FOCUS 1: Unit 6 past simple intro

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Past Simple

FOCUS 1 unit 6

in Dutch: verleden tijd

Past Simple

You use the past simple when something happened in the past and is finished

Past Simple - Regular Verbs

After a regular verb you put '-ed'

I walk -> I walked

He walks -> He walked

They walk -> They walked

Past Simple - Regular verbs

Spelling:
A verb ending on a consonant + -y, ---> -y in -ie:

• I carry - I carried

No change with a vowel + -y :

• I play - I played

When a verb ends with an -e, then just + -d 

• I live - I lived

Final consonant is doubled when it ends with vowel + consonant:

• I drop - I dropped

VOWELS

Past Simple - Irregular verbs

Some verbs in English are irregular, this means that in the past tense they don't get '-ed' at the end, but have their own form.

To write -> wrote; I wrote her a letter last week

to go -> went; He went to Italy last year

to make -> made: They made a very nice meal two days ago

Past simple 

irregular verb 

'to be'

Past Simple - Irregular verbs

There are no rules for the irregular verbs, you just have to learn them by heart

Past Simple - Keywords

Keywords are called 'signaal woorden'  

These word help you to see if something happened in the past

• yesterday
• last week
• ten minutes ago
• in 2007

My sister .......... (play) the guitar last year.

They ....... (go) home after school yesterday.

What is the past tense of: Help

1. helping
2. helped
3. helps
4. help'd

What is the past tense of: study

1. studyd
2. studyied
3. studyed
4. studied

What is the past tense of: buy

1. buyed
2. bought
3. boughd
4. bught

What is the past tense of: walk

1. walkt
2. wolked
3. wolk
4. walked

fill in: I ..... a sandwich yesterday.

1. eat
2. drink
3. drank
4. ate

Fill in: We ..... on holiday 2 years ago.

1. go
2. went
3. been
4. walked

Fill in: I ..... very happy yesterday.

1. am
2. is
3. was
4. were

You use a past simple when...

1. something happened in the future
2. something happens every day
3. something happened in the past and is finished
4. something didn't happen yet.

Name one of the keywords belonging to the past simple

When do you use the past simple?

Give an example of an
irregular verb

And an example
of a regular verb

What is the past simple
of to be?

Any questions?