1. Simple Past Tens Detective Conan was on a mission.
To find out how my students spent last week.

2. Affirmative Past (Positive)
To express an event that took place in the past we add ed to the regular verb.
Mariam baked delicious cookies last week.
bake ed
baked + =

3. Adam plant some flowers.
Affirmative Past (Positive)
Adam plant some flowers. ed
Sam hike in the woods. d
Sarah celebrate her birthday. d

4. Affirmative Past (Positive)
Irregular verbs change completely.
went go
drove
drive
ate
eat
brought
bring
The girls went on a picnic last week.

5. Negative Past Conan made a revelation. All the students lied.
Adam plant some flowers.
did not
Sam hike in the woods.
did not
Sarah celebrate her birthday.
did not
To express a negative event in the past we use did, not and verb in base form.

6. Interrogative
So Conan had to do some more investigation to discover the truth. He asked the student’s mother.
NO, they didn’t.
Did Adam plant some flowers?
Did Sam hike in the woods?
Did Sarah celebrate her birthday?
To interrogate using past tens, use Did, and verb in base form.

7. What did everyone do last week????????
Wh Questions
What did everyone do last week????????
To form a wh question in the past, use a wh word (when, what , where, who..etc.) + did + verb in base form.
They played computer games all week.

8. Shame , they wasted a lot of precious time.

9. Things to Remember 1. 2. 3. We use Past Simple Tense to….
express events which took place in the past. 2.
We add ed for the past form of a regular verb, while the irregular verbs change completely. 3.
Keywords which will indicate a Past Simple Tense are:
Yesterday
ago (two days ago, few years ago, …etc.)
last (last week, last year, last Monday…..etc.)
Ms. Reem Ibrahim © 2011