7. Past Simple: regular verbs
General rule:
Infinitive: + ed
visit- visited
enjoy - enjoyed
Consonant + y: + ied study - studied
Ending in –e: + d love - loved
8. Past Simple: regular verbs
stop - stopped
One-syllable verb
one vowel + consonant:
double consonant + ed
Irregular verbs make the past form
in different ways.
14. Past Simple
1.
We use the past simple to express the
idea that an action started and finished
at a specific time in the past.
past now
specific time
yesterday
action
completed
21. Past Simple
2.
We also use the past simple to talk
about a situation that existed over a
period of time ( a duration) in the past.
past now
finished
action
started
26. Past Simple
3.
If you are talking about the general
past, or about regular or habitual
actions in the past, you also use the
past simple.
past now
finishedstarted
Regular action
35. Past Simple
Last year,
he went to England,
enrolled in a
language school
and started learning
English.
go/ enroll/start
36. Did you add
flour, pour in the
milk, and then
add the eggs?
Past Simple
add/ pour
37. We use the past simple to describe an
action in the past taking place in the
middle of another action.5.
Past Simple
continuing
past
action
interruption
disturbing
action
past now
38. We use the past simple to describe an
action in the past taking place in the
middle of another action.
Past Simple
interruptionpast now
Past
Continuous
Past
Simple