SIMPLE PAST

What do we use simple past for?

• To talk about states, actions and events in the past

• To only talk about states in the past

• To talk about states, actions and events in the present and past

With regular verbs: How do you form the past of a regular verb that ends in -e?

• Add d:

  Loved / created

• double the last consonant and add -ed

  Lovved / creatted

• Change -e to i and add -d

  Lovid / Creatid

• Add -ed

  Loveed / createed

With regular verbs: How do you form the past of a regular verb that ends in -vowel + consonant?

• Add d:

  Hop / hopd

• double the last consonant and add -ed

  hop / hopped

• add -id

  Hopid / hop

• Add -ed

  Hop / Hoped

With regular verbs: How do you form the past of a regular verb that ends in consonant + -y?

• Add d:

  copy / copyd

• double the last consonant and add -ed

  copy / copyyed

• Change -y to i and add -d

  copy / copied

• Add -ed

  copy / copyed

With regular verbs: How do you form the past of a regular verb that ends in any consonant?

• Add d:

  work / workd

• double the last consonant and add -ed

  work / workked

• Add to the final consonant -id

  work / workid

• Add -ed

  work / worked

What rules exist for irregular verbs?

• Some of them change completely:

  Teach / taught

• Some of them remain the same

  Put/put

• In some of them, only one vowel changes:

  know/knew

• All of the previous rules

Write the grammar structure for the affirmative sentence

You had an interesting life

Each group member write one sentence that describes what you did yesterday:

Yesterday I visited my boyfriend and we ate delicious food