The document provides information about using the past simple tense in English to describe actions that were completed in the past. It defines the past simple tense and gives examples of its use, including: 1) Using the past simple to talk about actions that started and finished at a specific time in the past, like "She watched a movie yesterday". 2) Using it to describe a sequence of past actions with connectors like "then" and "next", like "We played the game and then we went home". 3) Using it to describe past habits, like "You spoke French when you were a child". It then gives tables of regular and irregular verb forms in the past simple tense and examples of

2. She a movie yesterday
Use the Past Simple to express the idea
that an action started and finished at a
specific time in the past.

3. We the game and then we home.
He school, to the beach, and a nice place to swim.
Actions which happened immediately one after the
other in the past. (Sometimes you use connectors of
sequence: next, then, first, second, etc to show the
order of events).

4. The Simple Past can also be used to describe
a habit which stopped in the past.
You French when you a child

5. Past Simple time
expressions
yesterday
the day before yesterday
the night before last
the week before last
the month before last
when I was a child
in 1999
on December 19th
3 days
5 minutes ago
one year
month
last year
summer
etc

6. If you want to use the past tense, there are
two types of verbs:
PRESENT PAST
call called
walk + ed walked
check checked
PRESENT PAST
study studied
cry + ied cried
carry carried
When final “Y” is preceded by a
consonant, you drop: “Y” and
add ied.
PRESENT PAST
plan planned
permit permitted
control controlled
When the ending is: consonant + vowel
+ consonant and the stress is in the last
syllable, you repeat the last consonant.
PRESENT PAST
dance danced
share + d shared
like liked

7. PRESENT PAST
Go
say
make
come
see
give
put
hit
think
teach
leave
feel
fall
Went
said
made
came
saw
gave
put
hit
thought
taught
left
felt
fell

8. Past Simple structure
Subject
She visited / left the zoo
Verb in past Rest of the sentence
I
you
we
they
he
she
it
saw
visited
cleaned
left
the zoo
POSITIVE

9. Past Simple structure
Subject
She didn’t visit / didn’t leave the zoo
didn’t + V. base form
(didn’t = did + not) Rest of the sentence
I
you
we
they
he
she
it
didn’t see
didn’t visit
didn’t clean
didn’t leave
the zoo
NEGATIVE

10. Past Simple structure
Did
Did she visit / leave the zoo?
Subject Rest of the
sentence
Did
You
they
we
she
he
I
it
the
zoo?
INTERROGATIVE AND SHORT ANSWERS
Verb
see
visit
clean
leave
Yes,
I
you
we
they
she
he
it
did
.
No, didn’t

11. They to the museum last week
They to the museum
last week
they to the museum last week?
They the zoo yesterday
they the zoo yesterday?
+
-
?
They the zoo yesterday