3. • Asking about events in the past
Did you enjoy the fireworks?
• Talking about events in the past
• Affirmative
We talked for hours
• Negative
you didn´t phone
past simple: yes/no questions look at the
examples in the boxes
• questions:
Did she come from a rich family?
Did she win the competition?
• Short answer
No, she didn´t
Yes, she did
• Wh-questions: what, when, where
What did you talk about?
When did she arrive?
Where did they walk to?
Regulars verbs
Present past
Arrive arrived
dance danced
Talk talked
Stay stayed
Phone phoned
Happen happened
Worry worried
Watch watched
Enjoy enjoyed
Irregulars verbs
Present past
See saw
Go went
Buy bought
Lear learnt
Get got
Make made
4. Simple past: irregular verbs I ate a ham burger in new york and drank some orange juice. (to
eat- to drink)
I began school when I was 5 years old. (to buy- to go)
We did our homework at the weekend. (to do)
She fell in a puddle. (to fall)
She for got her money. (to find)
My brother Garamendi's football ticket. (to give)
I got up late because I didn´t go to school. (to get up)
We ha a big meal in London. (to have)
He lost his English book. (to lose)
They made break fast. (to make)
I put the ticket in my pocket. (to put)
She ran along the streets. (to run)
“this is a very interesting” said the policeman. ( to say)
I went the London on holiday. (to go)
Last Saturday I woke up early. (to wake up)
I won the lottery prize. (to win)
They wrote a letter. (to write)
Grammar summary
5. Object pronouns
Personal Pronouns object pronouns
I me
you you
he him
she her
it it
we us
they them
Examples:
My mum take me to school.
Does your mum take you?
She loves him and he love her.
We like them but they don´t like us.
6. Irregular verbs
Present past
Bring brought
Catch caught
Find found
Take took
Leave left
Give gave
Can came
Make made
Fall fell
Say said
Run run
Wake up woke up
7. Read
Penny: hi, tom. What´s the matter?
Tom: hi, penny. I hurt my leg.
Penny: I´m sorry! How did you do that?
Tom: in a foot ball game two days ago. The field was wet and I sipped.
Penny: does it hurt.
Tom: yesterday it was awful and I couldn´t sleep last night. It´s much better now but I need my
walking stick.
Penny: where did you get that?
Tom: my brother made it in his wood work class for my dad. He broke his leg last year.
Penny: how did that?
Tom: my brother made it in his wood work class for my dad. He broke his leg last year.
Penny: how did that happen?
Tom: he fell out of bed.
read the dialog again. find the answers to these questions:
What´s the matter?
How did you do that?
Where did you do that?
How did that happen?
8. Irregular verbs
Present past
Break broke
Fall fell
Hurt hurt
Wake woke
Buy bought
Build built
Choose chose
Cut cut
Do did
Drink drank
Drive drove
Eat ate
Fell felt
Get got
Go went
Grow grew
Have had
Keep kept
Know knew
Learn learnt
Lose lost
Meet net
Pay paid
Ring rang
Sing sang
Sleep slept
Speak spoke
Spend spent
Teach taught
Throw threw
9. Grammar summary
There forms
• Interrogative:
Did butch rob banks?
Yes, he did
• Negative: the Bolivian army didn´t kill butch Cassidy
because he escaped to the us.
