Class 14 - Simple Past

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Conversation 
 
Charlie: Heather, we need to get started on that movie project. It’s got to be 
something really good! 
Heather: Not like that terrible movie I saw last night. It was a waste of time. 
Charlie: What was it called? 
Heather: It’s so bad that I forgot the name. Something about “lost hope”. It was so 
gory. There was blood and shooting all the time. 
Charlie: Oh, now I know what you’re talking about. The acting was just awful. 
Heather: It was! I can’t stand overacting. They exaggerate every line. 
Charlie: That’s definitely something to avoid in our project. 
Heather: I was thinking we could produce a very tragic and romantic story, like The 
English Patient or something. 
Charlie: No way. 
Heather: Ok, what can I do…? I got it! Oh, this is going to be a box office hit, I can 
feel it. 
Charlie: Remember we have limited funds. 
Heather: It won’t need a lot of special effects. 
Charlie: What’s your brilliant idea? 
Heather: A murder mystery… documentary style! 
Charlie: Nooo! Documentaries are so boring. 
Heather: No, listen. It will be documentary style. As if we were following a real 
police investigation. 
Charlie: Cool, but how are we going to cover the production costs? We have to hire a 
cast, and actors are expensive. 
Heather: We’ll hire amateurs. 
Charlie: I like the way you think, Heather. 
Heather: You know what they say: great minds think alike! 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Vocabulary 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Simple Past 
 
We use the simple past to refer to concluded actions in the past. 
 
 Routine Past 
I work everyday. I went to the park yesterday. 
I study English at night. I studied Spanish last year 
I live in Macaé. I was born in 1986. 
 
 
 The auxiliar for the Simple Past is “Did”. When we use DID in an interrogative or 
negative sentence, the verb will not change. 
 
Ex: I didn’t go to the beach yesterday. (In the negative sentence, we need to use “Didn’t”, and 
when we use the auxiliar, the verb “GO” will be in the normal form) 
 
 Did you like the movie? 
 
 There are regular and irregular verbs. 
In the Simple Past, the regular verbs are simply put in the past by adding an ED in the end of 
the verb. 
 
Ex: Present – Study Present – Watch Present - Try 
 Past – Studied Past – Watched Past – Tried 
 
Note: Regular verbs that end in “Y” and have a consonant before, like STUDY, when put in the 
past, you remove the “Y” and add “IED”. 
 
Structure of the Simple Past 
 
Affirmative Negative Interrogative 
Subject + Verb + ED 
(In case of regular 
verb) 
Subject + Didn't Did + Subject 
 
 
Verb to be in the past 
 
Am – Was 
Is – Was 
Are – Were 
 
 
 
 
 
Used to 
 
We use this to talk about habits/routines in the past (You don’t do this situation in the 
present) 
 
Eg: I used to play with my friend when I was a child. 
 She used to call her boyfriend every day. 
 My father used to work at Petrobras. 
 
Irregular verbs 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Exercises 
 
1. Change the following sentences to the negative and interrogative forms. 
 
a) Michael wrote a letter to his girlfriend last night. 
Int: _________________________________________________________? 
Neg:_________________________________________________________. 
 
b) The teacher brought new books last week. 
Int: _________________________________________________________? 
Neg:_________________________________________________________. 
 
c) I heard the new U2 song on the radio this morning. 
Int: _________________________________________________________? 
Neg:_________________________________________________________. 
 
2. Answer the questions below in complete sentences, as in the example. 
 
e.g: How did you come to school? 
 I took the bus to school. 
 
a) What month was last month? 
_______________________________________________________________. 
 
b) What did you do last weekend? 
_______________________________________________________________. 
 
c) When was the last time you traveled on vacation? Where did you go? 
________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________. 
 
d) What do you like to do in your free time? 
______________________________________________________________. 
 
e) What did you eat for dinner last night? 
______________________________________________________________. 
 
f) What did you do last summer? 
______________________________________________________________. 
 
 
 
3. Complete the sentences using the verbs from the list. 
 
to eat to watch to drink to study 
 
to drive to win to happen to go 
 
a) Peter___________ to the grocery store to buy some cheese. 
b) Ayrton Senna ____________ 51 races during his career in F1. 
c) I____________ three slices of pizza for dinner. 
d) Last night, Jessica_____________ Biology and then____________ TV. 
e) Something strange_________________ to us last week. 
f) My uncle________________ me to school this morning. 
g) Sam’s girlfriend _____________ so much at the party the she couldn’t stay 
awake. 
 
4. Complete with the verbs in the past. 
 
a) Last year I ________________(go) to England on holiday. 
b) It ___________________ (be) fantastic. 
c) I _________________(visit) lots of interesting places. I ______________(be) 
with two friends of mine. 
d) In the mornings we ___________________ (walk) in the streets of London. 
e) In the evenings we_________________________ (go) to pubs. 
f) The weather _______________________(be) strangely fine. 
g) It _________________________(not / rain) a lot. 
h) But we___________________________ (see) some beautiful rainbows. 
i) Where________________________ (spend / you) your last holiday? 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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