This document discusses the use of the simple past tense in English to talk about actions that occurred at a specific time in the past. It provides examples of regular verbs in their base form next to their past tense forms ending in "-ed". It then describes how ancient Egyptians and Aztecs celebrated festivals in the past with feasts, including the types of foods they cooked and served. It provides examples of statements using simple past verbs that are either true or false about the ancient cultures.

1. PAST
SIMPLE
REGULAR
VERBS

2. AFFIRMATIV
E
 Utilizamos el Past Simple para
hablar de acciones que
sucedieron en un momento
concreto del pasado.
 La forma del verbo es la misma
para todas las personas del
singular y del plural.
 Verbo en infinitivo + -ed.

3. Watch - Watched
Cook - Cooked
Work - Worked
Listen - Listened
Dance - Danced Carry - Carried
Serve - Served Hurry - Hurried Travel - Travelled
Live - Lived Try - Tried

4. FANTASTIC
FEASTS
Every year we celebrate
festivals, for example,
Christmas and
Halloween. Normally,
we have special food.
In the UK, people eat
turkey at Christmas.

5. In the past,
people
celebrated
festivals, too.
And they cooked
special food.

6. The Ancient Egyptians lived
3,500 years ago in Egypt.
They celebrated their
festivals with enormous
feasts. They cooked fish,
beef and chicken. They
served fruit, too. The
servants carried jars of
wine on their heads.
People played music and
danced.

7. The Aztecs lived 500 years
ago in Mexico. They
celebrated their festivals
with feasts, too. They
served a chocolate drink.
And they served very
interesting food! They
cooked a special type of
pancake. These pancakes
contained snails, insect
eggs and worms!

8. In the UK, people eat
turkey at Christmas.
TRUE

9. The Ancient Egyptians
lived in Mexico.
FALSE

10. The Ancient Egyptians
cooked beef.
TRUE

11. At Egyptians festivals,
people danced.
TRUE

12. The Aztecs lived in
Egypt.
FALSE

13. The Aztecs served very
interesting food.
TRUE

14. help helped

15. invite invited

16. listen listened

17. phone phoned

18. play played

19. study studied

20. try tried

21. visit visited

22. wash washed

23. watch watched

24. work worked

25. live lived

26. carry carried

27. serve served

28. hurry hurried

29. work worked

30. dance danced

31. cook cooked

32. travel travelled

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