PAST SIMPLE



VERB FORMS
 Regular – adding –ED/-D
 work – worked play – played want – wanted close – closed
 stop – stopped cry – cried post – posted
 push – pushed  warn – warned hate – hated

 Irregular
 see – saw be – was/were
 run – ran have – had
 read – read can – could etc.

VERB FORMS 2
 Positive sentences
 She enjoyed the laboratory assay very much.

 Yes/No Questions Wh-Questions
 Did she enjoy the assay? When/Why did she run the test?

 Negative sentences
 No, she didn’t run/enjoy the test.

PAST SIMPLE USE
 Finished events, activities or states:
  Einstein died in 1955. He became famous for his theory of
  relativity.

 Events that happened at a specific time in the past:
  In 1921, Einstein received a Nobel Prize in Physics.

PAST PROGRESSIVE/CONTINUOUS



VERB FORMS
 BE + ING form

  I writing an article.
  You reading a book.
  She was listening to music.
  We were revising for the test.
  They cooking dinner.

 VERB FORMS 2
 Positive sentences
  He was running to school.

 Questions
  Was he studying? What was he studying?

 Negative sentences
  He wasn’t studying.

PAST PROGRESSIVE USE
 I was doing sth = I was in the middle of doing something at a certain time. The activity started
before this time and didn’t finish.

  What were you doing at 10 am yesterday?
  This time last year, I was living in Brazil.
  I waved to Helen, but she wasn’t looking.

PAST SIMPLE / PAST PROGRESSIVE
 We often use Past Simple and Past Progressive together to say that something happened in the
middle of something else.

  I was running the electrophoresis when Joe moved the tank.
  He was trying to apologize, but I went away.