Past Simple TenseI lived in Granada when I was young

I didn't study much, but I was lucky and passed my exams

Did your parents study when they were young?

 

  Hello everybody! My name is Past Simple Boy because I am very nostalgic and I always talk about the past.This is an old picture of me. I was eighteen in this picture. It was

thirteen years ago.

I studied at University at that time. I lived with my friends Paco and Javi in a big and old flat. We didn't study much and we enjoyed our life. Every weekend we went to the disco and met new girls. I remember I had a girlfriend called Margarita.

I finished my studies in 1995. A year later I started to work as a Language teacher  in a Secondary school. Life is not too bad, but those days were fantastic!

Do you know about your parents' life when they were young?

Now that you have read the story, write True or False for each statement

_____1.He studied at Málaga University.

_____2.Paco and Javi were his flatmates

____ 3.The flat was near the university

_____4.They used to go to the disco every day

_____5.He finished his studies in Granada in 1997

_____6.They used to study a lot

_____7.He is a language teacher in a secondary school

_____8..He married his girlfriend Margarita

Past Simple Form

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Past Simple Boy

Affirmative Negative InterrogativeI studied

You studied

He studiedShe studiedIt studied

We studiedYou studiedThey studied

I wentYou went

He wentShe wentIt went

We wentYou wentThey went

I didn't study/ go You didn't study/ go

He didn't study /goShe didn't study/ goIt didn't study/ go

We didn't study/ goYou didn't study/ goThey didn't study/ go

Did I study/go?Did you study/ go?

Did he study/ go?Did she study/ go?Did it study/ go?

Did we study/ go?Did you study/ go?Did they study/ go?

Past Simple Use

Past Simple Boy  

Uses Examples

Actions that started and finished in the past I didn't go to the beach last Sunday

Actions that happened one after the other in the past (like in a story)

I went into the disco and I saw my favorite girl, then I asked her to dance,.........

With the Past Continuous to refer to a short action that interrupts a longer one.

The TV broke when she was watching the football match

Spelling

1. We add -d (not -ed) to the verb that ends with -e: like - liked2. If it ends with a consonant and -y, we change -y into -i: carry - carried, try - tried.***But: play - played, because it ends with a vowel and -y.3. If it has only one syllable and ends with a vowel and a consonant, we double the consonant to keep the same pronunciation: stop - stopped. The same rule applies to the  -l ending: travel - travelled.

Irregular verbs

All the irregular verbs have different forms. For example: choose - chose, draw - drew, drink - drank, meet - met, see - saw, think - thought. But the question and negative are made in the same way: I learnt - Did you learn? No, I did not learn.

A : Simple Past: Regular Verbs 11. play a.   played

b. plaied c.   playyed

2. studya.  studied b.   studyed c.   studed

3. departa.   departied b. departted c.   departed

4. trapa.   trapied b.  traped c.  trapped

5. permita. permitied b. permited c.  permitted

6. bathe

a. bathhed b. bathied c.  bathed

7. marrya. married b. marryyed c. marryed

8. faila. failied b. failled c. failed

9. showa. showwed b. showed c.  showied

10. sharea. shared b. sharied c. sharred

B : Put the verb in brackets in the correct simple past form.

My grandfather had a very exciting life. When he was young, he _____________ (live) on a farm in the country. His parents _____________ (raise) cattle, and he _____________ (look) after the cows. When he was eighteen, he went to university, where he _____________ (study) Philosophy. He also _____________ (play) the trumpet in a jazz band. When the war started, he _____________ (try) to join the Air Force, but he _____________ (end) up in the Navy. In the Atlantic, a German torpedo _____________ (rip) a hole in the side of his ship, and the ship sank. Only five men_____________ (escape). They_____________ (sail) in a lifeboat back to England. Then he met my grandmother, and they _____________ (marry) after only three weeks. He says now that he_____________ (want) to marry her very quickly in case he _____________ (die) in the war.

C : Make the past simple, positive, negative or question

1) I _________didn’t drink___________ (not/drink) any beer last night.

2) She ______________________ (get on) the bus in the centre of the city.

3) What time ______________________ (he/get up) yesterday?

4) Where ______________________ (you/get off) the train?

5) I ______________________ (not/change) trains at Victoria.

6) We ______________________ (wake up) very late.

7) What ______________________ (he/give) his mother for Christmas?

8) I ______________________ (receive) £300 when my uncle died.

9) We ______________________ (not/use) the computer last night.

10) ______________________ (she/make) good coffee?

11) They ______________________ (live) in Paris.

12) She ______________________ (read) the newspaper yesterday.

13) I ______________________ (not/watch) TV.

14) He ______________________ (not/study) for the exam.

15) ______________________ (he/call) you?

16) ______________________ (I/forget) something?

17) What time ______________________ (the film/start)?

18) He ______________________ (have) a shower.

19) Why ______________________ (you/come)?

20) ______________________ (he/go) to the party?

B : Use the words in brackets (     ) to complete each of the following questions. Example:   Why (you/move) did you move to England?

(you/speak) _______________________ to Angela last week?

What year (Columbus/discover) _______________________America?

Why (you/not/come) _______________________ to my birthday party?

What year (Elvis/die) _______________________? Was it 1977 or 1978?

How much (you/pay) _______________________ for your CD player?

When (you/play/last) _______________________squash with Jim?

Which hotel (you/stay) ___________________ in when you were in London?

C : There is a mistake in every sentence. Find it and write the sentence right.

1. I didn't celebrated New Year's Eve yesterday.

______________________________________________2.My friends organize a fancy dress party last night.

 

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3.but they didn't invited me.

___________________________________________________________4.So, I were very sad and lonely.

___________________________________________________________5.My best friends didn't were with me.

___________________________________________________________6.My cousin visite me in the afternoon.

___________________________________________________________7.but then she go to a party.

8.Did you danced on New Year's Eve?

___________________________________________________________9. I didn't watched TV because there was a horrible programme.

___________________________________________________________10. Everybody laughed and sing and was very happy.

___________________________________________________________11. But I were not happy, I didn't have a good time.

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D : Rewrite these sentences into the past simple (affirmative,

negative and question).

Example:

- I go shopping to buy some clothes.

- Yesterday, I went shopping to buy some clothes.

- Yesterday, I didn’t go shopping to buy some

clothes.

- Did you go shopping to buy some clothes yesterday? No, I didn’t

1.I see some stars in the sky.

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2. This girl is very tall and beautiful.

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3. My friend sends me a letter.

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4. They go to the cinema and they watch a film.

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