PAST

SIMPLE
XPLORE 10

Unit 0.1. Checking My English

Teresa Pinto de Almeida Paula M. Arajo Telma

Coelho de Sousa

Last summer I had a marvellous

holiday in Bulgaria.
My family and I travelled to the
seaside.
We went to Sunny Beach and we
didnt regret it.

Teresa Pinto de Almeida Paula M. Arajo Telma

Last summer I had a marvellous

holiday
in Bulgaria.
My family
and I travelled to the
seaside.
We went to Sunny Beach and we
didnt regret it.

PAST SIMPLE
We use the Past Simple
tense
to
describe
completed actions and
states in the past.
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I had
My family and I
travelled
We
wewent
didnt
regret
REGULAR VERBS
IRREGULAR VERBS

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REGULAR VERBS
we
led
travel
I
ed

they stay
ed
ied
we try

visit

infinitive
without to

ed

Pay attention to spelling!

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IRREGULAR VERBS
I had

It was

We
went

She found

Have had
Be was
had
been
Go went
Find found
gone
found
The past form for irregular verbs
is variable. You need to learn it by
heart.

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Use the Past Simple!

were
My summer holidays
________ (be) great! My
travelled
family
and I ____________
(travel)
the _________ (discover) many
countryaround
anddiscovered
we
interestingstopped
places.
We _________ (stop) at
learnt
different cities,
towns and tiny villages. I
saw
visited
_________
(learn) a lot about Portugal!
We
ate
_________ (see) great landscapes
and _________
tried
(visit) lots of monuments.
We _________ (eat)
were food. We even
different kinds of traditional
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_________ (try) surfing at Nazar but all the

NEGATIVE FORM
We went to Sunny Beach and we
didnt regret it.

we didnt
regret

didnt
did not

infinitive
without to

We didnt go to France last summer.

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Rewrite the sentences in the negative fo

1. Kate travelled to France last summer.
Kate didnt travel to France last
summer.
2. Kate found an antique watch on the
beach.
Kate didnt find an antique watch
on the beach.
3. The Petersons holidays were spoiled.
The Petersons holidays werent
spoiled.
4.
Kate studied Bulgarian during the
Kate didnt study Bulgarian during
holidays.
the holidays.
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INTERROGATIVE FORM
Did Kate visit Tasmania last
summer?

Did Kate visit ?

Did

infinitive
without to

Did the Petersons travel by car?

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Build questions about the underlined wo

1. Kate visited the Marakoopa Caves
last summer.
When did Kate visit the
Marakoopa Caves?
2. She saw a platypus in the cave.
What did Kate see in the cave?
3. They found glow worms inside the
Where did they find glow worms?
cave.
4. Kates sister was very excited about
was very excited about the
the Who
worms.
worms?
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Further Practice!
Past Simple Regular
Verbs

Past Simple Irregular

Verbs

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