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THE

THE PAST
PAST
SIMPLE
SIMPLE
Juan
Juan Carlos
Carlos Zapata
Zapata VV
Cod
Cod 1090080
1090080

Teacher:
Teacher: Angel
Angel Watler
Watler
English
English III
III

Basic
Basic Education
Education Program
Program
University
University San
San Buenaventura
Buenaventura –– seccional
seccional Cali
Cali
2010
2010
The English has two types of verbs in
the past tense

Regular verbs Irregular verbs

Regular verbs are verbs Irregular verbs are verbs that DON’T end with – ED
that end with – ED

Some Other And some


irregular irregular irregular
verbs verbs verbs do not
have a have a change at all
vowel different
change in kind of
the past change
tense

FOR POSITIVE FOR NEGATIVE


SENTENCES USE SENTENCES USE

Exception VERB BE
Regular verbs

Regular verbs are verbs that end with –


ed

Simple Form Past Tense

Walk Walk - ed

Study Studi - ed

Cry Cri – ed

Live Liv - ed
Some irregular verbs have
a vowel change in the past
tense

Simple Form Past Tense

become became

give gave

drive drove
forgot
forget
Other irregular verbs have a
different kind of change

Simple Past

teach taught
bring brought
Leave left

Hear heard

Buy bought
And some irregular verbs do not change at all

Simple Past

hit hit

put put

set set
FOR POSITIVE SENTENCES USE

For regular verbs, simply use For irregular verbs, use the correct
the – ed form of the verb in a past tense form in positive
positive sentence. sentences

When I was a child, I


PLAYED the piano Last week, I SENT you a
letter
Donna LIVED and STUDIED in The students GAVE a speech in
Paris when she was younger. English. They DID a great job

FOR NEGATIVE SENTENCES USE

Did Not Verb

+
simple
OR form
DidN’t

Carl didn’t go to work because he was sick.


Exception VERB BE

Never use DID NOT or DIDN’T with the


verb BE. Instead, just use

+
WAS
NOT
OR
WERE

I was not in the PARK


they were not studying
Meaning & Use

Some common time expressions used with the past tense?

Recently
Last year
Last month Yesterday
Last week Ago

The ed ending in English has 3 different sounds

t d id
Some regular Other regular
Some regular
verbs end with verbs end with an
verbs end with
a “d” sound: “id” sound:
a “t” sound:

These verbs have an extra


Walked Planned syllable:
Laughed played Simple Form Past
Tense
Washed Learned
Talked answered
jumped loved

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