Simple Past Tense

To express what already happened.

 Regular or irregular???
• Brush – Go – Want – Kick – Hit – Drive – Eat – Study –
Talk – Ride – See.

Regular Verbs Irregular Verbs

Brushed Went

Wanted Hit

Kicked Drove

Studied Ate

Talked Rode
Saw
 Why use the simple past?
• Use the simple past
for activities and
situations already
started and ended.
• Example: Last week,
Homer drank a beer.
• Example: Our class
took a quiz yesterday.
• Both the time adverb
and the verb typically
indicate past tense.
 What is the simple past?
• To create the simple past, add –ed to most
simple present verbs.
Verbs: kiss, start, live, close, study, play,
cook.
4. Yesterday Kahn Studied
____ English for two hours.
5. Mayra ____
Played tennis last monday.
6. Yesterday Ana ____Kissed her boyfriend.
7. Roberto Cooked
____ an apple pie yesterday.
8. Kim ____
Closed the door and turned the lights off.

9. Jo Started
____to learn French when he ____ Lived in
France.
 Some time expressions
• Last Night
• Last week
• Yesterday
• Last Monday/Friday etc.
• Last week/weekend
• Last Year
• In April
• Last month
 Negative form
Present simple
• Bart do not play soccer
don´t

Past simple
• Bart did not play soccer yesterday
didn´t
 Negative form

I went to school I didn’t go to school

She studied all night She didn’t study all night

They ate a lot They didn’t eat a lot

We had lunch We didn’t have lunch

In the negative form we need to use the auxiliary did + not (didn’t).
remember that when we use the auxiliary we put the verb in the
INFINITIVE (present)form.
Do you use irregular past verbs?
1. Most irregular verbs
change vowels.
– Begin/began,
come/came,
give/gave
2. Some irregular verbs
end in “t.”
– Build/built,
feel/felt,
sweep/swept
3. A few irregular verbs
don’t change.
– Cost/cost, fit/fit,
let/let
Is the past form of
‘understand’ irregular?
 Which is the past form?
• Sylvia blow/blew the odd guy off.
• Alfredo drew/drawn a cool picture.
• Minh kept/keep his place in class.
• The bank lend/lent Foram $5,000.
• The professor tore/tear the paper.
• Krupal stood/stand in the back.
• The girl wear/wore red lipstick.
 What does used to mean?
• Used to expresses a
past habit or
situation that no
longer exists.
• Example: Raquel used
to watch cartoons
when she was little.
• Now she is a busy
working mother with
no time for cartoons,
but her children
watch them.
Does the man still
live in luxury?
What is didn’t use to?
• Didn’t use to means
that you never did it.
• Example: The
teacher has never
used drugs, so he
didn’t use to take
them at all.
• Example: Did you use
to play in the sand
when you were a kid?
• Example: Did college
students use to have
computers?
Do cats play
in the sand?
 Can you fill in the verbs?
Verbs: finish, get, put, want, use, forget, find,
talk, be, lose, call, do, and remember.
4. Poor Carmen __ her cell phone inside her own car.
5. She __ that it __ in her car just the day before.
6. She __ her friend Abdul to talk about their date.
7. When she __ speaking, she __ the phone down.
8. She __ out of the car, leaving the phone in there.
9. She __ busy in her house and __ think about it.
10. Then she __ to call someone, and __ it again.
Do you know the past verbs?
present past present past
• begin ___ 1. know ___
• buy ___ 2. leave ___
• drive ___ 3. lose ___
• fail ___ 4. mean ___
• feel ___ 5. pay ___
• go ___ 6. sell ___
• grow ___ 7. sit ___
• hear ___ 8. think ___
 Can you use the
academic vocabulary?
• Words to use: achieve, effect, approach,
chapter, and context.
3. How do you complete or __ your goals?
4. How do you __ change in your life?
5. How do you __ the way of learning?
6. What division or __ are you reading?
7. In what situation or __ can you study?

Watch for these words

on the next quiz.