
Use your mobile phone in classGo skiing in the summer
8. Making questions (?)in the PastTense:
I played football yesterday.
She went to the cinema last weekend.
Auxiliary V + Subject + Verb + (Complements)
Did you play football yesterday ?
Did she go to the cinema last weekend?
Yes, you did.
No, she didn`t.