Past Simple
&
Past Continuous
explanation
By:
Ereima, Selena, Pedro, Dayara and Julia
Past simple
IRRegular verbs
Regular verbs
regular verbs
-ed
The regular verbs are verbs whose past tense versions are formed by adding an -ed to the end.
Marry - Married Love - Loved Travel - Travelled Trouble - Troubled Type - Typed Use - Used Want - Wanted
Play - Played Hate - Hated Ask - Asked Taste - Tasted Dance - Danced Jump - Jumped Kick - Kicked
Admit - Admitted
Try - Tried
Live - Lived
IRregular verbs
The irregular verbs are verbs that do not follow the normal patterns for tense and past participle.
You have to memorize them :)
Do - Did Drink - Drank Drive - Drove Eat - Ate Fall - Fell Forget - Forgot Forgive - Forgave
Be - Was/Were Become - Became Begin - Began Break - Broke Burn - Burnt/Burned Catch - Caught Choose - Chose
Structure
They cooked pasta for dinner.
Subject + Verb (past simple) + Object
Affirmative
Subject + Did not + Verb (base form) + Object
They didn't cook pasta for dinner.
Negative
Did they cook pasta for dinner?
Did + Subject + Verb (base form) + Object
Interrogative
Uses
To explain habits of the past or repeated actions. ej: she played tennis twice a week.
To talk about a completed action in a time before now, an action that started and ended in the past.
With the following words: yesterday, last year, this evening, last month, in 2021, 5 years ago, etc.
Activity 1
Past continuoUs
-ing
Verb
Was Were
Become - Was/were becaming Begin - Was/were beginning Break - Was/were breaking Burn - Was/were burning Catch - Was/were catching Choose - Was/were choosing
Play - Was/were playing Hate - Was/were hating Ask - Was/were asking Dance - Was/were dancing Jump - Was/were Jumping Kick - Was/were kicking
It doesn't matter if the verb is regular or irregular!
Structure
She was studying maths.
Affirmative
Subject + Was/were + Verb -ing + Object
Subject + Was/were not + Verb -ing + Object
She wasn't studying maths.
Negative
Was she studying maths?
Was/Were + Subject + Verb -ing + Object
Interrogative
Uses
To show a past action that has been interrupted or just lasted for a while.
To explain habitual action that used to happen frecuently but no longer occurs.
We can use the past continuous for the background of a story: ej: The birds were singing, the sun was shining...
Activity 2
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