SISP, SMK Clifford, Kuala Lipis, Pahang Darul Makmur.

Simple Past Tense

WHAT IS PAST TENSE?

Past Tense explains something that already happened.

Timeline:

Yesterday

Today

Tomorrow

Past -----------Present--------Future

Signal words:
Yesterday Last night Last week Last year A month ago Two years ago Once upon a time Just now

Verb:

What are some examples of verb?

walk

listen

jump

laugh

dance

The verbs in our sentences change when we talk about what has already happened.
I walk to school
I jump on my bed

I walked to school
I jumped on my bed

Can you see how we have changed these verbs?

Add ed

Using this rule, can you find the missing word in the sentence below?

I _________ football yesterday.

A

playet
play played

walk
He
walked

to his office

yesterday.

laugh
Donald Duck
laughed

happily

last week.

listen
Mr Emo listened to the

music just now.

Add only D for the verb ending with e

dance
They happily during the show last weekend.

Change the story into past tense

After school I play with my pet dinosaur. I dance with him. I play football with him. I cook him some soup and use very big vegetables because he was always hungry. I love my dinosaur and always smile when we jump around the park! I like having a pet dinosaur so much!