Past Simple / Irregular verbs. 5th grades. 13/04/2020

Unit 6 Sport

Past Simple / Irregular verbs

1) Copy and learn the rules

Past Simple

Usage

•           for actions which finished at a stated time in the past.

She went to school by bus yesterday. (When?Yesterday)

•           for actions that happened one after the other.

First he had breakfast and then he left for work.

•                  For  action in the past that took place once, never or several times

He visited his parents several times a  weekend ago

Time expressions

yesterday	last night / week / month / year
a week / month / year ago	two days ago
in 2003	then
this morning	when

Positive Statements

Subject + Main Verb + _________.

There are 2 kinds of main verbs that are used in the past simple tense:

  Regular Verbs  -ed to the end of the verb

Past Simple Tense
Subject	Base Verb +  -ed
I He She It You We They	walked	to the store yesterday.

Spelling Rules: Verb + ed

most regular verbs:	+ed	Marrie walked to school. Bobbie looked at a bird on the tree
regular verbs ending with -e	+ d	Jimmy  lived in England. Anne  died in 1982.
regular verbs ending In consonant + y:	-y > ied	He studied In London. She cried when Bobble, her dog died.
regular verbs ending In consonant + vowel + consonant: double the last consonant	double the last consonant +ed	He stopped learning in London last month. She travelled around the world.

How to pronounce -ed in the Simple Past

In the Simple Past we add -ed to regular verbs. Be careful pronuncing the verbs:

1. verbs ending in -ed preceded by a voiceless consonant [p, k, f, ʃ, ʧ, s, θ] → speak [t].
Example: I stop – I stopped [stɒpt]

2. verbs ending in -ed preceded by a voiced consonant [b, g, v, ʒ, ʤ, z, ð, l, m, n] or a vowel → speak [d].
Example: I clean – I cleaned [kli:nd]

3. verbs ending in -ed preceded by [t] or [d] → speak [ɪd].
Example: I visit – I visited [vɪzɪtɪd]

Irregular Verbs - use V2/Past Simple Tense
Subject	Main Verb V2/Past Simple Tense
I He She It You We They	ate	dinner two hours ago.
I He She It You We They	came	home early.

2) Do the exercise in writing form

3) Copy the text and underline only the main verbs.
Rewrite this text in past simple tense.

Boris wakes up  quite early. He looks at his watch. It is a quarter to seven.  Boris jumps out of bed and runs to the bathroom. He has  time to take a cold shower only. He is in a hur­ry.

At the railway station he meets three other boys from his group. They all have small backpacks and fishing rods.

     In less than an hour they get off the train at a small station near a wood. They walk very quickly and soon find themselves on the shore of a large lake. The boys spend the whole day there fishing, boating and swimming.

       They return home late at night, tired but happy.

    4) Revise the iregullar verbs