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3º ESO. Past simple-explanation
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Grammar "bites":Past simple
Past simple.Meanings
What is the past simple?
It is a. verbal tense
Past simple.Meanings
Past simple
Meanings
Form
Adverbials
Past simple.Meanings
What do we express with the past simple?
Meaning 1
Meaning 2
Meaning 3
What do we express with the past simple?
Past simple.Meanings
PAST TIME
(Meaning 1)Finished action in the past. For example:
What do we express with the past simple?
Past simple.Meanings
PAST TIME
(Meaning 2) Habitual actions in the past. For example:
What do we express with the past simple?
Past simple.Meanings
PAST TIME
(Meaning 3) Successive past actionsFor example:
Summary of meanings:
Past time
Finished past actions Successive past actions
Past habits (with frequency adverbs)
FORM:
- Past simple -
AFFIRMATIVE (+) I/YOU/WE/THEY STUDIED HE/SHE/ IT STUDIED
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NEGATIVE (-)
You did not study / You didn't study
She did not study / She didn´t study
INTERROGATIVE (?)
Did you study...? Did she study?
ADVERBIALS AND TIME EXPRESSIONS
- Yesterday, the day before yesterday...
- Last week/month/year
- 5 minutes/an hour/a week/ a month...AGO
- In 2003, back then, then...
- WHEN + subordinate clause
Mindmap
Did / didn´t
Regular verbs: -d / -ed ending
Adverbials
Form
Irregular verbs
Past simple
Finished actions in the past
Yesterday Last week/month/year Five minutes ago... Then, back then, in 1985 When...
Habitual actions in the past
Past time
Successive past actions
Meaning
A past period of time
Teacher's summary
Resources to study irregular verbs:
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