Teacher’s instructions

・ The past simple tense is one of the tenses used to talk about events in the past. It refers to finished actions and events. Very often the English past simple tense ends in -ed. This is the regular past tense.

For example [write on board]:

I played tennis with Paula.

・ How to form English past simple tense?

Very often the English past simple tense ends in -ed. This is the regular past tense. But there are some verbs you we need add ?d or change the ending a little.

Verb ending in…	How to make the simple past	Examples
e	Add -d	live → lived move → moved
Consonant+y	Change y to I, then add -ed	try → tried cry → cried
One vowel + one consonant (but NOT w or y)	Double the consonant, then add -ed	drop → dropped chat → chatted
Anything else including w	Add -ed	boil → boiled hand → handed play → played

・ When you talk about a finished time in the past, the English past simple tense is often accompanied by a temporal adverb or time expression.

For example [write on board]:

Yesterday, I watched television.

・ Can anybody tell me some other adverbs?

[brainstorm temporal adverbs and write on board]