Past Simple - Form - Regular Verbs

 We use the Past Simple to talk about an action that happened in the past.

REMEMBER:

 

Ej:  Peter visited his granny last Saturday. (affirmative)

Peter didn't visit his granny last month. (negative) 

Did Peter visit his granny Yesterday? (interrogative)

 

Regular verbs

➤Verb+ed
want → wanted        work → worked  

➤Verb, ending in – e+d
dance → danced          live → lived

➤Verbs, ending in consonant+y: y → i + ed
cry → cried         try → tried 

➤A verb ending in one vowel+consonant: double the consonant when the last syllable of the word is accented.
stop → stopped         travel  → travelled    not in: visit → visited

 

Let's practise the regular verbs with this activity.
Go to Liveworksheets, log in with user and password and in Past Simple do Activity 2.

Interactive Liveworksheet "Past Tense - Regular Verbs"

Present Perfect 2 - Form and uses

The Present Perfect Tense

⏩ The Present Perfect is used to talk about an event that began or happened in the past and has some relation with the present:

Subj + have/has + past participle ....

• I've forgotten her name. (I can't remember it now.)
• He hasn't washed his car. (It isn't clean now.)
• I've lost my phone. (I can't find it now.) 
• They haven't finished lunch. (They are eating now.)
• My father has lived in London for 10 Years. (He still lives there.)
  

 ⏩ When we express an action in the recent past with just.

• It has just stopped raining. (It stopped raining a short time ago.)

 ⏩ Present Perfect with already and yet.

 

                already (affirmative) - (before the past participle)

               yet (negative or interrogative) - (at the en of the sentence)

• She has already done her homework.  (She finished before now.)
• The train hasn't arrived yet.
• Have you made your bed yet?
  

 ⏩ Present Perfect with ever and never. We use ever and never to talk about experiences in our lives up to now.

• We've never been to New York. 
• Have you ever ridden a horse? 

  ⏩ Present Perfect with for and since.

• We use for when we are talking about a period of time.  She has lived in Brighton for six years.
  
• We use since when we are talking about the start of the period. She has lived in Brighton since 2014.
  

 

Now let's do some exercises to practise the Present Perfect.

Go to Liveworksheets, log in with user and password and in Present Perfect do Activity 1 & 2.

⏩  1.- Liveworksheet Activity

⏩  2.- Present Perfet (already, yet, just, since, for, ever, never)

Communicate in the Classroom

 Useful sentences in the classroom

Prepositions of Time

 Seven exercises to practise the Prepositions of Time

We Went Camping - Irregular Verbs

 

English Conversation Practice

 Here's a video to practise  Simple coversation

What time is it?

What time is it?// What's the time?

   

Let's do some activities to practise the time.

⏩ 1.- Choose the correct option.

⏩ 2.- Choose the correct option 2.

⏩ 3.- Listen and choose the correct  option.

⏩ 4.- Play the game.  

⏩ 5.- Learning chocolate - 5 activities 

⏩ 6.- The hours 

⏩ 7.- What time is it - Write.

"All About us 5" - stories

 ALL ABOUT US 5

 Here you have six stories to practise your listening.

⏩ - Story 1 - "Mad about football"

⏩ - Story 2 - "Closing Time"

⏩ - Story 3 - "The destruction of Pompeii"

⏩ - Story 4 - "Marie Curie: A life in science"

⏩ - Story 5 - "The mountain"

⏩ - Story 6 - "Don't burn the fish"  

Asking and giving directions

                              Where is it? - Asking the way 

 

Now let's do these activities:

⏩ 1.- Listen, read and choose the correct option.

⏩ 2.- Asking and giving directions 2

⏩ 3.- Listen and choose the correct place. 

⏩ 4.- Look at the map and complete the directions.

⏩ 5.- Match the questions with the answers. 

⏩ 6.- Listen and match the questions with the answers. 

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