past simple spelling rules

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Past simple

What did you do yesterday/last week?

What's the rule for regular verbs in the past?

past simple of love

past simple of cry

past simple of play

Create the rule.
Why is cry different than play?

past simple of stop

past simple of commit

past simple of develop (ontwikkelen)

When do we double the last letter?

1. Verbs with a vowel
2. verbs with a vowel and the stress is on the consonant
3. verbs with a single vowel and the stress is on the vowel
4. verbs with a single vowel and the stress is on the last syllable

Which letters are never doubled?

spelling rules

• share        --> shared                        drop the e
• cry             --> cried                             y--> ie
• play            --> played                         y stays (no spelling problem)
• stop           --> stopped                      double the last consonant
  
• commit    --> committed                 when the stress is on the
  
• develop    --> developed                 last vowel
• relax          --> relaxed                         don't double w or x
  

Past simple

• The action happened in the past. The action is completely over
  (Yesterday I visited my grandparents)
• Past habits 
  (When I was a kid I bit my fingernails)
• Sequence of actions in the past
  (First he stole the apples, then he walked to the bookshop, after that he ran away)

keywords in the past simple?

Past simple of speak

past simple of fall

Past simple of feel

past simple of do

Books

Fill in the green box on p 67

Irregular verbs --> Grammar Summary p 26-27

You need to know: Translation/ Infinitive/Past Simple

Plan KTs. See planner

Put this sentence in the negative.
I played tennis yesterday.

Put this sentence in the negative form.
I went to school yesterday.

Put in the negative
We were at at the concert.

Past simple negative

   I           didn't          PLAY     tennis.

   You    didn't           GO        to school.

                 DID+not + INF

TO BE/CAN

!     I          wasn't                 at the concert.    I couldn't play the piano.

      You     weren't              at the concert.    You couldn't play 

            

Practice time!

Fill in p 67 (grammar box)

Fill in p 68

Fill in p 80

Fill in p 81 (ex 23)

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