Past simple. Form and Use

1. PAST SIMPLE
•It is used to talk about events in the past
•It is often used to tell stories

2. EXAMPLE:
Peter arrived at Manchester
Airport and checked in.
He waited for the plane.
When he landed in Milan, he
traveled by bus to the hotel…

3. FORM:
 For regular verbs we add –ed to the
infinitive form of the verb.
Example: landed walked
watched waited

4. REGULAR VERBS: SPELLING
 Verbs ending in –e, just add –d.
race – raced trade - traded
 Verbs eding in consonant + y, change y to
i and add –ed
bury – buried try – tried
 Verbs ending with a single vowel +
consonant, double the final consonant and
add –ed when the stress is on final vowel.
plane – planned prefer - preferred

5. LET’S PRACTICE:
Live
Raise
Look
Study
Play
Try
End
Sail
Escape
Walk
Laugh
Marry
Enter

6. IRREGULAR VERBS
 For irregular verbs, there are no rules.
 Each irregular verb has its own past simple,
and they have to be learned by heart
see – saw go – went
buy – bought meet – met
read – read do – did

7. INTERROGATIVE AND NEGATIVE FORMS
 We form the interrogative and negative forms
of the past simple using the auxiliary do in
the past: did and the infinitive without “to”.
She went outside
Did she go outside?
She didn’t go outside.