This document provides information about using the past simple tense in English. It discusses when the past simple tense is used, such as for completed actions in the past. It also covers the formation of regular and irregular past tense verbs. Examples are given of affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences in the past simple tense. The document concludes by correcting example sentences about historical figures to use the appropriate past tense verbs.

1. PAST SIMPLE
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2. WHEN DO WE USE PAST SIMPLE?
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• We use Past Simple Tense when we talk about
completed actions in the past
Example:
-I washed my car yesterday.
-She ate pizza last night.

3. USE OF THE SIMPLE PAST
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1.Actions completed in the past.
-Columbus sailed to America in 1498.
-My father died last year.
-We crossed the Channel yesterday.
2.Actions that happened over a period of time in the past.
-John worked in Barcelona for two years.
-I kived in Rubi for ten years.
3.Habitual or repeated actions in the past.
-When I was a child we always went to the cinema at
the weekends.
-When I lived in Rubi I never visited my family.

4. PAST SIMPLE TENSE: REGULAR VERBS
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oAffirmative:
The past tense of regular verbs is formed by adding –d
or – ed to the base form of the verb. I worked in a shop
last year, I lived in a big house when I was younger.
I worked hard last weekend

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Simple Past Tense: Irregular verbs
oAffirmative:
Irregular past verb forms must be learned because they
don’t follow any rule:
Go
Come
Buy
Drink
Eat
Find
See
went
came
bought
drank
ate
found
saw
I went to Paris last July

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PAST SIMPLE TENSE: REGULAR and IRREGULAR
VERBS
oNegative:
Use did not or didn’t + a base form verb to makethe
past simple tense negative. I didn’t worklast summer
I didn’t live in a flatduring my
last Summer holidays.
I didn’t go to Berlin last July

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• Did you travel by boat last holidays?
Yes, I did.
• Did you see any dolphins? No
I didn’t.
oInterrogative:
Use did + subject + a base form verb to make the past
simple interrogative. Did you play sport lastSummer?
PAST SIMPLE TENSE: REGULAR and IRREGULAR
VERBS

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KINDS OF SENTENCES IN PAST SIMPLE TENSE
 Affirmative sentences
Tom visited us last week.
I ran in the competition.
 Negative sentences
Tom didn’t visit us last week.
I didn’t run in the competition.
SUBJECT
SUBJECT DIDN’T VERB IN BASE FORM
COMPLEMENT.
VERB IN PAST TENSE COMPLEMENT.

9. KINDS OF QUESTIONS IN PAST SIMPLE
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 Yes/No Questions
Did Tom visit you last week?
 Informative Questions
Where did you run last year?
SUBJECTDID VERB IN BASE FORM
COMPLEMENT?
WH WORD DID SUBJECT
VERB IN BASE FORM COMPLEMENT?

10. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE USE THE VERB TO BE?
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 Recall its past tense
 Negative Sentences
Use the negative form or the contractions.
Never use didn’t.
WAS WERE
WAS NOT
WERE NOT
WASN’T
WERENT

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 Yes/No Questions
Was Irene in the house?
Were they at the Mall?
 Informative Questions
Why was Irene in the house?
Where were you last night?
WAS / WERE SUBJECT COMPLEMENT?
WH WORD WAS / WERE SUBJECT
COMPLEMENT?

12. NOW CORRECT THESE SENTENCES.
SAY THE ANSWERS.
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Vasco da Gama climbed Mount Everest.
He didn’t climb MountEverest.
He found a sea route to India.
1) Neil Armstrong found a sea route to India.
2)Ferdinand Magellan landed on the Moon.
3) James Cook reached the South
Pole.
4)Marco Polo explored Austrealia.
5)Edmund Hillary travelled to China in 1275.
6)Roald Amundsen sailed around the world in
1521.

13. ANSWERS
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1 Neil Armstrong didn’t find asea route to
India, he landed on the moon.
2 Ferdinand Magellan didn’t land on the
Moon, he sailed around the world.
3 James Cook didn’t reach the South
Pole, he explored the coast of
Australia.
4 Marco Polo didn’t explore Australia, he
travelled overland to China.
5 Edmund Hillary didn’t travel to China in
1275, he climbed Mount Everest.
6 Roald Amundsen didn’t sail around the
world in 1521, he reached the South Pole.

14. THANKS FOR WATCHING
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