yesterday.... things i did yesterday: i _____________the violin. i ____________. played studied
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Some things I didn’t do yesterday
• I didn’t _________ volleyball.
• I ________ ______ a test.
play
didn’t do
• Where _________ you go last January?
• What _________ you do there?
• _______ you buy anything interesting?
did
did
Did
I __________ to Gramado, RS. (go)
I _________ lots of cool places. (visit)
Yes, I _______ clothes and chocolates.(buy)
went
visited
bought
* The simple past tense is one of the most common tenses in English.
*Its form is the same with all subjects
* It is usually formed by adding -ED to the verb
Verb ending in... How to make the simple past Examples
e We add -d Live - lived
Consonant + y Change y to i, we add -ed try - tried
One vowel + one consonant (but NOT w or
y)
Double the consonant, then we
add -ed
commit - committed
[anything else] We add -edboil - boiled
fill - filled
Simple Past Tense
awoke
was, were
became
began
caught
ate
Past Participle
awoken
been
become
begun
caught
eaten
Present
awake
be
become
begin
catch
eat
Some of the Irregular Verbs
John …………………..( not / work ) yesterday. His family ………………….( not / be) at home. He ……………………( think ) his new car . Then , he ……………(sleep ) in the garden .
didn’t work
Weren’t thought
slept
Did your grandmother clean the house yesterday ?
No , she didn’t.
She only watched television and ate chips in her living room yesterday.
Why didn’t you talk to each other at the party?
Because we argued with each other two days ago.
WHY? BECAUSE.…
Ha ha ha..Ha ha ha…
What did the frogs talk about ?They talked about the childhood of the frog ‘Kermit’.
I went to Rome yesterday.
She cleaned the house last week.
We played two hours ago.
We use the simple past for an action that began and ended in the past.
Past Simple Use
– He came in, took off his coat and sat down. – I went into the disco and I saw my favourite
girl, then I asked her to dance,...
Actions that happened one after the other in the past (like in a story)
USAGE
- When I was a child, I drank milk twice a day.-When he was young, he rode his bike to work.
Habits in the Past
Time expressions
• Yesterday – Yesterday morning/afternoon/evening
• Two days ago – Two hours/weeks/months/years ago
• Last month – Last week/year/Friday/night
• In 2007– In January
Now, fill in the blanks about my trip• Last January I _______ to Gramado, RS
with my sister. We ______ a plane to Porto Alegre and then a bus. We _______ in a very nice hotel in town.
went took stayed
We __________(visit) lots of interesting places, like Canela, Caxias do Sul and Cambará. We also _______(buy) clothes and chocolates. We _________ (feel/neg.)hot because the climate
there is wonderful .
visited
boughtdidn’t feel