1. The simple past
The simple past

2. Worked Lived Enjoyed Taught Loved Wrote Became Cried Did Studied
In the english language we can find to types of verbs
Regular
Irregular
Look at the list of past tense verb…
Which verbs are regular and
which verbs are irregular?
Worked
Lived
Enjoyed
Taught
Loved
Wrote
Became
Cried
Did
Studied
regular
regular
regular
irregular
regular
irregular
irregular
regular
irregular
regular

3. What is a REGULAR verb?
End with –ed
Simple form past form
Watch watched
Wash washed
Love loved

4. There some exeptions
Regular verbs ending with Y…. Change the Y into a i and add the ED
Cry cried
Tom’s brother cried all night long
Regular verbs ending with E… just add D
Love loved
She loved this movie when she was with her boyfriend
Exeptions:
Enjoy enjoyed
I enjoyed your company last week

5. What is an irregular verb?
Those verbs that don’t end with ED
In some cases can change just one letter
Like in:
Simple form simple past
Become became
Drive drove
Give gave
Forget forgot

6. Other irregular verbs change its form completely as in:
Simple form simple past
Buy bought
Teach taught
Sell sold
Take took
Jessica ________ (buy) a nice house in the
Beach
He ________(take) his car and ______(drive) to
his girlfriend’s house
bought
took
drove

7. There are some verbs that don’t change at all:
Simple form simple past
Cut cut
Set set
Put put
Hit hit
She hit his brother in the face
Yesterday I cut my hair. How I miss it

8. Let’s see some exercises
Tina_____ (buy) a new car
She ____ (lose) her keys
He ____ (win) the football cup of his school
Jonny____ (be) an amazing person
We_____ (love) eat pop corn at the cinema
We ____ (go) to the park last Sunday
They_____ (watch) a TV show

9. Negative from To form negative sentences with the regular
and irregular verbs you have to use DID
NOT or DIDN’T and the verb stay in the infinitive
form
Example:
I played voleyball yesterday
I didn’t play voleyball yesterday.

10. Exercice:
Change these positive sentences into negatives
I loved her ___________________________________________________
You took my car ______________________________________________
We went to the post office _______________________________________
She had a pen __________________________________________________
I watched TV last night __________________________________________
I closed my bank account_______________________________________
I had a shower _________________________________________________
He red harry Potter three times last year___________________________

11. How can we make questions with short answers in simple past?
In order to create questions follow this
formula…
DID+ pronoun or subject+ verb (infinitive)+complement?
Did you sell your car ?
Answer
Yes, I did / No, I didn’t
Did + she + lose + her keys? (√)
Did + we + drive+ to your house last night? (X)

12. Wh- questions
In order to use Wh-questions you can folllow
this formula…
Wh Q + did + pronoun + verb inf.+ complement
Where + did you sleep last night?
Answer:
pRonoun + verb (past) + complement
I slept in my uncle’s house

13. exercises Order the following sentences.
She/ leave/ where/the car/ did? she leaft the car inside my garden
why/ move/ he/did/ here? because she fought with her mom
What did you do last night? a party/ I/ went /to
Did you watch TV last night? did/ I/ yes.
What did she buy? bought/ she/ some new clothes
you/ sleep/ well/ did? Yes, I did thank you