LITERACY UNIT 2

UNIT 2. WE HAD A CONCERT.

GRAMMAR: PAST SIMPLE.

We use the past tense to talk about:

• something that happened once in the past:

We went to Spain for our holidays.
They got home very late last night.

• something that happened again and again in the past:

We swam a lot while we were on holiday.
They always enjoyed visiting their friends.

• something that was true for some time in the past:

He enjoyed being a student.
She played a lot of tennis when she was younger.

• we often use phrases with ago with the past tense:

I met my wife in 1983.

When I was a boy I walked a mile to school every day.

I lived abroad for ten years.

I met my wife a long time ago.

VERB CLASSIFICATION: REGULAR AND IRREGULAR

A) PAST SIMPLE WITH REGULAR VERBS 

- Sentences in past simple:

Affirmative sentences (verb +ed):  I played football yesterday (Yo jugué al fútbol ayer)
Interrogative sentences (Did...? verb without -ed):  Did I play football yesterday?
Negative sentences (didn't + verb without -ed): I didn't play football yesterday.

B) PAST SIMPLE WITH IRREGULAR VERBS 

(De los verbos irregulares en pasado de este tema, de momento solo nos estudiaremos el verbo " to be" y el verbo "to have")

IRREGULAR VERBS IN PAST TENSE: TO BE (WAS/WERE) AND TO HAVE (HAD)

- to be in past simple:

- to have in past simple: