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Telling Past Experience

This document provides instruction on using simple past tense in English. It explains that simple past is used to talk about completed actions in the past, whether recent or distant. It covers forming regular and irregular past verbs, and the past forms of the verb "to be". Examples are given of affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences. Time expressions that can be used with simple past are listed. Students are assigned to share a past experience for a speaking assignment deadline.

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Telling Past Experience

This document provides instruction on using simple past tense in English. It explains that simple past is used to talk about completed actions in the past, whether recent or distant. It covers forming regular and irregular past verbs, and the past forms of the verb "to be". Examples are given of affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences. Time expressions that can be used with simple past are listed. Students are assigned to share a past experience for a speaking assignment deadline.

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Telling past experience

By Sitti Sahriana
When do we use simple past?

▪ We use Simple Past to talk about a completed action which started and
finished in a time before now. The simple past is the basic form of past tense
in English. The time of the action can be in the recent past or the distant
past and action is not important.

For example:
a. John Cabot sailed to America in 1498. (distant past)
b. He lived in Fiji in 1976. (distant past)
c. She went to Bali two months ago. (recent past)
d. we crossed the channel yesterday. (recent past)
Kinds of Verbs

▪ Remember regular and irregular verbs.


▪ Turn regular verbs to the past by adding –d, -ed, or –ied.
for example:

Regular verb Regular Past simple verb


decide decided
agree agreed
walk walked
want wanted
study studied
cry cried
Verbs continues….

▪ If the verb ends with y preceded by a vowel, add -ed.


▪ If the verb ends with y preceded by a consonant, drop the y, turn it into I
and add -ed.

Regular verb Regular past simple verb


play played
stay stayed
try tried
bury buried
Verbs continues…
▪ Irregular past verb forms must be learned because they don’t follow any
rules
For example

Irregular verb Irregular past simple verb


go went
see saw
come came
drink drank
cut cut
eat ate
Time markers for Simple Past

Last… …ago yesterday


Last night 10 minutes ago yesterday
Last Sunday (name of days) an hour ago Yesterday morning
Last week three days ago Yesterday afternoon
Last weekend a week ago Yesterday evening
Last year a month ago The day before yesterday
Last month a year ago
Forming the simple past
Patterns of simple past tense for regular verbs
Affirmative

subject Verb + -d/-ed/-ied complement


I watched the movie yesterday.
She played games last night.
They studied English an hour ago.

Negative

subject Did not (didn’t) Base form verb complement


I did not watch the movie yesterday.
She did not play games last night.
They did not study English an hour ago.
Forming continues….

Interrogative

Did subject Base form verb complement


Did you watch the movie yesterday?
Did she play Games last night?
Did they study English an hour ago?

Notice that the past form verbs change to base form verbs when Did is
used in Negative and Interrogative..
Forming…continues
Pattern of simple past for Irregular verbs
Affirmative

subject Irregular verbs complement


I went to the mall yesterday.
She ate pizza last night.
They drank the milk 10 minutes ago.

Negative

subject did not Base form verb complement


I did not go to the mall yesterday.
She did not eat Pizza last night.
They did not drink the milk 10 minutes ago.
Forming continues….

Interrogative

Did subject Base form verb complement


Did you go to the mall yesterday?
Did she eat Pizza last night?
Did they drink the milk 10 minutes ago?

Notice that the past form verbs change to base form verbs when Did is
used in Negative and Interrogative..
Simple past of BE

The past forms of BE are was and were.


Look at the subjects that come before the BE:

I was You were


She was They were
He was We were
Anita was Anita and John were
It was
Simple past of BE…. continues

For example:
Affirmative sentences

a. I was at work yesterday.

b. He was in the pool last week.

c. The moon was huge last night.

d. They were in Anita’s house two days ago.

e. You were in campus when I came to your house.


Simple past of BE…. continues

When you change all the affirmative sentences in the previous slide into
negative then the sentences will be:

a. I was not at work yesterday.

b. He was not in the pool last week.

c. The moon was not huge last night.

d. They were not in Anita’s house two days ago.

e. You were not in campus when I came to your house.


ASSIGNMENT

Share your past experience to me through a voice message on our WAG.


You may choose two of the topics below:
a. Happy experience
b. Sad experience
c. Funny experience
d. Embarassing experience
e. Strange experience
The deadline of the assignment is Monday, 20 April 2020, at 10 pm.
PREPARE FOR YOUR MIDTEST

STUDY:

1. IT’S ALL ABOUT ME


2. PROGRESSIVE ACTIVITIES
3. TELLING PAST EXPERIENCE

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