SIMPLE PAST TENSE

 PAST TENSE

OBJECTIVE

By the end of the lesson, students should be able to narrate past events.

WARM UP

Read the clues and complete the crossword.

1.      Date of the Twins Towers      attack

2.      Year of the Colombia    Independence

3.      Date of the Boyacá Battle

4.      This is the year that Armero disaster happened.

5.      Colombia won Argentina 5-0 in this year

6.      The Challenger disaster happened this year.

7.      He won the 2019 Tour de France

8.      This is the year when Colombus arrived to America.

9.      The separation of Panama occurred this year.

10. Chapecoense plane crashed

GRAMMAR

The simple past is a verb tense that is used to talk about things that happened or existed before now.  (El pasado simple es un tiempo verbal que es usado para hablar acerca de eventos o cosas que ocurrieron o existieron antes)

For regular verbs, add -ed to the root form of the verb (or just -d if the root form already ends in an e):

Play→Played Type→Typed Listen→Listened Push→Pushed Love→Loved

 

For irregular verbs, things get more complicated. The simple past tense of some irregular verbs looks exactly like the root form:

 

Put→Put Cut→Cut Set→Set Cost→Cost Hit→Hit

 

For other irregular verbs, including the verb to be, the simple past forms are more erratic:

 

See→Saw Build→Built Go→Went Do→Did Rise→Rose Am/Is/Are→Was/Were

 

 ACTIVITIES

Write a paragraph in past tense using the verbs

                          CLEAN           LISTEN        DO         WATCH         HAVE

Read the text and choose the correct answer for each one question.