The Past Simple
We use the past simple to talk about actions and states which we see as completed in the past.
We can use it to talk about a specific point in time.
- She came back last Friday.
- I saw her in the street.
- They didn't agree to the deal.
It can also be used to talk about a period of time.
- She lived in Tokyo for seven years.
- They were in London from Monday to Thursday of last week.
- When I was living in New York, I went to all the art exhibitions I could.
You will often find the past simple used with time expressions such as these:
- Yesterday
- three weeks ago
- last year
- in 2002
- from March to June
- for a long time
- for 6 weeks
- in the 1980s
- in the last century
- in the past
We have regular and irregular verbs in the English language, just like in French. Here is a list of 50 of the most commonly used irregular verbs:
Let's try the following exercises:
You are going to work in a pair to write a newspaper article about a robbery in a public place. You have 20 minutes to organise your story. Think about your Headline and the most important information you need to include in your first paragraph. You can use Google translate but only for the vocabulary that you need NOT to translate your text!
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