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Chapter 5, Book 3BPrimary Longman Express

Past tense

Past tense

When we talk about something that happened in the past (e.g. yesterday), we use the past tense.

I played football yesterday.

I cooked a meal yesterday.

I planted some trees yesterday.

We usually put ed on the the verb to form the past form.

play

kick

pull

played

kicked

pulled

Past tense

Practice

Present tense

climb

pull

kick

bake

jump

Past tense

climbed

pulled

kicked

baked

jumped

If there is no action in a sentence, we use ‘was’ or ‘were’ as the verb.

am / is / are was / were

I was short.

You were fat.

Past tense

Different forms of the verb be:

They / You / We

He / She / It

I

Past tense

Presenttense

wereare

iswas

am

2. They _______ (be) hungry yesterday.

Practice

1.I _______ (be) happy last week.was

were

3. It _______ (be) Sports Day last Friday.

4. We _______ (be) lazy last year.

was

were

drop

hop

skip

dropped

hopped

skipped

Sometimes we have to repeat the last letter before ed.

Past tense

If the verb end with the letter y, we have to change it into ied in its past form.

cry

carry

study

tidy

cried

carried

studied

tidied

However, there are some exceptions:playenjoy

playedenjoyed

Hint words:

yesterday last night

last Sunday last year

… ago

Now

yesterday

last night

last year

last Sunday

50 years ago

When we see the following words, we have to use the past tense.

Now you try.

I ________ my food yesterday.

drop my food

dropped

I _______ my grandparents last Sunday.

visit my grandparents

visited

cry

My brother _________ last night.cried

Practice

1. Tom ______ (be) 5 years old last year.

2. Sam and Ken ______ (skip) yesterday.

3. Mary ______ (study) last night.

4. It ______ (be) Games Day last Sunday.

5. We _________ (watch) TV last night.

6. I ______ (play) basketball yesterday.

was

skipped

studied

was

watched

played

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