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This document discusses the simple past tense in English. It explains that the simple past is used to talk about completed actions or situations in the past. It provides examples of regular and irregular verb forms in the past tense. It demonstrates how to form negative statements and questions in the past tense using "didn't" and "did." The document provides exercises for students to practice using the simple past tense correctly in sentences.

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Simple Past

This document discusses the simple past tense in English. It explains that the simple past is used to talk about completed actions or situations in the past. It provides examples of regular and irregular verb forms in the past tense. It demonstrates how to form negative statements and questions in the past tense using "didn't" and "did." The document provides exercises for students to practice using the simple past tense correctly in sentences.

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Inglés Comunicacional III

Simple past

Académico: Mg. José Luis Bustos


Carrera: Fonoaudiología
What about Simple past?

• It’s used to express experiences from the past.


• To talk about something that was true for some time in the past.
• To talk about something that happened again and again in the
past
• The situations finished in the past.
• There are some ADVERBS to recognize the simple past.
My sister did it yesterday
I helped you for ten years
Important facts!!

• It’s easy to find the past tense expression after WHEN


• We often use phrases with ago with the past tense
When she took the ball,
she fell down!!!
When you left the house, I
smashed your computer
I met him a long time ago
I studied French ten years ago
What do these sentences have in common?

• I wrote an amazing essay about Chile’s Patagonia

• My brother-in-law travelled to Perito Moreno

• Pedro watered the eggplants yesterday.

• Crystal Castles played at the Super Ball last year

• An speech-language therapist found the cure to SLI


• I wrote an amazing essay about Chile’s Patagonia

• My brother-in-law travelled to Perito Moreno


Verbs → REGULARS
What are they?

She helped me with the homework


The lizzard moved very slow
My teacher explained the simple past tense
Mr. James started a new speech workshop
Present Suffix (Past) Verb in past

• Help • ed • Helped
• Move • ed • Moved
• Explain • ed • Explained
• Start • ed • Started
Verbs → IRREGULARS

What are they?

She forgot her child at the hospital


The fire fighter drove very fast to the accident
My headmaster broke the rules
Sussie felt very good
Ex.

• Choose → Chose Feed → Fed Cut → Cut Drive → Drove

• Begin → Began Break → Broke Keep → Kept Know → Knew

• Feel → Felt Do → Did Grow → Grew Have → Had

• Leave → Left Meet → Met Sit → Sat Take → Took

• Go → Went Teach → Taught Hear → Heard Forget → Forgot


Practice
How do I say NO !! in past?

• Look at the examples:

• I didn’t feed my cats last week


• I didn’t water my roses
• I didn’t pay the rent last month
• You must use DID + NOT (DIDN’T) to express a negative situation in PAST

• I did not go to school = I didn’t go to school

• I did not eat anything = I didn’t eat anything

• I did not get a good mark = I didn’t get a good mark


Practice
How do I create a question in Past tense?
• You must use DID at the beginning to do a question in PAST

• Did you feel the wind?


• Did she phone yesterday?
• What did you do on vacations?
• Why did you select that section?
• Where did you buy those delicious french fries?
Practice
True or false?
• We use it for things in the past which have finished.
• We use it for things in the past with a connection to the present.
• We use it for single events or situations in the past.
• We use it for repeated events in the past.
• We use it for things a long way back in the past and in the recent past.
• We only use it for things a long way back in the past.
• We use the auxiliary "did" to form questions and negatives.
• We use the auxiliary "have" to form questions and negatives.
Check the text
• My mother travelled with me and my sister to another country, was
very funny, and had a lot of fun together. We went to the swimming
pool and when had some drinks at the pool. I took some beers and
my mom eat some cake, is so boring.

• I had a great trip last month. We have a lot of fun in Brazil, stayed at a
hotel with my friends, the hotel didn’t had a swimming pool, so, we
swam at the ocean only. We cost 100 dollars per day. Thanks god I
had more money to spend the rest of the week. Anyway, was an
awesome experience. I want to go back again.
• My mother travelled with me and my sister to another country, it was
very funny, and we had a lot of fun together. We went to the
swimming pool and WHEN we had some drinks at the pool. I drink
some beers and my mom ate some cake, she is so boring.

• I had a great trip last month. We had a lot of fun in Brazil, we stayed
at a hotel with my friends, the hotel didn’t have a swimming pool, so,
we swam at the ocean only. We spent 100 dollars per day. Thanks god
I had more money to spend the rest of the week. Anyway, it was an
awesome experience. I want to go back again.
Did you notice the differences? (Questions and
answers)
A: Did you stay at home last Saturday night?
B: Yes, I did
A: What did you do?
B: I stayed at home. I watched some movies.
A: Did you watch Nightmare on Elm Street?
B: Yes, I did
A: How was it?
B: It was very scary
Did you notice the differences? (Questions and
answers)
• A: Did you go to Lollapalooza last weekend?
• B: No, I didn’t
• A: So, What did you do last weekend?
• B: I travelled to the south. I wanted to visit my family.
• A: Great!! Did you stay at home?
• B: No, I didn’t
• A: Why?!! Where did you stay?
• B: I stayed at the Lake Hotel.
Practice
Verbs
• Like → Liked

• Carry → Carried

• Stop → Stopped
Inglés Comunicacional III
Simple past

Académico: Mg. José Luis Bustos


Carrera: Fonoaudiología

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