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The simple past The simple past • In the english language we can find to types of verbs • Regular • Irregular Look at the list of past tense verb… Which verbs are regular and which verbs are irregular? • • • • • • • • • • Worked Lived Enjoyed Taught Loved Wrote Became Cried Did Studied regular regular regular irregular regular irregular irregular regular irregular regular • What is a REGULAR verb? • End with –ed • • • • Simple form Watch Wash Love past form watched washed loved • There some exeptions Regular verbs ending with Y…. Change the Y into a i and add the ED Cry cried Tom’s brother cried all night long Regular verbs ending with E… just add D Love loved She loved this movie when she was with her boyfriend Exeptions: Enjoy enjoyed I enjoyed your company last week • What is an irregular verb? • Those verbs that don’t end with ED In some cases can change just one letter Like in: Simple form simple past Become became Drive drove Give gave Forget forgot Other irregular verbs change its form completely as in: • Simple form simple past Buy bought Teach taught Sell sold Take took bought Jessica ________ (buy) a nice house in the Beach took He ________(take) his car and ______(drive) to his girlfriend’s house drove • There are some verbs that don’t change at all: Simple form simple past • Cut cut • Set set • Put put • Hit hit She hit his brother in the face Yesterday I cut my hair. How I miss it Let’s see some exercises • • • • • • • Tina_____ (buy) a new car She ____ (lose) her keys He ____ (win) the football cup of his school Jonny____ (be) an amazing person We_____ (love) eat pop corn at the cinema We ____ (go) to the park last Sunday They_____ (watch) a TV show Negative from To form negative sentences with the regular and irregular verbs you have to use DID NOT or DIDN’T and the verb stay in the infinitive form Example: I played voleyball yesterday I didn’t play voleyball yesterday. Exercice: Change these positive sentences into negatives o I loved her ___________________________________________________ o You took my car ______________________________________________ o We went to the post office _______________________________________ o She had a pen __________________________________________________ o I watched TV last night __________________________________________ o I closed my bank account_______________________________________ o I had a shower _________________________________________________ o He red harry Potter three times last year___________________________ How can we make questions with short answers in simple past? • In order to create questions follow this formula… DID+ pronoun or subject+ verb (infinitive)+complement? Did + you + Answer Yes, I did / No, I didn’t sell + your car ? Did + she + lose + her keys? (√) Did + we + drive+ to your house last night? (X) • Wh- questions In order to use Wh-questions you can folllow this formula… Wh Q + did + pronoun + verb inf.+ complement Where + did + you + sleep + last night? Answer: pRonoun + verb (past) + complement I slept in my uncle’s house exercises Order the following sentences. She/ leave/ where/the car/ did? she leaft the car inside my garden why/ move/ he/did/ here? because she fought with her mom What did you do last night? a party/ I/ went /to Did you watch TV last night? did/ I/ yes. What did she buy? bought/ she/ some new clothes you/ sleep/ well/ did? Yes, I did thank you