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

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

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

4. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. The End