Read this paragraph, notice the coloured words, try to guess the

meaning
man and his son were going to the market. While they were walking, a country man passed and
said, “You fool, what a donkey for but to ride upon?”
So the man put the boy on the donkey. But soon, some passersby said, “See that lazy, young
steer. He lets his father walk while he rides.”
So the man ordered his boy to get off and got on himself, but the passerby said, “Shame on… that
lazy old man, he lets his poor son walk, while he rides.”
The man did A not know what to do. Last, he took his boy on the donkey. Then the passerby said,
“Aren’t you ashamed of yourself for overloading the poor donkey?”
The man and the boy got off. They cut down a pole, tied the donkey’s feet to it and raised the pole
to their shoulders. They arrived to a bridge when the donkey, getting one of its feet loose, kicked
all out and caused the boy to drop his end of the pole. In the struggle, the donkey fell over the
bridge and then it .drowned
● Can you see the colored words?
● Why are the words colored?
● Why are the colors different?
● The colored words are the verbs in simple past tense and past continuous
tense
● The word in blue are verbs in the simple past tense
● And the word in red are verbs in the past continuous tense
● In this meeting we are going to learn more about simple past tense in
narrative text.
● Let’s continue to the next slide to find out more exercise about simple past
tense.
 Thank You
Any questions?
 OUR EXERCISES 1
Write the correct form of the verb on the lines use the Simple Past Tense.
One day while a mouse deer (is) ….. walking in the forest, he (see) …. a big, black
snake sleeping under the tree. When he saw the snake, the mouse deer was
frightened. When he (want) ….. to run away from the snake, he suddenly (fall) ….. on
top of a tiger which was sleeping not far from the snake. The tiger (wake up) ….. and
(take) ….. hold of the mouse deer. He (tell) ….. the mouse deer that he was going to eat
him for lunch. ”Please don’t eat me now”, said the mouse deer. ”I have something
important to do”.
“Look,” (say) ….. the mouse deer. ”That is the king’s belt. He (ask) …. me to stay here and
watch it while he was away in the forest”. The tiger (look) ….. at the snake and said,
“That is a beautiful belt. I need a belt like that. Can I wear it?” He asked the mouse
deer.
”Oh, all right,” said the mouse deer. So he (pick) ….. up the snake and (wind) …… it
around the tiger. Then the snake woke up and saw the tiger. The snake (twist) ….. itself
tighter and tighter, until the tiger couldn’t breathe. The tiger asked the mouse deer to
help him. But the mouse deer (turn) ……. and (run) ……. away into the forest.