SIMPLE PAST TENSE

1. SIMPLE PAST TENSE

2. Regular Verbs Most verbs are regular verbs. Regular verbs are those whose past tense and past participles are formed by adding a -d or an -ed to the end of the verb. roll, rolled

3. Irregular VerbsThere is no formula to predict how an irregular verb will form its past-tense and past-participle forms. There are over 250 irregular verbs in English. Although they do not follow a formula, there are some fairly common irregular forms.

4. Some of these forms are: break, broke cut, cutrun, ran meet, met come, came swim, swam be, was/were

5. Do you know the past verbs? present past begin ___ buy ___ drive ___ fail ___ feel ___ go ___ grow ___ hear ___ present past know ___ leave ___ lose ___ mean ___ pay ___ sell ___ sit ___ think ___

6. Strategies to learn irregular verbs http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/unreg_verben2.htm

7. Simple Past � Regular Verbs -Spelling 1) CVC - Double the consonant. stop � stoppedswap - swapped

8. Simple Past � Regular Verbs -Spelling 2) Add only -d. love � lovedsave � saved

9. Simple Past � Regular Verbs -Spelling 3) verbs ending in -y verbs ending in 'y' preceded by a vowel -ed play - played

10. Simple Past � Regular Verbs -Spelling 4) verbs ending in 'y' preceded by a consonant: Change 'y' to 'i' .Then add -ed. study � studied

11. Affirmative sentences: I played football. I went to the supermarket.

12. Negative sentences: Use the auxiliary did I didn't (did not) play football. I didn't (did not) go to the supermarket.

13. Questions: Use the auxiliary did Did you play football? Did I go to the supermarket?

16. Agora passe as frases abaixo para a forma Negativa: 1) Marcos and Rita bought a new computer. 2) I finished my homework. 3) L�cia played video games with Beto yesterday. 4) My pen drive broke. 5) I was at home last weekend.

17. Agora passe as frases abaixo para a forma Interrogativa: 1) Microsoft released a new Widows version last year. 2) The children used the computer last night. 3) Mauro learned English at school. 4) We have studied Math last night. 5) They were friends at school.

18. Evolution of Technology Since computers were first introduced to the public in the early 1980's, technology changed a great deal. The first computers were simple machines designed for basic tasks. They did not have much memory and they were not very powerful. 

19. Computers were often quite expensive and customers often paid thousands of dollars for machines which actually did very little. Most computers were separate, individual machines used mostly as expensive typewriters or for playing games. 

20. Times have changed. Computers have become powerful machines with very practical applications. Programmers have created a large selection of useful programs which do everything from teaching foreign languages to bookkeeping. We are still playing video games, but today's games have become faster, more exciting interactive adventures.

21. Many computer users have also got on the Internet and have begun communicating with other computer users around the world. We have started to create international communities online. In short, the simple, individual machines of the past have evolved into an international World Wide Web of knowledge.

22. Sobre o texto anterior... 1) Qual o objetivo do texto? 2) Os primeiros computadores eram m�quinas de pre�o baixo? 3) Como eram os primeiros computadores? 4) Cite pelo menos duas a��es que podemos realizar atrav�s dos computadores atualmente.

23. Sobre o texto anterior... 5) Sublinhe uma frase que est� na forma negativa no passado simples. 6) Quantas vezes o verbo To Be aparece no texto no passado simples? 7) Circule 2 verbos regulares.