Session 1:
Past Simple + Past Continuous
Simple Past
Regular Verbs:
• Work – Worked
• Arrive- Arrived
• Study – Studied
• Play - Played
Regular Verbs:
If the verb ends in a consonant Work – Worked
Add –ed Listen – Listened
Start – Started
If the verb ends in a vowel Arrive- Arrived
Add only –d Love – Loved
Like – Liked
If the verb ends in a consonant + y Study – Studied
Change the y to i and add ed Try – Tried
Marry – Married
Irregular verbs:
The infinitive The simple past
be was/were
write wrote
come came
do did
meet met
speak spoke
Check the list of Irregular verbs
The Affirmative form of the simple past:
Played
I, you, he, she, it, we, they Wrote
Did
•I played tennis with my friends yesterday.
•I finished lunch and I did my homework
The interrogative form of the simple past:
play?
Did I, you, he, she, it, we, they Write?
do?
Did you play basketball yesterday?
Did you watch television?
Did you do the homework?
The negative form of the simple past:
play
I, you, he, she, it, we, they did not/didn't write
do
I didn't like the food served at the wedding party last Saturday.
The use of the simple past
• Finished events in the past.
Ex:
• Christoph Columbus discovered America in 1492.
• I visited them every day for a year.
Change the verbs below into the past simple and put
them into the correct place in the sentences
Pay :: Phone :: Think :: Drink :: See :: Eat :: Go :: Take :: Leave :: Play
1. I _________________ that he was fired.
2. My mum _________________ me last night but I wasn’t at home to take her answer.
3. I _________________ to the zoo with my son last weekend.
4. I _________________ four cakes for lunch. I feel sick!
5. He _________________ him to see the doctor because he had been ill for so long.
6. I _________________ that new movie last night. It was great!
7. He _________________ his son alone all day!
8. I _________________ two bottle of grape juice last night. I don’t feel too well today.
9. The children __________ on the computer yesterday
10. It was too expensive and we _________________ too much for it.
Pay :: Phone :: Think :: Drink :: See :: Eat :: Go :: Take :: Leave :: play::
1. I ______thought___________ that he was fired.
2. My mum ______ phoned ___________ me last night but I wasn’t at home to take her
answer.
3. I __________went______ to the zoo with my son last weekend.
4. I __________ate_______ four cakes for lunch. I feel sick!
5. He ________took_________ him to see the doctor because he had been ill for so long.
6. I _________saw________ that new movie last night. It was great!
7. He _________left________ his son alone all day!
8. I __________drank_______ two bottle of grape juice last night. I don’t feel too well
today.
9. The children _____played_____ on the computer yesterday
10. It was too expensive and we _____paid____________ too much for it.
Past Continuous / Progressive
Rule
Jim and Liza were playing tennis yesterday at 11:00.
to be
in the simple past + verb + ing
( was – were)
Rule
The Affirmative form
I, he, she, it was playing.
you, we, they were
Yesterday evening I was watching a film, when someone knocked on the door.
This morning I was revising my lessons when my father came in.
Jim and Liza were playing tennis yesterday at 11:00.
The interrogative form
Was I, he, she, it Playing?
were you, we, they
What were you doing yesterday evening?
The negative form:
I, he, she, it was not / wasn't playing.
you, we, they were not / weren't
I wasn't reading a book yesterday evening; I was watching a film.
Uses of the past continuous
We use the past continuous to refer to an action that was continuous (i.e. an action that
was going on) at a particular time in the past.
"This time yesterday, I was doing my homework."
Uses of the past continuous
We use the past continuous to say that something happened in the middle of
something else
• Bob burnt his hand when he was cooking dinner yesterday
• Yesterday evening I was watching a film, when someone knocked on the door.
Yesterday at 6 pm your family were doing different things.
Write positive sentences in past progressive(continuous).
• My mother / read / a novel.
• My father / watch / TV.
• My elder sister / write / in her diary.
• My two brothers / listen / to the radio.
• My little sister and I / talk / about school.
• My mother / read / a novel. My mother was reading a novel.
• My father / watch / TV. My father was watching a movie.
• My elder sister / writing / in her diary. My elder sister was writing in her diary.
• My two brothers / listen / to the radio. My two brothers were listening to the radio.
• My little sister and I / talk / about school. My little sister and I were talking about school
Put the verbs into the correct form (past
progressive or simple past).
• When I (phone) my friends, they (play) monopoly.
• I (practice) the guitar when he (come) home.
• I (arrive) while They (play) cards.
• When I phoned my friends, they were playing monopoly.
• I was practicing the guitar when he came home.
• I arrived while They were playing cards.
