THE PAST SIMPLE

Talking about the past

I had a lot of fun with my family on Friday.

My sister and I went for a walk last night.

We started classes at the end of August.

My uncle visited us from the US two years ago.

Did you go shopping last weekend? You didn’t finish your homework.

Regular verbs

infinitive + ed

E.g., played, started, worked, watched, painted, stayed, talked

cried, studied, stopped, planned, said, paid

Irregular verbs

Memorise the irregular forms

E.g., go → went, buy → bought, find → found, hear → heard, sell → sold, take → took, write → wrote

Questions in the past simple

did + subject + infinitive

Examples: Did you listen to music this morning?

When did you see this film?

Negative form

didn’t + infinitive

Examples: I didn’t watch TV last night.My parents didn’t go to college.

To be

He was very happy when his mother gave him Dh200.

They were in the garden all evening yesterday.

- Was she interested in your story? - No, she wasn’t. Were you in class last Monday? We weren’t happy with his

decision.