Primary Longman Elect 3B Chapter 5 Simple past tense (2)

Simple past tense: irregular verbs What did you do on your birthday? I had a birthday party.

Simple past tense: irregular verbs What did you eat and drink? We ate cake and drank cola.

Simple past tense: irregular verbs We cannot add ed to some action words in the simple past tense. These are called irregular verbs. They look different from their present tense form. e.g. buy  bought drink  drank eat  ate give  gave have  had ride  rode see  saw sing  sang take  took

Key structure What did you do on your birthday? I had a birthday party.

Practice Give the correct past tense form of the action word. eat  ate

Practice Give the correct past tense form of the action word. see  saw

Practice Give the correct past tense form of the action word. drink  drank

Practice Give the correct past tense form of the action word. sing  sang

Practice Give the correct past tense form of the action word. ride  rode

Practice Give the correct past tense form of the action word. give  gave

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