The document provides information about using the past simple tense in English. It discusses: - The Spanish equivalents of the past simple tense as pretérito imperfecto, pretérito perfecto simple, and pretérito. - The forms of to be in the past simple affirmative, negative, and interrogative. - The use of there was/were to talk about things in the past. - Common time expressions used with the past tense like yesterday, last week, ago. - How to form the past tense of regular verbs by adding -ed and irregular verb forms. - The pronunciation of -ed as /t/, /d/, or /id/.