2. Was / Were
I am I was
She is She was
He is He was
You are You were
We are We were
They are They were
3. Present / Past
I am twelve years old I was ten years old in 2003
She is a housewife She was a nurse last year
John is a teacher John was a student ten
years ago
My friends are happy today My friends were sad
yesterday
My mother is very old My mother was young
twenty years ago
Flowers were in the garden
Flowers are in the vase
two hours ago
4. Past Forms of Regular Verbs
smile d drop ped
hoped stopped
like d plan ned
talk ed ied
study
played carryied
ask ed worry ied
5. Regular Verbs
I play football everyday I played football
yesterday
He studies every night He studied last night
James cleans his car James cleaned his car
on Sundays last Sunday
They walk to the They walked to the school
school every morning yesterday morning
You always smile in You smiled yesterday
the morning morning
6. Past Forms of Irregular Verbs
go went speak spoke
come came feel felt
write wrote sleep slept
take took cut cut
read read run ran
fly flew fall fell
drink drank leave left
eat ate teach taught
7. Irregular Verbs
We go to school on We went to school
Mondays last Monday
Linda writes a poem Linda wrote a poem
every week last week
My father drives his My father drove his
car everyday car yesterday
I always drink milk in I drank milk
the mornings yesterday morning
8. Time Clauses
yesterday in 2002
last week yesterday afternoon
two hours ago last year
in 1986 five minutes ago
last Sunday last night
yesterday morning two weeks ago
last month yesterday evening
ten years ago last Friday
9. Negative Forms
I wasn’t at home I didn’t play football
yesterday last Monday
She wasn’t a doctor Jane didn’t go to
ten years ago school yesterday
We weren’t at school They didn’t drink coke
last week yesterday evening
John wasn’t my friend My father didn’t read
two months ago the newspaper
They weren’t happy yesterday
yesterday morning
10. Question Form (was / were)
Were you at home last night?
- Yes, I was
Was she a nurse ten years ago?
- No, she wasn’t
Were they at school yesterday?
- Yes, they were
Was he a student in 1996?
- No, he wasn’t
11. Question Form (did)
Did you play football yesterday?
- No, I didn’t
Did they go to school last week?
- Yes, they did
Did she drink milk yesterday morning?
- No, she didn’t
Did William sleep last night?
- Yes, he did
12. Question Form (Wh)
Where were you What did you learn last
yesterday? week?
- I was at school - We learnt Simple Past
When were you born? Tense.
- I was born in Ankara Where did you go
Where was Atatürk yesterday?
born? - I went to the cinema
yesterday.
- He was born in Selanik