Have got in questions

•Have you got the time?

•Has she got a car?

Have got in negatives

• I haven’t got a car

The simple past

Present: am/is àpast: was

Present: are -àpast: were

Positive

I was

You were

He was

She was

We were

They were

Negative

I wasn’t (n’t = not)

You weren’t

He wasn’t

She wasn’t

We weren’t

They weren’t

Question

Was I?

Were you?

Was he?

Was she?

Were we?

Were they?

• Yesterday, I was sick

• She lived in London when she was young

• Were you on time for the meeting?

• No, I wasn’t – I was five minutes late

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Unit 6

–I

did/worked/went

Past simple

They watch television (present simple)

Yesterday, they watched television (past simple)

Past Present Future

I went I worked I stopped

English verbs can be divided into two groups – regular and irregular. In the past

simple, regular verbs end in –ed ; they do not change according to the subject:

• I worked

• You worked

• He worked

• She worked

• We worked

• They worked

Irregular Verbs

These verbs are called irregular because they do not end

in ‘ed’ like regular verbs. You must learn these verbs by

heart.

Examples of irregular verbs:

• Begin à began

• Break à broke

• Buy à bought

• Come à came

• Do à did

• Drink à drank

• Eat à ate

• Find à found

• Get à got

• Give à gave

• Go à went

• Have à had

• Know à knew

• Leave à left

• Make à made

• Pay à paid

• Put à put

• Read à read (pronounced

‘red’)

• Ring à rang

• Say à said

• Think à thought

you will find a list of irregular verbs here:

http://anglais-facile.com/irrverb.html

Negative and Questions

Use the auxiliary did for questions and negatives in the past:

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