1. The Past Simple

2. Books

4. Charles Dickens
He was an English author
He lived in the 19th century.
He wrote many novels.

5. William Shakespeare
Who was Shakespeare?
When did he live ?
What did he write ?
He was an English author
He lived in the 16th century.
He wrote poems and plays

6. Past
future
Present
Past Simple
Regular Verbs:
to clean clean / cleans cleaned cleaned
to open open /opens opened opened
Irregular verbs:
to write write/ writes wrote written
to make make/ makes made made

7. Last+time(week-month-year-summer-winter )
Key words
Last+time(week-month-year-summer-winter )
Yesterday -ago - in the past- once

8. They were famous authors .
The past of “be” Be
Were
was
He was a poet .
They were famous authors .

9. Choose the correct verb:
*King Abdul Aziz ( is – was – were – been ) a great leader.
* Layla( washes – washing– washed- wash) her dress yesterday.
* Ibn Battuta ( travels – travelled – travelling) to Asia.

10. If+sub+Past simple, sub (would +inf)
The verb doesn’t show the past but shows something imagined or impossible.
*If we lived on the moon ,we would see the Earth shining.
* If he walked to China ,he would take years.
Exception:
If + be were
* If I were a bird , I would fly everywhere.
* If he were a doctor, he would help sick people.

11. Correct the verb between the brackets:
1.Dickens ( be ) a famous English author in 19th century.
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2. If they ( go ) to the party, they would meet their old friends.
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3. If you took the medicine, you ( get ) better.
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12. The Past simple Passive
Sentence
Example :.
Shakespeare wrote the play
The play was written by Shakespeare
Object +(was –were) +p.p +by +Subject

13. Choose the right Passive structure for active statements below:2.
Choose the right Passive structure for active statements below:
1. The passive of ( Dickens made up that story).
a) That story is made up by Dickens.
b) That story was made up Dickens.
c) Dickens was made up by that story.
d) That story was made up by Dickens.
2.The Passive of ( Sami built a new house)
a) Sami was built by a new house.
b) A new house were built by Sami.
c) A new house was built by Sami.
d) A new house was build by Sami.

14. Do as Shown in brackets:
1.They travel to China last year. ( Find the mistake & correct it)
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2. If I ( be ) you , I would Study hard. ( Correct the verb )
3.Shakespear wrote famous plays. ( Change into Passive )
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4. He went to Riyadh last week ( Form a question with when )
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15. Write three sentences about Ahmad Shawqi using different grammatical structures: