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Practice your Knowledge about the past simple

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Test 1

Test 2

Test 3

Practice with the past simple tense and Irregular verbs.

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Irregular verbs

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

The Past Simple Tense

The simple past expresses an action in the past taking place once, never, several times. It can also be used for actions taking place one after another or in the middle of another action.

• Form of Simple Past

- Positive : I Spoke
- Negative: I didn't Speak
- Question: Did I speak?
no differences I spoke. I did not speak. Did I speak?

• For irregular verbs, use the past form (see list of irregular verbs). For regular verbs, just add “ed”.

- Exceptions in Spelling when Adding ‘ed’
- Exceptions in spelling when adding ed. Example: after a final e only add d love – loved
- Final consonant after a short, stressed vowel or l as final consonant after a vowel is doubled admit – admitted travel – travelled
- final y after a consonant becomes i hurry – hurried

Use of Simple Past
• Action in the past taking place once, never or several times
Example: He visited his parents every weekend.
• Actions in the past taking place one after the other
Example: He came in, took off his coat and sat down.
• Action in the past taking place in the middle of another action
Example: When I was having breakfast, the phone suddenly rang.
• If sentences type II (If I talked, …)
Example: If I had a lot of money, I would share it with you.

The simple past forming the negative

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The simple past

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Interrogative form past simple regular verbs

Interrogative Past Simple regular verbs

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The past simple tense regular verbs negative

Past Simple regular verbs Negative

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Past Simple regular verbs Affirmative

This is the first post in the blog, I post this one because I'm going to start teaching the past simple tense of the regular verbs. Students can click on the right corner to see the document bigger. They can print the document and do a revision.

Past Simple regular verbs Affirmative

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