Grammar- Focus on the Simple Past

You alwaya use the simple past when you say when something happened, so it is associated with certain past time expressions .

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The Simple Past is used to express the idea that an action started and finished at a specific time in the past. Sometimes, the speaker   may not actually mention the specific time, but they do have one specific time in mind.

He died in Italy two years ago. I didn't study much, therefore I failed the exam. Did your brother visit your mother at the hospital?  Were the children in the garden?

That students` tasks:

1- To be able to use the past-simple verb in different ways.

2- Rewriting the words in correct forms help to save a new words quicly. In the same time, make it easier to study the regular and irregular.

3- The students should also be able to choose the verbs correctly by filling the blanks in the exercise attached.

Now that you have been informed about the use of the simple past you should be able to answer the following tasks.

1) Put in the right form of the simple past.

1.Last year I (spend) my holiday in Ireland.

2.It (be) great.

3.I (travel) around by car with two friends and we (visit) lots of interesting places.

4.In the evenings we usually (go) to a pub.

5.One night we even (learn) some Irish dances.

6.We (be) very lucky with the weather.

7.It (not / rain) a lot.

8.But we (see) some beautiful rainbows.

9.Where (spend / you) your last holiday?

Answers :

1* Laast year I (spent) my holiday in Ireland *

2-*It (was) great*

3-*I (traveled)around by car with two friends and we (visited) lots of interesting places.*

4-*In the evenings we usually (went) to a pub.*

5-*One night we even (learned) some Irish dances.*

6-*We (were) very lucky with the weather. *

7-*.It (not rained) a lot.*

8-*But we (saw) some beautiful rainbows.*

9-*Where (you spent) your last holiday?*

2) In the following you will see a test. Try to remember everything you learned about the simple past.

Test

Write the past forms of the irregular verbs.

go → went

come → came

buy → bought

have → had

do → did

Complete the table in simple past.

positive	negative	question
Jane was tired.	Jane wasn`t tiered.	Was Jane tired?
Sean worked.	Sean did not work.	Did Sean work?
I have a cat.	I didn`t have a cat.	Did I have a cat?
Mary sang .	Mary did not sing.	Did Mary sing?
She saw us.	She Didn`t see us	Did she see us?

Put the sentences into simple past.

We open the door. → We opened the door

You write poems. → You wrote poems

Richard plays in the garden. → Richard played in the garden.

Kerry does not speak English. → Kerry dose not spoke English

Do you see the bird? → Do you saw the bird?

Write sentences in simple past.

you / cards / play

I / a car / want

we / the game / lose

not / I / early / get up

not / Jeff and Linda / home / cycle

Answers:

1- You played cards.

2- I wanted a car .

3-We lost the game.

4-I didn`t get up early.

5- Jeff and Linda didn`t cycle home.

3- Choose "Was“ or "Were“:

1. The teacher   was   nice.
2. The students   were  very clever.
3. But one student was    in trouble.
4. We were  sorry for him.
5. He was   nice though.

Simple past

The simple past or past simple, sometimes called the preterite, is the basic form of the past tense in Modern English. It is used principally to describe events in the past, although it also has some other uses. Regular English verbs form the simple past in -ed; however there are a few hundred irregular verbs with different forms.

The term "simple" is used to distinguish the syntactical construction whose basic form uses the plain past tense alone, from other past tense constructions which use auxiliaries in combination with participles, such as the past perfect and past progressive.