Mrs. Anabel Montes - English teacher

Past tense

•We make the past simple just like the present simple except we use 'did' instead of 'do / does'. It's really easy because 'did' doesn't change, even with 'he / she / it'.

Affirmative with Other Verbs

I walked (regular)

you played (regular)

he cooked (regular)

she listened (regular)

it rained (regular)

we ate (irregular)

they drank (irregular)

NegativeNegative Short Form

I did not walk I didn't walk

you did not play you didn't play

Questions

did I walk?

did you play?

Exercises Exercises

a. Make positive, negative and interrogative past simple sentences:

1) (he / go to school every day) .

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2) (I / like swimming) .

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3) (you / play badminton on Saturdays) .

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4) (the class / begin at 9 a.m.) .

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5) (they / sometimes go to the cinema) .

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6) (she / love chocolate) .

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7) (we / study French) .

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8) (they / live in London) .

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9) (he / work in a restaurant) .

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10) (Lucy / play the guitar) .

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11) (we / cook every day) .

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12) (he / clean the house at the weekends) .

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13) (I / like reading detective stories) .

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14) (you / come from France) .

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15) (John and David / often go to restaurants) .

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16) (Susie / study English every night) .

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17) (the train / leave at 6 p.m.) .

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18) (we / go to the park on Sundays) .

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19) (he / like taking photographs) .

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20) (the moon / go round the earth) .Aff:

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