General English Level 1 GELEV1 Unit 05 Topic 01.doc When we talk about finished time (yesterday, before, last night, two weeks ago etc.) we use the past tense. Was, took, went, cooked and ate are examples of the past simple tense. Look I You He She It We They was cooked ate went took Past simple verbs usually end in –ed. These are regular verbs, for example cooked, watched, lived. Some past simple verbs are irregular, for example, went, saw, ate. Regular verbs – examples 1. Read the examples. 2. Listen to your recording. 3. Practise saying each example. 1. I cook dinner every night. I cooked dinner last night. 2. I talk to my mother twice a week. I talked to my mother last Monday 3. You listen to a lot of conversations in this course. You listened to Carmen and Amy before. 4. Geng plays soccer every weekend. He played soccer last weekend. 5. Amy sometimes watches TV at night. She watched TV every night last week. 6. Class usually starts at 9 o’clock. It started at 10 o’clock yesterday. 7. We don’t often stay home on the weekends. We stayed home last Saturday. 8. Tom and Roberta live in Chatswood now. They lived in Ashfield in 1999. 210 QUESTLANGUAGE