Simple past

SIMPLE PAST
1. Form
* To be:
(+) I, she, he, it was
you, we, they were
Eg: I was tired when they were here last night
(-) I, she, he, it was not (wasn’t)
you, we, they were not (weren’t)
Eg.: She wasn’t cried when she was 7 years old
(?) Was I, she, he, it Ved/ V2?
Were you, we, they Ved/V2?
Eg: Where was he yesterday?
* Verbs
(+) S + V-ed
She lived in Hanoi 2 years ago.
They wrote a novel last year
(-) S + did not (didn’t) + V
I didn’t go to Jim’s birthday party
(?) Did + S + V?
Did he stay there with them last summer?
When did you last see her?
Why didn’t you call me last night?
* Spelling of regular verbs
1. The normal rule: +ed
Eg.: work - worked,
start - started
2. If the verb ends in –e + d
Eg.: live - lived, hate - hated, love - loved
3. If the verb has only 01 syllable:
01 vowel + 01 consonant:
double the consonant
Eg.: stop – stopped, plan - planned
4. Verbs that end in a consonant + y → -ied
Eg.: study – studied, carry - carried

Exercise 1: Use Simple Past forms of the following verbs to make sentences:
Dance Work
Believe Check
Miss Jump
Paint Try
Print Look
Stop Listen
* Pronunciation of “-ed”
1. /id/
+ after “-t” : start – started /sta:tid/
+ after “-d”: need – needed /ni:did/
2. /d/
+ after voiced consonants:
love /lΛv/ - loved /lΛvd/,
beg /beg/ - begged /begd/
3. /t/ after voiceless consonants: s, sh, ch, x, k, p, …
walk /wa:lk/ - walked /wa:lkt/
jump /j Λmp/ - jumped / jΛmpt/

Signal Words
Yesterday
Yesterday morning
Last night
Last week
A month ago
In 2010
At 7 o’clock (in the past)
* The PS is used after: as if, as though, if only
2. Uses
a, a completed action in the past.
She had dinner at 9 pm.
* It is used to retell a story
I met her this morning at the gate of the university, then we had a talk about the time we were at the USA.
b, in “if-clause” of Conditional 2 Practice
Exercise 2: Opposite verbs
Match column A with B

* Exercise 3: Irregular Verbs
Infinitive ? Past Simple
1. go: ?.... 11. begin: ?....
2. come: ?.... 12. leave: ?....
3. buy: ?.... 13. lose: ?....
4. have: ?.... 14. see: ?....
5. do: ?.... 15. meet: ?....
6. sleep: ?.... 16. take: ?....
7. drink: ?.... 17. drive: ?....
8. write: ?.... 18. speak: ?....
9. let: ?.... 19. forget: ?....
10. make: ?.... 20. get: ?....