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Title: Simple Past Tense


1
Simple Past Tense
  • -Form
  • -Meaning and Use
  • -Pronunciation

2
How do we form the simple past tense?
  • English has two types of verbs in the past
  • -regular
  • -irregular

3
Lets read the following list of past tense
verbs.. Which are regular and which are
irregular?
  • walked regular
  • studied regular
  • taught irregular
  • gave irregular
  • became irregular
  • cried regular
  • lived regular
  • did irregular

4
Regular verbs are verbs that end with -ed
Simple form verbs walk study cry live
Past tense verbs walked studied cried lived
Do you know the rule for choosing -ed or ied?
5
Rules for adding ed
  • Add ed to most verbs
  • Drop the e and add ed to verbs that end with
    e (smile smiled).
  • Change the y to i and add ed to verbs that
    end with a consonant and y (carry carried,
    study studied).
  • Double the consonant and add ed to verbs that
    end with one vowel and one consonant ( drag
    dragged, stop stopped).

6
Irregular verbs are verbs that dont end in
ed..
  • Sometimes with irregular past tense verbs you
    have to change the vowel to make the verb past
    tense
  • become became
  • give gave
  • drive drove
  • forget forgot

7
Other irregular verbs have a different kind of
change..you need to memorize these!
  • teach
  • bring
  • leave
  • hear
  • buy

taught brought left heard bought
8
Why do we use past tense verbs?
  • TO TELL THAT AN ACTION IS COMPLETED!!!!!!
    FINISHED!!! OVER!!!

YESTERDAY
LONG AGO
LAST WEEK
ONCE UPON A TIME...
RECENTLY
9
PRONOUNCIATION OF REGULAR VERBS
  • The ed ending in English has three different
    sounds

t walked, talked, jumped d played, loved,
answered id invited, waited decided.... With
id sounding words, there is another syllable!
10
How can you practice past tense verbs?
  • Phonemically (word sorts)
  • Bingo!
  • Modeling
  • Survey says
  • Nancy Fetzer
  • Direct instruction muiltiple opportunities to
    practice Skill mastery!!!!!
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