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COMMON CORE

Teacher: HASSAN KHEDDA

Unit- 7: The Arts

Grammar:

Simple past: Verb To Be

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What is Simple Past?

Simple past is a tense that we use to talk about things that started and finished in the past.

Simple past

Present

Future

Examples:

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Trump was a president.

X

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Examples:

Past

Present

Ibn Kiran was a president in 2015.

X

Akhnnouch is the president now.

X

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Elbastaoui was an actor.

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Ibn Kiran and El Othmani were presidents.

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Tuesday, April 19th, 2022

Unit: 7

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Grammar

The Simple Past: Verb to be

We use Simple past to talk about things that started and finished in the past.

Use

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Affirmative

Negative

Interrogative

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I

He

She

It

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We

You

They

​

I

He

She

It

​

We

You

They

I

He

Was She

It

​

​

We

Were You

They

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was happy yesterday.

were happy yesterday.

was not happy yesterday.

were not happy yesterday.

happy yesterday?

happy yesterday?

Contractions:

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Was not = wasn’t

Were not = weren’t

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COMMON CORE

Teacher: HASSAN KHEDDA

Unit- 7: The Arts

Grammar:

Simple past: regular and Irregular verbs

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Unit: 7

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Grammar

The Simple past: regular and Irregular verbs

Rule:

Affirmative: Subject + verb + ed

Negative: Subject + did not + verb (infinitive)

Interrogative: Did+ subject + verb+?

Examples:

  • John played football yesterday.
  • John did not play football yesterday.
  • Did John play football yesterday?

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Tuesday, April 19th, 2022

Unit: 7

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Grammar

The Simple past: regular and Irregular verbs

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I

He

She

It

worked yesterday.

We

You

They

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I

He

She

It

did not work yesterday.

We

You

They

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I

he

Did she

it

work yesterday?

we

Did you

they

Time Expressions:

        • Last month
        • Last week
        • Yesterday
        • In 2005

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Spelling Rules:

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Irregular verbs

Examples:

  • Sarah made a Tajine last night.
  • Sarah did not make a Tajine last night.
  • Did Sarah make a Tajine last night?

irregular verb

simple past tense

  • Have
  • Give
  • Speak
  • Read
  • Do
  • Write
  • Swim
  • Make
  • Eat
  • Had
  • Gave
  • Spoke
  • Read
  • Did
  • Wrote
  • Swam
  • Made
  • Ate

WH-questions with Simple past

  • When was Sarah born?
  • Where did Sarah go last night?.
  • What was your favorite teacher?

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Exercise 1:

Put the verbs into the correct form (simple past).

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1. Last year, I (go)_____________  to Italy.

2. It (be)_______________  great.

3. I (travel)___________  around by car with two friends and we (visit)______________  lots of interesting places.

4. In the morning, we (visit)_______________ our family.

5. Last night, we (learn)____________ some English words.

6. We (be)_______________  very lucky with the weather.

7. It (not / rain)______________________  a lot.

8. We (see)__________________  some beautiful rainbows.

9. Where (go / you)________________  last holiday?