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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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