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GUIDED LESSON

Past Simple and Past Time

Describe completed past events with regular and irregular verbs.

Lesson focus

Describe completed past events with regular and irregular verbs.

Core idea

Use the past form for completed actions at a finished time. Use did + base verb for questions and did not + base verb for negatives.

Examples

I visited Chattogram last year.

She went home early.

Did you call him?

Useful vocabulary

WordMeaning
completedfinished
agobefore now
yesterdaythe day before today

Active practice

Do this now: Tell a six-sentence story about yesterday using at least two irregular past verbs.

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