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Present Progressive

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Simple Past

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The Simple Past is used to talk about actions or situations in the past. It is also called Past Simple.

Have a look at the following examples:

1) action finished in the past (single or repeated)

I visited Berlin last week.
Andrew watched TV yesterday.

2) series of completed actions in the past

First I got up, then I had breakfast.

3) together with the Past Progressive/Continuous – The Simple Past interrupted an action which was in progress in the past.

They were playing cards when the telephone rang.
1st action: Past Progressive were playing
2nd action: Simple Past rang

Information taken from: Englisch-hilfen.de

Form:

Affirmative Negative Interrogative
I drew my life I did not/didn’t draw my life Did I draw my life?
She said her idea She did not/didn’t say her idea Did she say her idea?

Please check this Prezi presentation to understand this topic a little bit better 🙂

Exercises:

Before going over thousands of exercises about this structure I will recommend you to learn the verbs and its pronunciation, to do that here you have these links:

Learn verbs in simple past: This is the list you need to study and here you have exercises 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 (All irregular verbs)

After those exercises I would recommend you to practise with the structure itself

Chicago’s exercise

Oxford’s exercise

Mixed Exercise in Simple Past

Test: Simple Past: Level 1, Level 2, Level 3

 

 

Imperative

Guess who want you to learn Imperative

Bossy

Yeap! Little Miss Bossy Wants! 😛

We use the imperative basically to give orders but also to give intructions and informal advices.

Uses:

  • We can use the imperative to give a direct order

In this image the plant is giving the man a direct order using the imperative structure

  • We can use the imperative to give instructions

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Here they are giving you instructions on how to cook rice. Note this are not orders as in the example shown above, at least you work as a chef 😉

  • We can use the imperative to make an invitation.

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  • We can use the imperative on signs and notices.

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  • We can use the imperative to give friendly informal advice.

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  • If we add do we make the imperative a bit more “polite”

Grammar explanation taken from: English Grammar Secrets

Exercises: (Tell me your scores in the comment box!)

Englisch-hilfen.de

E- Grammar.org

English Grammar Secrets has 5 sets of exercises for you to practice the imperative

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40 verbs

Hi guys and LD 🙂

Here you have the list of 40 verbs. Do you remember that I told you that we will have 5 verbs each class?  Yeap! we will have 5 verbs each class.

In class we are going to write down the verbs and at home we will look up for its english definition, are you guys confused? Here you have two examples:

Examples:

Infinitive Simple Present Simple Past Definition
To be Am / Is / Are Was / Were To exist / To occur, to take place / having the state, quality, identity, nature, role, etc.,
To do Do Did To perform an action or job / To make or prepare something

If you need more english – english dictionaries go check Favorite Online Dictionaries page

Verbs

1. See – Saw
2. Come – Came
3. Take – Took
4. Go – Went
5. (I don’t remember the other one we wrote) I’m sorry guys. Please leave me a comment with the missing verb

6. Bring – Brought
7. Buy – Bought
8. Think – Thought
9. Teach – Taught
10. Understand – Understood

11. Sleep -Slept
12. Keep -Kept
13. Lend -Lent
14. Feel -Felt
15. Leave -Left

16. Write – Wrote

17.Wear – Wore

18. Stand – Stood

19.  Speak – Spoke

20.  Sell – Sold

 

21. Begin – Began

22.  Drink – Drank

23. Drive – Drove

24.  Hear – Heard

25.  Run – Ran

 

26.  Sit – Sat

27.  Tell – Told

28.  Swim – Swam

29. Sing . Sang

30.  Know – Knew

31.  Give – Gave

32. Get – Got

33.  Leave – Left

34.  Fly – Flew

35. Find – Found