Leave the past behind (Simple Past Tense)

Introduction

                                               Simple Past Tense for grade 7 students

                                                           By: Camille Angelic Casas

We're often told we should put the past behind us, not dwell in the past, etc…However, students must do just that to learn the simple past tense.

The Simple Past Tense, often just called the Past Tense, is easy to use in English.If you already know how to use the Present Tense, then the Past Tense will be easy. In general, the Past Tense is used to talk about something that started and finished at a definite time in the past.

How to form the Past Tense?

FORMING THE SIMPLE PAST TENSE

The main rule is that for every verb in English, there is only one form of it in the past tense. 

(The exception is the Past tense of To Be, which has two forms: was and were)

For the negative and interrogative form of all verbs in the simple past, always use the auxiliary 'did''.

EXAMPLES

  • They weren't in Rio last summer.
  • We didn't have any money.
  • We didn't have time to visit the Eiffel Tower.
  • We didn't do our exercises this morning.
  • Were they in Iceland last January?
  • Did you have a bicycle when you were young?
  • Did you do much climbing in Switzerland?

Regular verbs use the verb's base form (scream, work) plus the -ed ending (screamed, worked). Irregular verbs alter their form in some other way (slept, drank, drove).

 

So you just have to learn one word to be able to use it in the past tense.

So here's a short video to explain further the simple past tense.  Just click it ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b4rsDuzThE

 

Task

Now for your task.

Make 2 essays about what you did on your Christmas vacation and on your summer vacation.

 Observe grammar in making your essay.

Process

Here are the following steps in doing your activity:

Your essays should consists of Introduction, Body and Conclusion.

Write it down on a short bond paper. 

 

Evaluation

Grammar structure- 50%

Quality of writing- 50%

 

 

 

Conclusion

So I hope you enjoy and learn about the simple past tense discussion :) Always remember that we use the past tense to talk about something that happened once in the past :) 

 

Thank You and God bless :)

Credits

Teacher Page

Name: Camille Angelic L. Casas born on May 14,1997 at Davao City. Student at Mindanao State University at Naawan, Misamis Oriental.