SIMPLE

PAST
Welcome to class!
Ms. Paz
Table of Contents

01 03
SIMPLE PAST SIMPLE PAST
AFFIRMATIVE FORM QUESTIONS

02 04
SIMPLE PAST SIMPLE PAST
NEGATIVE FORM TIME
EXPRESSIONS
 01
Simple Past
Affirmative: Regular and Irregular verbs
AFFIRMATIVE

REGULAR VERBS IRREGULAR VERBS

Harry listened Mrs. Figg took him
to a jingle. for a cup of tea.
REGUALR VERBS: RULES
REGUALR VERBS: RULES
REGUALR VERBS: RULES
IRREGULAR VERBS
Check the Irrregular List in your student’s book, p. 119.
IRREGULAR VERB LIST (p.119)

INFINITIVE SIMPLE PAST PAST PARTICIPLE

EAT ATE EATEN
IRREGULAR VERB LIST (p.119)
IRREGULAR VERB LIST (p.119)
The most famous Irregular verb in English: “To Be or not To Be? – That’s a question!”

AFFIRMATIVE NEGATIVE QUESTIONS

To Be

WAS HE?
I / HE / SHE / IT WAS WASN’T WAS SHE?
WAS IT?

WERE YOU?
YOU / WE / THEY WERE WEREN’T WERE WE?
WERE THEY?
Let’s Practice!
 SENTENCES
1. Rewrite the sentences into Simple Past form

A. We study English. (yesterday) - We studied English yesterday.

B. He cooks dinner. (last night) -

C. I use the Internet at home. (last week) -

D. I go to the movies (last year) -

E. I see a beautiful film. (last Saturday) -

F. We eat pasta (last Sunday) -

 MY QUARANTINE
1. Complete the sentences with the verbs
in parenthesis in the Simple Past.

“It ______ (be) very strange to live in quarantine. One day, everything ______

(change). We ______ (be) working and studying normally, but, suddenly, we ______

(have) to lock ourselves at home. At first, I ______ (think) it ______ (be) going to end

soon. Then, two weeks later, I ______ (realize) it wasn’t going to be so easy, because

we still didn’t have any clue about how to get rid of this virus.

Eventually, we ______ (be) able to find the cure for Coronavirus and Brazilian

scientists ______ (save) the lives of many people around the world.”
2. Are the sentences right or wrong?
Correct the wrong ones.

RIGHT WRONG

1. He watched lives on
YouTube last weekend.

2. Two weeks ago, my family

and I was together for dinner.

3. My friends and I went to

Pirenopólis last summer.

4. They maked a delicious

cake yesterday.
 02
Simple Past
Negative Form
 DID NOT = DIDN’T

Analyze the
I didn’t work
sentences below:
last Sunday.

I worked a
lot yesterday.
NEGATIVE
FORM

NEGATIVE FORM:

SUBJECT + DIDN’T + VERB (Infinitive without to)

 Student’s book, p. 109.
Write the sentences in the negative form.

a. I got up late. I didn’t get up late.

b. I wore jeans.
c. I did the homework.
d. I played tennis.
e. I had lunch with my family.
f. I went shopping.
g. I bought a new smartphone.
h. I read the newspaper.
2. Are the sentences right or wrong?

RIGHT WRONG
Correct the wrong ones.

1. Joe wasn’t talked

to me last week.

2. I didn’t was at
home last night.

3. My friends and I
didn’t went to City
Park last Sunday.

4. She didn’t made a

delicious apple pie.
 02
Simple Past
Questions
Read and analyze the sentence below:

She worked a lot yesterday.

DID she work a lot yesterday?

Yes, No, she

she did. didn’t.
 Yes,
YES / NO QUESTIONS: ___ did.

DID+ SUBJECT+ VERB (Infinitive without to)?

No, ___
QUESTIONS IN THE PAST:

didn’t.

WH - QUESTIONS:

WH–QUESTION+ DID+ SUBJECT+ VERB (Infinitive without to)?

What did you do last week?

WHAT= object or activity
WHERE= place Where did you go?
WHO= people
When did you watch “La Casa del Papel?”
WHEN=time
HOW=in what way
 WH - QUESTIONS with To Be in the Past

WH–QUESTION+ WAS / WERE+ SUBJECT+ COMPLEMENT?

QUESTIONS IN THE PAST:

What WERE your favorite subjects at

WHAT= object or school?
activity;
WHERE= place Where WERE you yesterday?
WHO= people
When WAS your last birthday?
WHEN=time
HOW=in what way Who WAS your first teacher?
 Student’s book, p. 109.
Write the sentences in the interrogative form.

a. I got up late. Did you get up late yesterday?

b. I wore jeans.
c. I did the homework.
d. I played tennis.
e. I had lunch with my family.
f. I went shopping.
g. I bought a new smartphone.
h. I read the newspaper.
2. Are the sentences right or wrong?

RIGHT WRONG
Correct the wrong ones.

1. Did Joe talked to

you yesterday?

2. Did she chatted

online with her
friends last night?

3. Where they went

last year?

4. When did you

watch “The Hobbit”?
MOST COMMON TIME EXPRESSIONS:

AGO YESTERDAY

SIMPLE PAST

A WEEK AGO
THREE DAYS AGO
TWO MONTHS AGO
TEN YEARS AGO
A LONG TIME AGO
LAST WEEK
LAST MONTH
LAST LAST YEAR
LAST SUMMER
LAST _____