Simple Past

Eventos Pasados y Futuros…. En Lengua Extranjera.
Unit 1
Events in the Past
“Simple Past ”
Elaboración:
L.E.L.I. Karim Juárez Cortés
Unit 1
“Events in the Past”
USE
 It is used to talk about events, which happened or finished in a certain time or stated
time in the past.
Examples:
I graduated in 2003 from the university.
We left the house at 9:00 am.
When I was kid I always watched my favorite cartoon “Pitufos”
The last night I went to the discotheque with my friends.
 When we talk about past actions we can use regular verbs and irregular verbs.
Examples:
He opened the window, because
the weather was hot.
I walked for many hours the last
weekend.
I played bingo with my family the
last Sunday.
REGULAR VERBS
Base
Form
Live
Work
Visit
Climb
PAST
Lived
Worked
Visited
Climbed
Past
Participle
Lived
Worked
Visited
Climbed
Translation
Vivir
Trabajar
Visitar
Escalar
Affirmative:
I moved to a new apartment the last month.
Negative:
I didn’t move to a new apartment the last month.
Interrogative:
Did you move to a new apartment the last month? Yes, I did / No, I
didn’t
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IRREGULAR VERBS
Base Form
PAST
Past
Participle
Eat
Ate
Eaten
Speak
Spoke
Spoken
Go
Went
Gone
Read
Read
Read
Buy
Bought
Bought
Understand Understood Understood
Translation
Comer
Hablar
Ir
Leer
Comprar
Entender
Examples:
I ate a delicious hamburger with French fries yesterday.
My boss spoke with me about the problem that happened
yesterday in the office.
Robert went to work at night to the hospital.
I read an interesting book about Mexican History last night.
Affirmative:
I forgot to pay the bills.
Negative:
I didn’t forget to pay the bills.
Interrogative:
Did you forget to pay the bills? Yes, I did / No, I didn’t
FORM
Affirmative
I walked …
You walked …
He walked …
She walked …
It walked …
We walked …
You walked …
They walked …
Negative
I didn’t walk …
You didn’t walk …
He didn’t walk …
She didn’t walk …
It didn’t walk …
We didn’t walk …
You didn’t walk …
They didn’t walk …
Interrogative
Did I walk …?
Did you walk …?
Did he walk …?
Did she walk …?
Did it walk …?
Did we walk …?
Did you walk …?
Did they walk …?
 We form the affirmative with the use of the verb in past. The verb
could be regular or irregular.
Regular Verb:
I returned from Cancun the last Friday. (Verbs that end in ED)
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Regular verbs - Spelling Rules
1) We add “D” to verbs ending in “E”
Live – Lived
Dance – Danced
Graduate – Graduated
2) We add “ED” to most of the verbs.
Walk - Walked
Work – Worked
Visit – Visited
Play – Played
3) Verbs that ending in a consonant + “Y” drop the letter “Y” and add “IED”
Marry - Married
Try – Tried
Dry - Dried
Hurry – Hurried
4) Verbs that ending in one stressed vowel between two consonants double the last
consonant and add “ED”
Stop – Stopped
Drop - Dropped
Tip – Tipped
Warp – Wrapped
Irregular Verb:
I went to the supermarket with my mother.
Robert: What did you do the last night?
Susan: I went to the new Tom Cruise film. I love it!
1) Did Robert go with Kathy to the cinema?
No, he didn’t
2) Did Susan love Tom Cruise?
Yes, she did.
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 In AFFIRMATIVE form we use the next structure.
+ verb in past + complement.
Examples:
She worked in the hospital last night
Enrique visited Spain in 1999.
Susana climbed the Mount Everest yesterday.
We worked in the hospital three years ago.
I played video games with my cousins.
I read a book two days ago.
I had long hair two months ago.
She forgot to speak with her mother.
We gave some flowers to the teacher.
They got up late yesterday!
 In NEGATIVE AND INTERROGATIVE form we are going to use the auxiliary DID in
the following structure.
FULL FORM: did not
SHORT FORM: didn’t
NEGATIVE:
I
+ DID
didn’t
+ not +
verb in the base form +
prepare
the
complement
food.
Examples:
The last Monday, Roberto and Susana didn’t listen to the news on the radio.
My parents and friends didn’t watch a good movie last night.
Three years ago, I didn’t learn how to prepare a delicious omelet.
The chef of the restaurant didn’t prepare an excellent dish for my wedding ceremony.
My little cousin didn’t play with her friends in the park.
I didn’t read a book two days ago.
I didn’t have long hair two months ago.
She didn’t forget to speak with her mother; because she needed to ask permission.
We didn’t give some flowers to the teacher, because she didn’t have enough money.
They didn’t get up late yesterday, because I had to stay on time at work.
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Personal
Pronoun
I / you / we
/ they
He/ she / it
Auxiliary
Didn’t
Didn’t
Verb
Complement
Verbs
Visit
Guadalajara last year.
Go
To the cinema last weekend.
Study
For final tests.
Forget
To wake up early.
Move=moved
Play = played
Study = studied
Like = liked
Eat = ate
Get up = got up
Forget = forgot
Carlos Fuentes a famous Mexican writer. He
published a lot of books, one of them was
“Return to Mexico: Journeys behind the Mask.
He talked in his book about Chiapas and the
rebels of that place.
Examples:
Affirmative :
He published a lot of books.
Negative:
He didn’t publish a lot of books.
Interrogative:
Did he publish a lot of books? Yes, he did / No, he didn’t
Affirmative:
He talked in his book about Chiapas and the rebels of that place.
Negative:
He didn’t talk in his book about Chiapas and the rebels of that place.
Interrogative:
Did he talk in his book about Chiapas and the rebels of that place? Yes, he did / No, he
didn’t
 In INTERROGATIVE form we use the following structure.
QUESTION: DID +
ANSWERS:

+
verb in the base form + complement
?
POSITIVE: Yes,
NEGATIVE: No,
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 + DID
 + DIDN’T
Examples:
Did you work yesterday at night? Yes, I did / No, I didn’t
Did your brother help you with the housework?
Did they wash the car?
Did you study nursing?
Did you and your family travel to Cancun the last summer vacations?
Did she sing in the graduation party? Yes, she did / No she didn’t
Did they make their activities? Yes, they did / No they didn’t
Did your mother grow up in Ixmiquilpan?
Did Charly understand the class in the morning?
Did your father go to the mall?
 Remember that we use WH- questions to get more information from the speakers,
moreover we form the sentences with the next structure:
Wh- Question
+ Auxiliary
What / Where/
when / Who/
How/ Which
Did
+ Personal
Pronoun
I/ you / we
/they
He / she / It
+Verb
Complement?
Live / Walk /
Watch / Write /
Like, etc….
To the school
In the park
Etc.
My, your, her,
his, etc.
QUESTIONS
What did you do yesterday?
Where did you work three years ago?
ANSWERS
I did my homework
I worked in a restaurant
Where did Anna dance the last Friday
night?
She danced in the discotheque.
She bought some flowers and balloons!.
What did she do in my birthday?
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NOTE: Recuerda que las palabras con WH las utilizamos para adquirir mas información del
hablante. Por otra parte utilizamos la palabra DID que es auxiliar para referirnos al pasado
y también podemos utilizarlo como verbo que significa hacer pero en pasado.
Time Expressions in the PAST: Remember: when we talk about past actions, we can use
time expressions such as: Yesterday ( ayer), Last Week ( la semana pasado ), Last
weekend ( el fin de semana pasado ), Last month ( el mes pasado ), Last year….
Etc. (El año pasado), 2 years ago. (Hace 2 años), 3 months ago (hace 3 meses), 4
hours ago (hace 4 horas), 5 days ago. (Hace 5 días) etc.
NOTE: El tiempo pasado lo utilizamos para hablar de acciones que ya se realizaron; Para
formar oraciones en su forma afirmativa utilizamos el verbo en tiempo pasado; Ejem: I
worked in the hospital yesterday ( ayer trabaje en el hospital ). En forma negativa
vamos a utilizar el auxiliar DID + NOT y el verbo en su forma básica, ejem: I did not
WORK in the hospital yesterday.
NOTE 2: Los verbos pueden ser regulares e irregulares. Los verbos regulares en tiempo
pasado terminan en ED. Favor de consultar la lista de verbos proporcionados.
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Pitufos: http://webs.ono.com/loqueveiamosdepeques/pitufos.html
Move_apartment: http://icessentialmix.blogspot.com/2008_08_01_archive.html
Hamburger and French fries: http://www.freevectors.org/catalog/vector-hamburger-and-french-fries.html
Mexican book: http://www.vibrante.com/index.php?cPath=44&main_page=index
Walk: http://www.freewebs.com/tharsite/
Dance: http://aracabarraca.blogspot.com/
Cancún: http://www.laprensaus.com/interna.php?cont=1783
Marry: http://clareactman22.blogspot.com/
Drop: http://mirror-in-bom1.gallery.hd.org/_c/natural-science/splash-of-single-drop-in-still-water-2AJHD.jpg.html?sessionVar=spider&sessionVarLocale=es
Supermarket: http://sieteysiete.blogspot.com/2009/09/supermarket.html
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