Understanding the Simple Past Tense • The simple past tense is used to talk about actions that happened in the past. • It often ends with -ed for regular verbs. Examples: - I played basketball yesterday. - She visited her grandmother last week. Time Expressions: - yesterday - last night - ago - last week/month/year
Regular vs. Irregular Verbs Regular Verbs → add -ed to form the past tense. - walk → walked - clean → cleaned Irregular Verbs → have different past forms. - go → went - eat → ate - have → had Activity: Match the verb with its past form! - go → ? - play → ? - eat → ?