Grammar lesson: Simple past (Regular verbs)

1. SIMPLE PAST
REGULAR VERBS

2. TIMELINE
Past Present
Future
2014 2015 2016

3. USE
The Past Simple expresses a past
action that is now finished.
•We played football yesterday.
•I visited Paris in 2013.

4. USE
The Past Simple expresses a past
action that is now finished.
•We played football yesterday.
•I visited Paris in 2013.

5. SPELLING

6. •Add ‘ed’ to the verb:
•Start → started
•Finish → finished
•Verbs ending with ‘e’, add just ‘d’
•Arrive → arrived
•Survive → Survived

7. •Put the following verbs in the simple past:
Add either ‘d’ or ‘ed’.
•Accept → Accept
•Add → Add
•Admire → Admire
•Advise → Advise
•Afford → Afford
•Agree → Agree

8. •Put the following verbs in the simple past:
•Accept → Accepted
•Add → Added
•Admire → Admired
•Advise → Advised
•Afford → Afforded
•Agree → Agreed

9. •Verb ends in ‘y’, change ‘y’ to ‘i’ and add ‘ed’
•Cry → cried
•Study → studied
•One vowel verb, double the consonant
•Stop → stopped
•Beg → begged

10. •Put the following verbs in the simple past:
Grab →
Employ →
Plan →
Empty →
Copy →
Dry →

11. •Put the following verbs in the simple past:
Grab → Grabbed
Employ → Employed
Plan → Planned
Empty → Emptied
Copy → Copied
Dry → Dried

12. •Put the following verbs in the simple past:
Examine Examined
Travel
Rescue
Investigate
Deliver
Seat
Construct
Listen

13. FORM
Affirmative
I
finished
yesterday
He/She/It
We
You
They
Negative
I
He/She/I
t
We
You
They
didn’t
(did not) arrive
yesterday.

14. FORM
• Question
• The question in the Past Simple is formed with did.
I
arrive?
When did He/she/it
We
You
They