Tuesday 17th April

During this session we studied how to make questions and negative sentences in the past simple.
We have to follow the same rule as in the present simple.
To make questions in the past, we use the auxiliary verb "did" and the word order is the following:

(Wh.question)+ did + subject + verb (in the infinitive form)?
 What +did+you+ do+ yesterday?


To make negative sentences in the past time, we need the auxiliasry verb "didn't".

 subject+ didn't + verb (in the infinitive form)
 I +didn't +go+ to the cinema


First, we listened to Angie and Rick talking about their weekend (T.10.3). the students had to complete the dialogue with the missing words (p.73, ex.1).
Then, we had to write some incomplete questions in the past form and answered them according to the information we listened in ex.3(T.10.5).
And finally, we wrote about what Angie and Rick didn't do last weekend (ex.4/5).(T.10.6)
To consolidate the new grammar point, we did a role-play activity. The students had to make questions about Jane and Paul's yesterday activities looking at the pictures of their flats.

Homework: Grammar exercises from the photocopy about the past tense.(5B/C)
            Workbook unit 10, ex.5-8


Practise online:

Simple Past Tense 1/1 - exercises for beginners WAS/WERE, by Zsuzsapszi
Find this and other past simple exercises in English Exercises .org 2 Exercises/59 examples of Past Simple, by Irina
Find this and other past simple exercises in English Exercises .org Negative sentences in Simple Past Tense, by Marie Colon
Find this and other past simple exercises in English Exercises .org Simple Past - Regular and Irregular Verbs, by Telma Santos
Find this and other past simple exercises in English Exercises .org