Primary Longman Elect 3 B Chapter 4 Simple

Primary Longman Elect 3 B Chapter 4 Simple past tense (1)

Simple past tense: regular verbs Last Sat Last Sun Mon / Yesterday Tue / Today 3 p. m. What did you do yesterday? I painted a picture.

Simple past tense: regular verbs Last Sat Last Sun Mon / Yesterday Tue / Today 9 p. m. What did you do last night? I studied for the English test.

Simple past tense: regular verbs Last Sat Last Sun Mon / Yesterday What did you do at the weekend? I chatted with my friends. Tue / Today

Simple past tense: regular verbs • We use the simple past tense to talk about actions in the past. e. g. I painted a picture yesterday. I studied for the English test last night. I chatted with my friends at the weekend. • We usually add ed to the action words. e. g. listened listen looked painted played

Simple past tense: regular verbs • We double the last letter when the action words are one syllable and end in 1 vowel + 1 consonant. e. g. chatted chat clapped skipped • We change the letter y into ied when the action words end in 1 consonant + y. e. g. dried dry tidied study studied

Key structure yesterday? What did you do last night? at the Don’t change the weekend? action words in did questions. This means yesterday night. Use the simple past tense when you see these words. I played games with my parents. This means last weekend.

Practice Choose the correct past tense ending. painted paintied

Practice Choose the correct past tense ending. studyed study studded studied

Practice Choose the correct past tense ending. tidyed tidied tidy tidied tidded

Practice Put the words in the correct order to make a question. do did What he What did he do yesterday?

Practice Put the words in the correct order to make a question. the at do weekend? What did she do at the weekend? she

Practice Give the correct answer. What did you do at the weekend? I painted a picture.

Practice Give the correct answer. What did you do yesterday? I chatted with my friend.

Practice Give the correct answer. What did you do yesterday? I tidied my room.

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