It is used for finished actions, states or habits in the past with a past time reference ➣ yesterday ➣ last week ➣ at 2 o’clock ➣ in 2003 ➣ when I was born
Last week a new student from China joined our class. She came in, introduced herself, and began to talk about her country. She showed us in a map where she was from.
FORM
Affirmative | Negative | Interrogative |
---|---|---|
I worked | I did not work ✄didn’t | Did I work? |
You understood | You did not understand | Did you understand? |
He slept | He did not sleep | Did he sleep? |
She thought | She did not think | Did she think? |
It worked | It did not work | Did it work? |
We studied | We did not study | Did we study? |
You went together | You did not go together | Did you go together? |
They learnt | They did not learn | Did they learn? |
Famous people
![](https://englishtoconnect.me/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/was-were-famous-people-730x1024.jpg)
reference: New Generation Colin Granger Heinemann
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Listen to what happened to Tony last weekend
First choose a, b or c and then choose the right answer for the 7 sentences:
![](https://englishtoconnect.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Past-Tense-accidents-2-1024x503.jpg)
![](https://englishtoconnect.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Past-Tense-accidents-3.jpg)
reference: English for Life Pre-Intermediate Oxford
![](https://englishtoconnect.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Past-Tense-accidents-script.jpg)
Here you have the script if you need to read it
Listen and put the pictures in chronological order
![](https://englishtoconnect.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/listening.jpg)
![](https://englishtoconnect.me/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Past-tense-change-of-life-script.jpg)
Here you have the script if you need to read it
answers: a 5 , b 4 , c 2 , d 6 , e 3 , f 1
reference: English for Life Pre-Intermediate Oxford
![](https://englishtoconnect.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/simple-past-tense.png?w=700)
Who were these people
![](https://englishtoconnect.me/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/past-tense_LI-761x1024.jpg)
reference: New Generation Colin Granger Heinemann
VERB ➨ TO BE
![](https://englishtoconnect.me/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/was-were-to-be-past-tense.jpg)
![](https://englishtoconnect.me/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/was-were-questions-past-tense.jpg)
![](https://englishtoconnect.me/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/was-were-victorian-houses-881x1024.jpg)
reference: English for Adults Burlington
Reading ➢ The Elephant Man
![](https://englishtoconnect.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/elephant-man1-751x1024.jpg)
![](https://englishtoconnect.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/elephant-man2-697x1024.jpg)
![](https://englishtoconnect.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/elephant-man3-680x1024.jpg)
![](https://englishtoconnect.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/elephant-man4-673x1024.jpg)
reference: New Generation Colin Granger Heinemann