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Simple Past
The simple past tense
→ Meaning & Use
→ Form (structure)
→ Exercise

Meaning e Use
When do we use the Simple Past tense?
We use the Simple Past to express the idea that an action started and finished at a specific time in the past.
What are some common time expressions used with the past tense?

Examples:
I saw Maria yesterday.
Last Friday, the students took their spelling and vocabulary tests.
They got married two years ago.
How do we form the simple past tense . . .?

Simple Form Past Tense

walk walked
study studied
cry cried
live lived
She lived in the USA last year.
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Irregular verbs are verbs that . . .

…DON’T end with –ed
1) Some irregular verbs have a vowel change in the past tense:
Examples:
Simple Form Past Tense
become became
give gave
drive drove
forget forgot
John gave me the money.
2) Other irregular verbs have a different kind of change:
Simple Form Simple Past
teach taught
bring brought
Leave left
Hear heard
Buy bought
Celia bought a new computer last weekend.
3) And some irregular verbs don’t change at all . . .
Simple Form Simple Past
hit hit
put put
set set
The children set the table last night.
For negative sentences, USE

I went to work yesterday.

I didn’t go to work yesterday.
Exception = VERB BE!
The verb be is special.
Never use DID NOT or DIDN’T with the verb BE. Instead, just use:

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For Yes/No questions, USE

Did you go to work yesterday?

Did you come yesterday?
Exercícios
01. Mark the option in which all the verbs are written in the Simple Past.
a) put – drunk – ate – heard – taken
b) knew – brought – wanted – made – was
c) wrote – come – felt – had – flew
d) told – were – begun – gave – read
e) left – spent – slept – swum – traveled
Read the text below to answer the question 02.
My name is Patrick. I __________ on vacation to Brazil last Summer, and I __________ in a
five-star hotel front of the beach in Rio de Janeiro.
I went to Rio by plane and I __________ a month there. I __________ a lot of people and we
__________ a great time! I want to go back to Brazil as soon as possible.
02. Choose the option that completes the gaps in the text respectively.
a) traveled / stayed / spend / knew / had
b) traveled / were / spent / knew / did
c) went / stayed / spent / met / had
d) went / were / spend / met / did
e) were / went / stayed / knew / have
Read the text below to answer the question 03
The story of a blind girl
There was a blind girl who hated herself just because she was blind. She hated everyone, except
her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her. She said that if she could only see the world, she
would marry her boyfriend.
One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her and then she could see everything, including her
boyfriend. Her boyfriend asked her, “Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?”
The girl was shocked when she saw that her boyfriend was blind too, and refused to marry him. Her
boyfriend walked away in tears, and later wrote a letter to her saying: “Just take care of my eyes dear.”
Fonte: http://academictips.org/

03. The underlined verbs, in the text, are in the

a) Simple Past
b) Simple Present
c) Present Perfect
d) Present Continuous

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04. Which one from the verbs conveys a verb tense that is different from the others?
a) says
b) made
c) think
d) runs
e) needs
Read the text below to answer the question 05.
A long time ago, people ______________ a way to create a nice smell. They put nice-smelling
wood or leaves into a fire. A nice smell __________ through the smoke. That is how we got the word
perfume. In Latin “per” means “through”, and “fumus” means “smoke”.
[…]
05. The correct verbs to fill in the blanks are, respectively
a) find / comes
b) found / came
c) has found / came
d) had found / comes
Gabarito
01 - B
02 - A
03 - A
04 - B
05 - B

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