PAST TENSE

                     
Colombus discovered America in 1492        The man arrived to the moon in 1969

           
                                                    
                          Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was an Austrian musician and composer.
                          He lived from 1756  to 1791. He started composing at the age of five
                        and wrote more than 600 pieces of music. He was only 35 years old when
                        he died.

Very often the past simple ends in ED (regular verbs)

Example:  I work in a travel agency now. Before that I worked in a shop.

                 We invited them to the party, but they decided not to come


Some verbs double consonant when they end in vowel + consonant.

Example:     Stop   -    stopped                  plan    -   planned        

                   prefer  -      preferred               Regret - regretted

The verbs end in L have LL before ED

 Example:    travel   -     travelled                                  cancel    -   cancelled

The verbs end in a consonant + Y, changes  Y  for I and add ed

Exapmle:                study  -    studied                            carry  -  carried

But many verbs are irregular. The past does not end in ED. Example

Be (am, is, are )                         Was -  were
Write                                          Wrote
Forget                                         Forgot
See                                             Saw
Go                                              Went

In questions and negative we use did -  didn`t + infinitive

Affirmative	Negative	Interrogative
You enjoyed the movie	You didn`t enjoy the movie	Did you enjoy the movie? Yes .I did    No, I didn`t
They ate hamburgers	They didn`t eat hamburgers	Did they eat hamburger? Yes, they did.   No they didn`t
She went to the park	She didn`t go to the park	Did she go to the park? Yes, she did No she didn`t

              
    ACTIVITIES

1.Put one of these verbs in each sentences. Use the past tense

  

                         Win                 buy              spend                    Cost                  drink            

                      teach                Catch               sell               win           write        play                     

1. .    Mozart ________ more than 600 pieces of de music
2. .    How did you learn to drive? My father __________ me.
3. .    I was very thirsty .I _______ the water very quickly.
4. .    Paul and I ________ tennis yesterday. He is much better than me, so he ________easily.
5. .    Ann ________ a lot of money yesterday. She ________ a dress of 300.000 pesos

2. Complete the sentences put the verb into the correct form, positive or negative.

1. .    The film wasn´t very good, I _____ it very much (enjoy).                                
2. .     I was very tired, so I ______ to bed early. (go).
3. .    Sue wasn´t hungry, so she ________ anything (eat).
4. .  We went to Kate’s house but she _________ at home (be).
5. .    The hotel wasn´t very expensive. It _____ very much (cost).

3. Underline the verbs and write in past tense the following text.

Melissa Greene works as a journalist for News channel 7and she is very busy. She starts her day early in the morning. She appears on good morning Chattanooga every weekday from 5:30 to 7:00 am. She presents the news and gives information about the weather, the traffic, etc.

Taken from English gramma in use.

http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-simple-past.php

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