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2 Simple Past
2 Simple Past
2 Simple Past
Se utiliza para hablar de una acción que concluyó en un tiempo anterior al actual. La duración no es relevante. El
tiempo en que se sitúa la acción puede ser el pasado reciente o un pasado lejano.
Siempre se utiliza el "simple past" para referirse a cuándo ocurrió algo, de modo que va asociado a ciertas
expresiones temporales que indican:
un tiempo determinado: last week, when I was a child, yesterday, six weeks ago
She finished her work atseven o'clock
I went to the theatre last night
un tiempo indeterminado: the other day, ages ago, a long time ago
People lived in caves a long time ago.
She played the piano when she was a child.
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EJERCICIOS
1.- Translate these sentences using past simple: 2.- Write affirmative sentences using past simple:
3.- Write negative sentences using past simple: 4.- Write interrogative sentences using past simple:
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6.- Elige la mejor opción para cada oración:
- I break / broke a cup yesterday.
- Ann did not play / played tennis yesterday.
- Harry work / worked last Sunday.
- I didn’t know / knew.
- I didn’t feel / felt well last night.
- Ann come / came to see us at the weekend.
- I didn’t see / saw Bill at the party.
- Peter didn’t write / wrote to me for a long time.
- The train did not arrive / arrives on time.
- Mary didn’t like / likes / liked her teacher.
8.- En estas oraciones interrogativas, elige la mejor opción (ten cuidado, si el pronombre es sujeto
o complemento):
- Who gave / did give you that ring?
- What wanted John? / did John want?
- Who said / did say that?
- What made / did make that noise?
- Who asked / did she ask?
- Who told / did tell you?
- What fell / did fall out your bag?
- What put you / did you put in the shop?
9.- Haz preguntas para estas oraciones, usando el comienzo que te dan:
- ‘Somebody heard me’, Who ________________________________?
- ‘I heard somebody’, Who __________________________________?
- ‘I phoned somebody’, Who _________________________________?
- ‘Somebody wrote to me’, Who ______________________________?
- ‘Something broke the window’, What ____________________________?
- ‘I broke something’, What __________________________________?
- ‘Mary played something’, What ______________________________?
- ‘Something fell off the table’; What ______________________________?
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