Review: Routine

• Tell your partner about your evening routine.

Review: Describe the person
• Use the information on your paper to describe
the person.
• Focus on subject verb agreement:
– (she studies / he likes)
Simple Past

• What is the simple past tense?

• When / why do we use it?
Simple Past: verbs

• Tell your partner what you

did last weekend. Your
partner must write down
all of the past tense verbs
he hears.
Simple Past: pronunciation
• Look at p. 27 – with a partner, try to put the
correct words in the correct columns.

/id/ /t/ /d/

Simple Past: Irregular Verbs
• What is different about irregular verbs?

• Look at p. 26 – choose 3 present tense verbs and

use them to ask past tense questions to your
partner. See if your partner can answer with the
correct past tense irregular verb.
• Ex: When did you become a VP?
– I became a VP in 2014.
Simple Past: Coin game
• Take a coin. Look at the year on the coin and tell
your partner something that happened in that year.