Students will reinforce the information about past simple.

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EXPLANATION

Introducción

Past simple, también llamado simple past o past tense, es el pasado en inglés. Sirve para expresar acciones pasadas, tanto cercanas en el tiempo como lejanas. No es relevante la duración de la acción en sí, sino si la acción se ha completado o no. Se forma con el pasado regular o irregular del verbo principal y el verbo auxiliar do. Equivale en español al pretérito indefinido y al pretérito imperfecto.

En este apartado aprenderás a reconocer las situaciones en las que se emplea este tiempo en inglés para hablar del pasado y las reglas de conjugación para oraciones afirmativa, negativas e interrogativas. En la sección de ejercicios puedes practicar y poner a prueba tus conocimientos.

EXAMPLE

Last month a girl from China joined our class. She came in, introduced herself, and began to talk about her country. She showed us where she was from on a map. While she was talking about her hometown, the school bell suddenly rang.

l past simple se emplea en inglés para expresar:

Acciones pasadas;
Last month a girl from China joined our class.

She showed us where she was from on a map.

Una sucesión de acciones en el pasado;
She came in, introduced herself, and began to talk about her country.

Retrieved: from: https://english.lingolia.com/es/gramatica/tiempos-verbales/simple-past

Past Simple

The Past Simple tense is sometimes called the "preterite tense". We can use several tenses and forms to talk about the past, but the Past Simple tense is the one we use most often.

In this lesson we look at the structure and use of the Past Simple tense, followed by a quiz to check your understanding.

How do we make the Past Simple tense?

There are two basic structures for the Past Simple tense:

From the above table, notice the following points...

For positive sentences:

• There is no auxiliary verb.
• The main verb is conjugated in the Past Simple, invariable: -ed (or irregular)

For negative and question sentences:

• The auxiliary is conjugated in the Past Simple, invariable: did
• The main verb is invariable in base form: base
• For negative sentences, we insert not between the auxiliary verb and main verb.
• For question sentences, we exchange the subject and the auxiliary verb.

From the above table, notice the following points...

• There is no auxiliary verb, even for questions and negatives.
• The main verb (be) is conjugated in the Past Simple: was, were
• For negative sentences, we insert not after the main verb.
• For question sentences, we exchange the subject and the main verb.

How do we use the Past Simple tense?

We use the Past Simple tense to talk about an action or a situation - an event - in the past. The event can be short or long.

Here are some short events with the Past Simple:

Notice that it does not matter how long ago the event is: it can be a few minutes or seconds in the past, or millions of years in the past. Also it does not matter how long the event is. It can be a few milliseconds (car explosion) or millions of years (Jurassic period). We use the Past Simple tense when:

• the event is in the past
• the event is completely finished
• we say (or understand) the time and/or place of the event

Here are some more examples:

• I lived in that house when I was young.
• He didn't like the movie.
• What did you eat for dinner?
• John drove to London on Monday.
• Mary did not go to work yesterday.
• Did you play tennis last week?
• I was at work yesterday.
• We were not late (for the train).
• Were you angry?

Note that when we tell a story, we usually use the Past Simple. We may start with the Past Continuous tense to "set the scene", but we almost always use the Past Simple tense for the action. Look at this example of the beginning of a story:

"The wind was howling around the hotel and the rain was pouring down. It was cold. The door opened and James Bond entered. He took off his coat, which was very wet, and ordered a drink at the bar. He sat down in the corner of the lounge and quietly drank his..."

Retrieved from: https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verb-tenses_past.htm

Read carefully and solve the exercise

Past Simple Form

• 1.Make the past simple, positive, negative or question:

EXAMPLE:

ROBERT AND RICHARD _____________ (NOT WORK) LAST WEEK

ROBERT AND RICHARD DID NOT WORK LAS WEEK

1. I _________________ (not / drink) any beer last night.

2. She _________________ (get on) the bus in the centre of the city.

3. What time _________________ (he / get up) yesterday?

4. Where _________________ (you / get off) the train?

5. I _________________ (not / change) trains at Victoria.

6. We _________________ (wake up) very late.

7. What _________________ (he / give) his mother for Christmas?

8. I _________________ (receive) £300 when my uncle _________________ (die).

9. We _________________ (not / use) the computer last night.

10. _________________ (she / make) good coffee?

2.Write the correct past tense for each of the following verbs

Ex. catch – caught

1. cut
2. dig
3. cost
4. meet
5. read
6. ride
7. run
8. see
9. sell
10. send

3. Unscramble the following words. Then write the present tense of each verb beside the past irregular verb.

Scrambled word	Unscrambled Verb	Present Tense
Ex. etnw	went	go
1. meca
2. gunbe
3. dema
4. lbew
5. okbre
6. hocse
7. idd
8. krdan
9. tae
10. voedr

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