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SELF-STUDY MATERIALS FOR UNIT IIIThe Past Simple Tense is used: to talk about a complete action or an event in the past. The action can be a short one I missed the bus. I asked a question. or a long one I lived there for years. I walked for hours. When we talk about actions and situations in the past we use: a) adverbs of frequency to talk about habits Always At school he always complained about bad food. Usually When I was a child, I usually went to the cinema with my parents. Seldom Jack's parents seldom went on holiday when he was a little boy. NeverMy brother never missed a classical guitar performance. b) adverbs of sequence to order events Yesterday morning/afternoon/evening; The day before yesterday; Kate worked yesterday afternoon. night/week/month/year; five minutes a week Lastspring/summer/autumn/winter; three hours two months ago Monday /Tuesday, etc. five days a year Jane moved into a new flat last week. He passed all his exams two months ago. Long ago Long ago, people learned to make musical instruments. (Many) years later . Years later people learned to make more elaborate ones. Many years ago Many years ago my mother taught me to play the piano. After thatAfter that I started taking piano classes with a professional pianist. (Soon) afterwards Soon afterwards I played the piano in many piano performances. In those days In those days piano performances were quite popular. Then Then I gave up playing music. At that time At that time I was rather keen on sports. Positive form Regular verbs I watch television everyevening. (present simple) I watched television yesterdayevening. (past simple) watchedis the past simple:
■ The past simple is often -ed. For example: work > worked clean > cleaned start > started stay > stayed live > lived dance > danced These verbs are regular verbs. - I clean my teeth every morning. This morning I cleanedmy teeth. - Terry workedin a bank from 1981 to 1986. - Yesterday it rainedall morning. It stoppedat lunchtime. - We enjoyedthe party last Might. We danceda lot and talkedto a lot of people. The party finishedat midnight. Spelling ► study > studied marry> married stop > stopped plan> planned Exercise 1. Complete the sentences using the words in the list. Use the Present Simple or the Past Simple:
Example: Mike often asks questions. He asked a lot of questions in class yesterday.
1. Lily and Jack ___their grandparents every weekend. They ___ them last weekend too. 2. I usually ___to the news on TV before I go to sleep at night, but last night I ___ to the news on the radio. 3. Ann seldom ___ her homework before midnight. But yesterday she ___ her homework at 10 p.m. 4. I usually ___ a lot of people to my birthday party. But last year I ___ only my close friends. 5. Take care! This crossroads is extremely dangerous. Accidents are often here. A serious accident ___ at this crossroads only a few days ago. 6. In the evening my parents ___ at home and ___TV. As usual they ___ at home and ___ TV last night. Date: 2015-12-11; view: 1101
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