The document explains the use of simple past tense verbs, highlighting their formation by adding 'ed' to action words and providing examples in affirmative and negative sentences. It lists signal words that indicate past actions and suggests question formats for inquiring about past events. Overall, it serves as a guide for understanding and using the simple past tense in English.

1. SIMPLE PAST TENSE

2. Verbs are Action Words
Here are some examples
• Walk
• Jump
• Talk
• Play

3. Add
“ ed”

4. The verbs in our sentences change when we talk
about what has already happened
Affirmative Sentences
watch + ed = watched
I walk to school - I walked to school
You play in the park -You played in the park
I jump on my bed – I jumped on my bed
She likes to sleep on the sofa - She liked to sleep on
the sofa.

5. Negative Sentences
Use didn’t
- I didn’t walk to school
- You didn’t play in the park
- I didn’t jump on my bed
- She didn’t like to sleep on
the sofa

6. Some signal Words:
Yesterday
Last night,
Last week,
Last year,
A month ago…
Two years ago…

7. Questions
What did you do?
Where did you go?
When did you rest?
What did she eat?
Why did he play?