The document provides information about using past tense verbs in English. It lists regular and irregular verbs and provides rules for forming the past tense of regular verbs by adding "-ed" or "-d". Examples are given of affirmative and negative statements in both simple past and present tenses. Questions beginning with "wh-" are presented along with examples. An activity is included where students find classmates who did various activities in the past.

1. What did you do yesterday?
• Simple Past Tense
• Regular Verbs
• Irregular verbs
• Wh- and Yes / No questions in
Past Tense
• Be in Past Tense

2. REGULAR VERBS

3. Spill
Pinch Want
Talk

4. Walk Play
Listen Jump

5. CountLaugh
CloseOpen

6. Watch TV
Play TV games Dance
Cry

7. Wait
Climb
Use a computer
Clean

8. Play football Play the piano
CookCall

9. Turn on Turn off
Share Study

10. Push
Pull Look at
Fix

11. Colour Look for
Wash Ask

12. REGULAR VERBS
Spelling rules
To form the affirmative past tense of most regular verbs:
• Add –ed to the base form of the verb (wash-
washed).
• If the verb ends in –e, add –d (live-lived)
• If the verb ends in a consonant preceded by a vowel,
double the final consonant (stop-stopped)
• If the verb ends in –y preceded by a consonant,
omit the “y” and add –ied ( copy-copied)

13. W r i t e t h e p a s t t e n s e f o r m .
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Dance_________
Plan_________
Clean_________
Type_________
Study_________
Shop_________
Look_________
Play_________
Empty_________
10. Stop_________
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Wash_________
Work_________
Shave_________
Carry_________
Listen________
Turn ________
Ask ________
Answer ________
Push ________
10. Wait ________

14. SIMPLE PRESENT
POSITIVE STATEMENT NEGATIVE STATEMENT
I work in Mushrooms Company. I don’t work in The Coke Company.
He lives in that small house. He doesn’t live in the big one.
We study in the CETis We don´t study in the CBTis
Maria knows how to cook. Maria doesn’t know how to make
tortillas
Today I have a party. Today I don´t have classes.
My mom has my wallet My mom doesn’t have her purse

15. SIMPLE PAST
POSITIVE STATEMENT NEGATIVE STATEMENT
I worked in Mushrooms Company in
May.
I didn’t work in The Coke
Company.
He lived in that small house 2 years
ago.
He didn’t live in the big one.
We studied in the CETis last year. We didn’t study in the CBTis
Maria knew how to cook. Maria didn’t know how to make
tortillas
Yesterday I had a party. Today I didn’t have classes.
My mom had my wallet last night. My mom didn’t have her purse

16. / d / / t / / id /
Play played Walk walked Need needed
Mail mailed Stop stopped Wait waited
Try tried Look looked Visit visited
PRONUNCIATION. Practice with a partner and locate the regular
verbs according to their pronunciation. (See the verb list in the
appendix).

17. Expressions for Past Tense
last ago yesterday
last night 10 minutes ago yesterday
last Sunday an hour ago yesterday morning
last week three days ago yesterday afternoon
last weekend a week ago yesterday evening
last year a month ago the day before yesterday
last month a year ago

18. IRREGULAR VERBS

19. Win
GiveFind
Break

20. Throw awayTake a picture
ThinkCut

21. Hit
Hold
Hurt
Buy

22. ReadWrite
Sleep Run

23. Put onFly
Take a bath Win

24. Catch Throw
Draw Lose

25. Swim
Make a sandcastle Fight
Speak

26. Ride Sing
GoCome

27. Eat
Drink

28. 1. Drive ________ 7.- get ________ 13.- buy ________
2. Take ________ 8.- eat ________ 14.- ring ________
3.- run ________ 9.- see ________ 15.- sing ________
4.- do ________ 10.-forget ________ 16.- bring ________
5.- leave ________ 11.- make ________ 17.- read ________
6. -go ________ 12.- write ________ 18.- hear ________
Look for the Past Form of the following
verbs in your list.

29. Write the correct form of the verb on the lines.
Use the Simple Past Tense.
• John Lennon (be) _________ born in 1940 in
Liverpool, England, where he (grow up)
___________. As a teenager, he (meet)
_________Paul McCartney, and they (begin)
_________ to write songs together. After several
years, they (form) _________ a new group
called the Beatles, with George Harrison and
Pete Best. However, Best (NO-stay)
_______________ in the group. Bingo Starr
(join) _________ the group in place of Best. In
1964 the group (perform) _________ its first hit
son “Love Me Do”. ….. Next Page….

30. Write the correct form of the verb on the lines.
Use the Simple Past Tense.
• Between the years 1962 and 1968 the Beatles
(be) _________ the most famous group in the
world. In 1969, Lennon (decide) _________ to
perform alone. He (write) _________ the song
“Give Peace a Chance” and (make) several
albums alone. He also (act) _________ in films.
From that time on, he (have) _________ many
problems. For example, he (leave) _________
his wife, Yoko Ono, for a time. Finally, in 1983,
Mark David Chapman (kill) _________ Lennon.
Lennon’s life (end) _________, but his music
lives on today.

31. W H - A N D D I D Q U E S T I O N S
QUESTION ANSWER
What did you do last
Sundays?
I played soccer with my friends.
Where did you play soccer? I played soccer in the park.
How long did you stay there? We stayed there for about 2 hours.
Did you enjoy the match? Yes, I did. I got so exhausted but I
liked it.
Did you do something else that
day?
No, I didn’t. Well, I just called my
girlfriend and went out with her.

32. Ask the following Questions to your
partener and answer back too
1. Where did you go on vacation?
2. What did you do?
3. Who did you see?
4. Which movie did you watch on vacation?
5. Did you like it?
6.
7.
Did you meet someone special?
Did you study anything?
8. Did you read a magazine?

33. FIND SOMEONE WHO...
Name
____________________
____________________
____________________
____________________
____________________
____________________
____________________
____________________
____________________
1. watched the news.
2. listened to the radio.
3. ate at a restaurant.
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•
•
•
•
visited grandparents.
studied for an exam.
went to the movies.
cleaned your room.
took a shower.
9. played an instrument.
10. worked in the computer. ____________________

34. Now, It´s time for
practicing in class!
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