SIMPLE PAST

2. 1. Para expresar una acción que comenzó y terminó en un
momento específico en el pasado. A veces, el hablante no
puede realmente hablar de la hora específica, pero sí tienen
un momento específico en mente.
Ejemplos:
 I saw a movie yesterday.
 Last year, I traveled to Japan.
 Did you have dinner last night?
 She washed her car two hours ago.

3.  2. Usamos el pasado simple para listar una serie de acciones
realizadas en el pasado. Estas acciones ocurren primero,
segundo, tercero, cuarto, y así sucesivamente.
Ejemplos:
 I finished work, walked to the beach, and found a nice place to swim.
 He arrived from the airport at 8:00, checked into the hotel at 9:00, and
met the others at 10:00.
 Did you add flour, pour in the milk, and then add the eggs?

4. 3. El pasado simple se puede utilizar con una duración que se inicia
y se detiene en el pasado. Una duración es una acción ya que a
menudo indica mediante expresiones tales como: durante dos
años, durante cinco minutos, todos los días, todo el año, etc.
Ejemplos:
 I lived in Brazil for two years.
 Ruti studied Japanese for five years.
 They sat at the beach all day.
 They did not stay at the party the entire time.
 We talked on the phone for thirty minutes.

5. 4. El pasado simple también se puede utilizar para describir un
hábito que se detuvo en el pasado. Se puede tener el mismo
significado que "solía hacerlo." Para que quede claro que estamos
hablando de un hábito, a menudo nos sumamos expresiones tales
como: siempre, a menudo, por lo general, nunca, cuando yo era
un niño, cuando era más joven, etc.
Ejemplos:
 I studied French when I was a child.
 He played the violin.
 He didn't play the piano.
 Did you play a musical instrument when you were a kid?
 She worked at the movie theater after school.

6. 5. El pasado simple también se puede utilizar para describir
hechos pasados o generalizaciones que ya no son verdad.
Este uso del pasado simple es bastante similar a la expresión
"solía".
Ejemplos:
 She was shy as a child, but now she is very outgoing.
 He didn't like tomatoes before.
 Did you live in Texas when you were a kid?
 People paid much more to make cell phone calls in the past.

7. Form: Verb “TO BE”
• I : I was born in Israel.
• he: He was a doctor.
• she: She was in the USA.
• it: It was cold yesterday
Was
• we: We were at home yesterday.
• you: You were right!
• they: They were in Italy last
summer.
Were

8. Negative Form: Verb ‘TO BE’
I, he, she, it - was not (wasn’t)
• I wasn’t sick last week.
• He wasn’t in Eilat last summer.
• She wasn’t at school on Monday.
We, you, they – were not (weren’t)
• We were not at home on Saturday.
• You weren’t happy with your grades.
• They weren’t angry with his behavior.

9. Questions with Verb “TO BE”
 Yes / No Question
 Wh – Non- Subject Question
 Wh- Subject Question
Was
Were
I, she, he, it
we, you, they
complement
complement
Wh - word was
were
I, she, he, it
we, you, they
complement
Who/What was complement

10. Past Simple: Regular Verbs
 El pasado simple de los verbos más inglés (verbos regulares)
se forma añadiendo "-ed" / "- d" a su forma base. (Si el
verbo termina en "-e", añadimos "-d" para formar el pasado
simple)
 Ejemplos:
 We arrived at 9:00 o'clock.
 My brother lived in London four years ago.
 When she was young, she danced beautifully.

11. Spelling Rules
• If a regular verb ends in consonant + y change y to i and add -ed:
carry - carried, study - studied, fry - fried, try - tried
• If a one syllable regular verb ends
in consonant + vowel + consonant double the final consonant and add -
ed -- > stop - stopped, plan - planned, rob - robbed, beg - begged
• If a regular verb has more than one syllable and ends
in consonant + vowel + consonant, we double the final consonant only
if the final syllable is stressed -- > preFER - preferred, regRET -
regretted

12. Irregular Verbs
 También hay algunos verbos llamados verbos irregulares que
tienen formas especiales en tiempo pasado.
 We went (go) to school yesterday.
 The children read (read) that story last year.
 Tamar wrote (write) the letter to her friend on Sunday.
 The students forgot (forget) to do the homework.

13. Negative Form
 Negativos en el pasado simple se forman añadiendo no
(informal) o no (formal) antes de la forma simple del verbo.
 The girl didn’t come to school yesterday.
 The parents didn’t work on Sunday.
 The baby didn’t drink milk in the morning.
Subject did not verb complement

14. Questions
 Yes / No Question
 Did Nevo see his grandparents yesterday?
 Wh – Non – Subject Question
 Where did you spend your holidays?
 Wh – Subject Question
 Who wrote this beautiful poem?
Did
Who / What
Wh - word
Rest of the
sentence
VerbSubject ?
Subject verb
Rest of the
sentence
?
verb
Rest of the
sentence
?
did