Simple Past Tense: Regular Verbs - Beginner's Guide, Essays (university) of English Language

A lesson on the simple past tense with a focus on regular verbs. It includes vocabulary related to weekend activities, examples of affirmative and negative sentences, and practice exercises. The lesson is designed for pre-beginner students and aims to help them describe past activities using regular verbs. It also covers past time expressions and includes links to additional online activities.

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Module 7
Past Experiences I
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UPN, PASIÓN POR

TRANSFORMAR VIDAS

VIDEOCONFERENCE 8

Module 7 Past Experiences I Pre-beginner 2

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Weekend activities https://wordwall.net/play/4370/581/ Match the pictures and the weekend activities.

VOCABULARY: Weekend activities

listen to music (^) play instruments shop for clothes (^) play sports stay home stay^ out^ visit relatives watch^ TV

Check your answers

  1. Last Saturday morning, my brother Pedro called me. We talked for hours. I uploaded some photos, and I listened to music.
  2. I stayed out late on Saturday night. Pedro and I watched an old movie. We laughed a lot. We loved it!
  3. On Saturday afternoon, I stayed home. I watched another movie. I didn’t like the ending at all. I cried. A B C 1 3 2
  1. Last Saturday morning, my brother Pedro call ed me. We tal ked for hours. I upload ed some photos, and I listen ed to music.
  2. I stay ed out late on Saturday night. Pedro and I watch ed an old movie. We laugh ed a lot. We lov ed it!
  3. On Saturday afternoon, I stay ed home. I watch ed another movie. I didn’t like the ending at all. I cri ed.

Present or past?

Simple Past Tense Verbs Regular Irregular

Simple Past Tense listen to music stay home Regular^ stay^ out late^ watch TV verbs

Simple Past Tense _ed endings

call →

listen →

watch →

post →

start →

call

listen

ed

ed

hate →

smile →

love →

live →

dance →

hate

smile

d

d

cry →

carry →

study →

cried

carried

vowels: a,e,i,o,u consonants: b,c,d,f,g...

Simple Past Tense _ed endings

call →

listen →

watch →

post →

start →

call

listen

watch

post

start

ed

ed

ed

ed

ed

hate →

smile →

love →

live →

dance →

hate

smile

love

live

dance

d

d

d

d

d

play →

cry →

carry →

enjoy →

study

played

cried

carried

enjoyed

studied

vowels: a,e,i,o,u consonants: b,c,d,f,g...

Simple Past Tense _ed endings chat → shop → chatted shopped snowed mixed snow mix → → Exception

Look at the pictures of John and Alice. What did they do last weekend? Complete the sentences with the verbs from the box in Past simple tense.

  1. John and Alice _______________ the house.
  2. John ______________ tv.
  3. Alice ____________ the bicycle.
  4. John and Alice ____________ for clothes.
  5. John and Alice ____________ in their friends’ party. (^1 2 3 4 )

fix dance watch shop clean

We use didn’t + verb to talk about things we didn’t do in the

past.

I didn’t stay out late last night. I didn’t visit my relatives last week.

didn’t = did not

We do not change the verb after didn’t.

I didn’t visited

I didn’t visit …

NEGATIVE FORM

Subject + didn’t + verb * + complement

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rZAmzLTxUJU/TcakIbxawEI/AAAAAAAAAE4/1245GoRUer4/s1600/fotos-bob-y-patricio-jugando-al-futbol.jpg Bob Sponge’s last weekend http://24.media.tumblr.com/669fe4c57105ade508c8b08796f91c25/tumblr_mhlpvhs http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iruMNLd4l_Q/T4j-qfNoNxI/AAAAAAAAAD0/dGpHwcrqJ9k/s1600/bob+esponja+violeiro.png http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq6cvbf9LX1qiwoulo1_500.gif Complete the sentences in negative form in Simple Past tense.

1. In the morning he _______________ (visit)Patricio. He called him.

2. They ___________________ (play)tennis. They played football.

3. He _____________________(dance)salsa. He played the guitar.

4. He ________________ (watch)Tv. He read a book.

(^1 2 ) 4 Activity