U nit 5

Past Simple II
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Simple past tense
Simple present I dance every day.
Simple past I danced yesterday.
Simple present Flora walks home every day.
Simple past Flora walked home yesterday.

Past time words : yesterday, last, and ago

Yesterday Last Ago

Owen was angry... Shawn was at Gordon was sad...

home...

yesterday last night 2 minutes ago

yesterday morning last month 1 hour ago
yesterday afternoon last year 5 days ago
yesterday evening last spring a week ago
last Sunday a year ago
Rules of past simple verb form

Past Simple II
Rules Present verb + ed

A consonant + -e
smile smiled
 -d

One vowel + one consonant

 double stop stopped
the consonant + -ed

Two vowels + one consonant

rain rained
 + -ed

Two consonants
count counted
 + -ed

Consonant + -y
study studied
 change -y to -i + -ed

Vowel + -y
play played
 +ed
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Practice
Change the tense and fill in the blanks.

walk rain ask

1 It often in the morning. It yesterday.

2 I to school every morning.

I to school yesterday morning.

3 Joanna often questions.

She a question in class yesterday.

2
1
3
Use yesterday or last to complete each sentence.

Past Simple II
1 I dreamed about you night. 1
2 Mr. Moss played basketball with Luc .

3 Luc visited his grandmother fall.

4 Mrs. Moss washed the window morning.

2
5 Doris wasn't at home evening.

4
5
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verb

Change the verbs to the past tense. ed

1 count 6 touch

2 stop 7 jump
3 rain 8 knock
4 stay 9 fix

5 cook 10 care
Try More
Change the verbs to the past tense.

1 wash

2 move

3 pull

4 push

5 open

6 rush

7 practice

8 drop

9 cry

10 smile
Write sentences with the past tense form of the verbs.

Past Simple II
1 Luc climbs a tree.

2 Flora paints a picture.

3 Shawn helps his friend.

4 Joanna wants to make a milkshake.

5 Owen walks to the forest.

6 Gordon plays basketball with his friends.

7 Michelle washes her hands.

Read and underline the past tense form of the verbs.

Last Sunday, we had a party at

Flora's house. Gordon counted
20 people there. We laughed and
played games. It was great.
We danced together
and watched a movie.