Learning The Past Tense:

Learning The Past Tense                                            Look at these verbs:

Present (Today)talk walk play laugh help ask answer shout finish look

Past Tense: (Yesterday)talked walked played laughed helped asked answered shouted finished looked

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Change these sentences into the Past Tense.

For example:
Jane talks to the teacher.
Jane talked to the teacher.

1. The students walk to their lessons.
2. The children play in the park.
3. They laugh at the joke.
4. The good students help their teacher with the books.
5. She asks him a question about the homework.
6. The student answers the question.
7. The angry teacher shouts at the naughty students.
8. When they finish reading, they look at the pictures.

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Now look at these special verbs:

Present (Today)am / are / is do can have / has go run speak learn drive eat cry hurry stop

Past Tense: (Yesterday)was did could had went ran spoke learnt drove ate cried hurried stopped

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Change these sentences into the Present Tense:

1. Ahmed was in the school football team.
2. I did basketball on Saturday afternoons.
3. We went to the cinema at weekends.
4. You ran around the playing fields.
5. Sofia and Rahma spoke English very well and learnt the exercise quickly.
6. Ahmed drove a big red car, but had an accident.
7. I cried when the story was sad.
8. They hurried home from school and stopped at the shop for sweets.