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Unit 2 - Lesson 1

The document provides an overview of past simple tense grammar including: 1) It introduces the forms of regular and irregular verbs in the past simple, such as "wanted" and "bought". 2) It explains how to form affirmative, negative, and question sentences using the past simple, including with the verb "to be". 3) Examples are given of using time expressions like "yesterday", "last week", and "in 2000" with the past simple to talk about completed past actions.

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Unit 2 - Lesson 1

The document provides an overview of past simple tense grammar including: 1) It introduces the forms of regular and irregular verbs in the past simple, such as "wanted" and "bought". 2) It explains how to form affirmative, negative, and question sentences using the past simple, including with the verb "to be". 3) Examples are given of using time expressions like "yesterday", "last week", and "in 2000" with the past simple to talk about completed past actions.

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PRE-INTERMEDIATE
Unit 2
Amazing… or crazy?
Contents
× Lesson 1 -He was 89 years old.
× Past simple affirmative (R)
× Past simple negative (R)
× Past simple questions (R)
× Lesson 2 -He was swimming when …
× Past continuous vs. past simple
× Lesson 3 -Why was she wearing a mask?
× Past continuous vs. past simple: questions
× Focus on:
× come
× Everyday English -Telling stories
× we don´t say… we say… 2
be past simple

+ I was happy. / We were sad.


- She wasn’t (was not) there. / They weren’t (were not)
tired.
? Were you happy? Yes, we were. / No, we weren’t. Was it
good? Yes, it was. / No, it wasn’t.
- Remember that you is singular and plural:
- Were you happy? (one person) – Yes, I was.
- Were you angry? (more than one person) – No, we
weren’t

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Past simple

- We use the past simple to talk


about actions that began and
ended in the past:
- Fauja Singh began running
because he didn’t want to
sit at home all day.

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- It is often used with past time expressions. Notice - We put these past time expressions at
that you can use ago, last, yesterday in many the beginning or at the end of the
expressions: sentence:
- last night / last week / last Monday / last - I bought some new tennis shoes
month / yesterday.
- last year / last Christmas - Did you go running last night?
- an hour ago / five days ago / a week ago / a - This morning, I went for a run at 6
month ago a.m.
- the day before yesterday
- yesterday / yesterday morning / yesterday
afternoon / yesterday evening
- this morning
- at night / at three o’clock
- in 2000 / in March
- on Monday / on Tuesday / on the weekend
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Regular verbs
+ I / You / He / She / It / We / They wanted to run.
- I / You / He / She / It / We / They didn’t (did not) move to
the US.
? Did I / you / he / she / it / we / they walk there?
Yes, I / you / he / she / it / we / they did.
No, I / you / he / she / it / we / they didn’t (did not).

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Irregular verbs
- There are no specific rules for the way we form the past simple affirmative of
irregular verbs. Here are some examples:
- break, broke; wake, woke; buy, bought; catch, caught; think, thought

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Past simple affirmative

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Past simple questions
- For wh- questions, we use:
- question word + did + subject + verb
- What did he do? Who did he call?
- For questions with be, we use:
- question word + be
- How old was he?
- Where were you last night?

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