Module 1 - Who were they?

He lived in Fiji in 1976.

We crossed the Channel yesterday.

John Cabot sailed to America in 1498.

She finished her work at seven o'clock

She played the piano when she was a
child.

What do these sentences
have in common?

Simple Past –
Language Use

• The simple past is a verb tense
that is used to talk about things
that happened or existed before
now. Imagine someone asks
what your brother did while he
was in town last weekend.

How would you answer to that
question?

S I M P L E P A S T
–
G R A M M A T I C A L
S T R U C T U R E

W H A T
A B O U T
V E R B S ?

S P E L L I N G
R U L E S
F O R
R E G U L A R
V E R B S

S I M P L E P A S T
–
G R A M M A T I C A L
S T R U C T U R E