SIMPLE PAST (QUÁ KHỨ ĐƠN) a. Với động từ “to be”: Form: (+) S + was/ were + O (-) S + wasn’t/ weren’t + O (?) Was/ were (not) + S + O? b. Với động từ thường Form: (+) S + Ved + O (-) S + didn’t + V + O (?) Did (not) + S + V + O? c. Uses (Cách sử dụng) 1. Diễn tả hành động đã xảy ra và chấm dứt hoàn toàn trong quá khứ. Eg: I saw a movie yesterday. / Last year, I traveled to Japan. 2. Diễn tả một chuỗi các hành động liên tiếp xảy ra trong quá khứ. Ex: I finished worked, walked to the beach and found a nice place to swim. Did you add flour, pour the milk and then add the eggs? d. Advs (Trạng ngữ nhận biết) - Yesterday, ago, last, upon a time, in 1945 (in a specific year in the past....) e. Một số lưu ý đối với thì quá khứ đơn: * Quy tắc thêm “ed” với động từ thường: - Hầu hết động từ được thêm “ed” để biến thành động từ dạng quá khứ Ex: work – worked, visit – visited - Một vài động từ kết thúc bằng phụ âm “y” thì biến “y” thành “i” rồi thêm ‘ed” để biến thành dạng động từ quá khứ Ex: study – studied, carry – carried - Một vài động từ có dạng (1 phụ âm + 1 nguyên âm + 1 phụ âm) thì gấp đôi phụ âm cuối rồi thêm “ed” Ex: plan – planned, fit – fitted PRACTICE Exercise 1: Put the verb in the past simple tense. 1. He (be) ___________only 34 years old when he died. 2. The police (stop)___________ me on my way last night. 3. Mozart (write) ___________more than 600 pieces of music. 4. My mother (not pick) ___________up me the last afternoon. 5. I (go)___________ to the cinema three times last week. 6. I was angry because they (be) ___________late. 7. ___________you (attend)___________ the extra class last night? 8. Last year I (live)___________ in London. 9. My best friend (go)___________ to abroad five days ago. 10. The weather (be) ___________good when we were on holiday.
Exercise 2: Put the verb in the past simple tense.
1. ___________you (go)___________ out yesterday evening? 2. The film wasn’t good, I (not enjoy) ___________it very much. 3. I (meet) ___________Tom and Ann at the airport a few weeks ago. 4. I (buy)___________ that novel on Monday. 5. Liza (get) ___________a good mark in the final exam. 6. Most students (take)___________ no interest in the matter. 7. Newton (come) ___________back to his study after eating his lunch. 8. The second war (finish)___________ 40 years ago. 9. When I was young, I (want)___________ to be a pilot. 10. I was frightened and I (start)___________ to run.
Exercise 3: Give the correct tense form of the verbs
1. He (be) ___________in prison for twenty-seven years last year. 2. Yesterday, I (go) ______ to the restaurant with my ex-husband. 3. We (drive) ______ around the town for 50 minutes to find my dog. 4. When we (arrive) ______ at the restaurant, the place (be) ______ full. 5. The policeman (tell) ______ us to come back in two hours yesterday. 6. My aunt and I slowly (walk) ______ back to the house last night. 7. We (see) ______ a small grocery store three week ago. 8. We (stop) in the grocery store and (buy) ______ some bread last month. 9. I (not go) ______ to office last Monday. 10. she (get) ______ married a few months ago?
Exercise 4: Give the correct tense form of the verbs
1. What _____you (do) ___________last night? 2. I (love)___________ him but no more now. 3. Yesterday, I (get) ___________up at 6 and (have)___________ breakfast at 6.30. 4. They (not agree)___________ to the deal of that project. 5. They (be) ___________in London from Monday to Thursday of last week. 6. I (be)___________a student Doan Thi Diem School in 1998. 7. I (study) ___________French when I was a child. 8. He (like)___________ grain before. 9. All the students (read) ___________the text carefully last week. 10. His grandfather (receive) ___________a letter from his family this morning.
Exercise 5: Give the correct tense form of the verbs
1. How curious! I (be) ___________there too. 2. ___________they (be) busy taking care of their children? 3. Professor Smiths (teach) ___________another class last year. 4. The rain (stop)___________ in the middle of the noon. 5. My sister (spend)___________ her two-week holiday in Nha Trang. 6. My father (set)___________ up that company in 1990. 7. He (borrow)___________ a lot of money to buy a new car a few days ago. 8. Yesterday, I (have)_____ presentation about my company’s new product in Royal city. 9. He (sit) ___________down in a chair before I did. 10. Someone (break) ___________into my house last night. Exercise 5: Choose the best answer. Exercise 6: Find and correct the mistakes. 1. My mother don’t went shopping last Sunday. 2. My mother buyed lots of vegetable at this market. 3. The storm did go into my town a few hours ago. 4. I were not brave enough to face the problem. 5. The orchestra begun playing at the concert. 6. I got a good mark at the final exam in the next week. 7. It rain heavily during the day off. 8. They didn’t considerd who is more talented. 9. Do you go out last night? 10. I crossed a few minutes the road to catch my cat.
Exercise 7: Find and correct the mistakes.
1. A student taken some document into room yesterday. 2. Where you did go? 3. He did not called me before the meeting. 4. My mother not allow me to go out after 9p.m 5. He last year graduated. 6. The children are frightened because it got dark. 7. Last month, I is lost my shoes. 8. I was not late because I stayed up late last night. 9. This Novel were once very popular but nobody reads it now. 10. Did how you get to school this morning?