Sandra Acevedo Liliana Ayala Jefferson Garcia

Agenda
Grammar and examples: Regular Verb Irregular Verb To Be Form
Song and Activity

Simple Past Tense

We use the past simple to talk about completed actions or situations in the past:

Grammar Regular Verbs

For regular verbs, we usually form the past simple by adding ed, however: For verbs that end in e, we add d.
For example:
Love Loved

Grammar Regular Verbs

For two syllable verbs that end in y, change the y to ied:
For example: Study Studied

Grammar Regular Verbs

For short verbs that end in one vowel + one consonant, we double the consonant:
For example: Stop Stopped

To form the negative

Subject Auxiliary Did Not
Infinitive Verb Without to

Didnt

To form the questions

Auxiliary Did Subject
Infinitive Verb Without to
Complement

Exceptions to the rule

Irregular Verbs:
This is a little list of some irregular verbs in English.. Of course, there are many others, but these are the more common irregular verbs.

Base Form awake be beat become begin bend bet bid bite

Past Simple awoke was, were beat became began bent bet bid bit

Past Participle awoken been beaten become begun bent bet bid bitten

blow
break bring

blew
broke bought

blown
broken brought

Verb To Be:
To be Statements + I was. He was. She was. It was. You were. We were. They were. To be Statements I wasn't. He wasn't. She wasn't. It wasn't. You weren't. We weren't. They weren't. Questions ? Was I? Was he? Was she? Was it? Were you? Were we? Were they?

Song and activity:

Adele - Set Fire To The Rain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri7-vnrJD3k