The document discusses the simple past tense, which is used to express activities completed in the past. It provides examples of affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences using the simple past tense. Key words that are used with the simple past tense include yesterday, last week, last night, and other designations of past time. A variety of examples of simple past tense verbs are given, such as swam, went, ate, built, bought, and drove.

1. Simple Past
Tense

2. We use
“Simple Past
Tense” to
express an
activity
completed in
the past

3. Types of sentences
Affirmative
sentences
Negative
sentences
Interrogative
sentences

4. He swam
He didn’t swim
Did he swim?
Where did he
swim?
They went to
school.
They did not go to
school.
Did they go to
school?

5. What did they do
yesteday?
They ate an ice-

6. Key words
Yesterday
Last week,
Last night
Two days ago
On Saturday
Last weekend
Etc…

7. What did they do
last week?

8. He built a house.
She bought a car
He drove a car
They cooked a cake
he painted the wall

9. What did they do last
tusday?