past simple

1.

2.

Warm Up Questions
1. Who cooked dinner for you last night?
2. What was the first movie you watched this year?
3. When was the last time you walked on the beach?
4. Have you travelled before?

3.

Simple Past Tense
We use the simple past tense to talk about things that
happened in the past.
Time words that we use include:
Yesterday
Last Week
Last month
… years ago

4. Warm Up Questions

Simple Past Tense
We use the grammar point:
Subject
+
Verb ( -ed )
+
For example:
• She visits Grandma.
She visited Grandma yesterday.
• My friend watches a movie.
My friend watched a movie last night.
• Tom plays football.
Tom played football last week.
Object

5. Simple Past Tense

Read the dialogue
Can you spot the simple past tense verbs?
They usually end in -ed
Hello, what
countries
have you
visited?
Spain is beautiful.
We walked
everywhere.
Oh no. We visited
some nice places
there.
We stayed
in a small
house.
Yes, we
loved our
trip.
Hey, I wanted
to travel to
Spain last
year.
It rained
everyday when
my friend went a
month ago.
Where did
you stay?
That’s great!
Was it
amazing?

6. Simple Past Tense

Match the words
Simple tense words:
Look
Listen
Live
Learn
Laugh
Past tense words:
Looked
Laughed
Reveal Answer
Lived
Learned
Listened

7. Read the dialogue

Change the verb to past
tense
• When the exam (start), I was ready. started
• Last year I (need) a new mobile phone. needed
• We (play) in the basketball team three years ago. played
• They (wash) their hands before they ate dinner. washed
• Mom (wait) for me for five hours. waited
• I (fix) the bicycle with my sister. fixed
• You (paint) your bedroom last week. painted
Reveal Answer

8. Match the words

Fill in the gaps
• She
opened
her diary from two years ago.
• They
enjoyed
their teacher from last year.
• It
so much last Christmas.
snowed
• The cats
followed their mother everywhere.
• The artist
painted
a beautiful picture yesterday.
• When we were children, we
snowed
on the bed.
painted
enjoyed
jumped
Reveal Answer
jumped
followed
opened

9.

Make the sentence past
tense
• The student closes the door behind him.
The student closed the door behind him.
• They love to get presents for their birthday.
They loved to get presents for their birthday.
• She turns left at the school.
She turned left at the school.
• It looks great!
It looked great!
Reveal Answer

10.

What happened?
Use the words given below to create a simple past sentence
+
shop
We shopped so much in Italy last month.
Reveal Answer

11.

What happened?
Use the words given below to create a simple past sentence
+
cook
Dad cooked a great dinner last night.
Reveal Answer

12.

What happened?
Use the words given below to create a simple past sentence
+
open
They opened the present yesterday.
Reveal Answer

13.

What happened?
Use the words given below to create a simple past sentence
+
ask
The student asked how to answer the question.
Reveal Answer

14.

What happened?
Use the words given below to create a simple past sentence
+
arrive
The box arrived last week.
Reveal Answer

15.

What happened?
Use the words given below to create a simple past sentence
+
move
The family moved to a new house ten years ago.
Reveal Answer

16.

Find the Ship!
Choose a verb then make a past tense sentence using that verb.
Try to capture as many ships as you can!
Stay
Live
Cook
Start
Help
Walk
Watch
Learn
Rain
Visit
Look
Decide
Wash
Finish
Listen
Need
Smell
Laugh
Clean
Paint
Wait
Fix
Close
Dance
Change
Remembe
r
Open
Move
Ask
Answer
Arrive
Shop
Count
Enjoy
Climb
Want

17.

Bonus Challenge!
Sometimes when we change verbs into past tense, we don’t simply add -ed.
We change them quite a lot!
They are called irregular verbs. See if you can change the following
irregular verbs into past tense.
Think
Get
Wake
Take
Win
Lose
Thought
Got
Woke
Took
Won
Lost
Do
Sell
Pay
See
Leave
Fly
Did
Sold
Paid
Saw
Left
Flew