Read the next link and identify in clear way about the simple past.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moYDA4jbPy4

FUNCIONES DEL "SIMPLE PAST"

El "simple past" se utiliza para hablar de una acción que concluyó en un tiempo anterior al actual. La duración no es relevante. El tiempo en que se sitúa la acción puede ser el pasado reciente o un pasado lejano

EXAMPLES:

• John Cabot sailed to America in 1498.
• My father died last year.
• He lived in Fiji in 1976.
• We crossed the Channel yesterday.
• Siempre se utiliza el "simple past" para referirse a cuándo ocurrió algo, de modo que va asociado a ciertas expresiones temporales que indican:
• frecuencia: often, sometimes, always
  I sometimes walked home at lunchtime.
  I often brought my lunch to school.
• un tiempo determinado: last week, when I was a child, yesterday, six weeks ago
  We saw a good film last week.
  Yesterday, I arrived in Geneva.
  She finished her work atseven o'clock
  I went to the theatre last night
• un tiempo indeterminado: the other day, ages ago, a long time ago People lived in caves a long time ago.
  
• El término ago es útil para expresar distancia temporal en el pasado. Se coloca después del periodo de tiempo de que se trate: a week ago, three years ago, a minute ago.Cuidado: el "simple past" del inglés puede parecerse a un tiempo verbal de tu propio idioma y, sin embargo, su significado puede ser distinto.

Read and look the different expression with the simple paste tense.

FORMACIÓN DEL "SIMPLE PAST"

Afirmative
Sujeto	+ raíz + ed
I	skipped.
Negative
Sujeto	+ did not	+ infinitivo sin to
They	didn't	go.
Interrogative
Did	+ sujeto	+ infinitivo sin to
Did	she	arrive?
Interrogative negative
Did not	+ sujeto	+ infinitivo sin to
Didn't	you	play?

Afirmative	Negative	Interrogative
I walked	I didn't walk	Did I walk?
You walked	You didn't walk	Did you walk?
He walked	He didn't walk	Did he walk?
We walked	We didn't walk	Did we walk?
They walked	They didn't walk	Did they walk?

Listen the explanation about the simple past verbs in the next link and DO 10 EXAMPLES WITHE VERBS THAT YOU LIKE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLA58CSIf3M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLuNOWXw96c

Look at the pictures explanation and answer -complete them.

Read the text and aswer the questions about it

Wilbur Wright, 1867–1912; Orville Wright, 1871–1948

Over 100 years ago, people only dreamed about flying. The Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville, were dreamers who changed the world. Wilbur Wright was born in 1867 and Orville was born in 1871. In 1878, they received a paper flying toy from their father. They played with kites and started to think about the possibility of flight. When they were older, they started a bicycle business. They used the bicycle shop to design their airplanes. They studied three aspects of flying: lift, control, and power. In 1899, they constructed their first flying machine—a kite made of wood, wire, and cloth. It had no pilot. Because of wind, it was difficult to control. They continued to study aerodynamics.1 Finally Wilbur designed a small machine with a gasoline engine. Wilbur tried to fly the machine, but it crashed. They fixed it and flew it for the first time on December 17, 1903, with Orville as the pilot. The airplane remained in the air for twelve seconds. It traveled a distance of 120 feet. This historic flight changed the world. However, only four newspapers in the U.S. reported this historic moment. The Wright brothers offered their invention to the U.S. government, but the government rejected2 their offer at first. The government didn’t believe that these men invented a flying machine. Finally, President Theodore Roosevelt investigated their claims and offered the inventors a contract to build airplanes for the U.S. Army. December 17, 2003, marked 100 years of flight. There was a six-day cele bration at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the location of the first flight. A crowd of 35,000 people gathered to see a replica3 of the first plane fly. The cost to re-create the plane was $1.2 million. However, it rained hard that day and the plane failed to get off the ground. You can now see the Wright brothers’ original airplane in the Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

Read more about the Wright brothers.

Underline the past tense verbs in the following sentences.

The Wright brothers lived in Dayton, Ohio.

1. Their father worked as a Christian minister.

2. The boys learned mechanical things quickly.

3. They loved bicycles.

4. They opened the Wright Cycle Company repair shop, where they repaired bicycles.

5. They started to produce their own bicycle models.

6. The first airplane weighed over 600 pounds.

7. They succeeded in flying the first airplane in 1903.

8. Wilbur died nine years later, of typhoid.4

9. Orville lived to be 76 years old. E

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