{"id":961,"date":"2019-02-15T11:15:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T10:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sola-poljane.si\/blog\/anglescina\/?p=961"},"modified":"2019-02-17T18:27:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T17:27:30","slug":"past-simple-tense-pretekli-dovrsni-cas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poljaneang.splet.arnes.si\/?p=961","title":{"rendered":"Past Simple Tense (pretekli dovr\u0161ni \u010das)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>1. Verb TO BE (BITI)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s compare PRESENT and PAST of the verb TO BE:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>Present:<\/em><\/span> I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #333399\"><strong>am <\/strong><\/span><\/span>at school now. \/ You <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #333399\">are<\/span><\/span><\/strong> at school now. \/ She <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #333399\"><strong>is<\/strong><\/span> at school now.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>Past:<\/em><\/span> I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #333399\"><strong>was<\/strong><\/span> at school yesterday. \/ You <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #333399\"><strong>were <\/strong><\/span>at school yesterday. \/ She <span style=\"color: #333399\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">was <\/span><\/strong><\/span>at school yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>2. THERE WAS &#8230; \/ THERE WERE &#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>Present:<\/em><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #333399\"><strong> There is <\/strong><\/span><\/span> someone at the door. \/ <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #333399\"><strong>There are <\/strong><\/span>14 students in our class this year.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>Past<\/em><\/span>: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #333399\"><strong>There was<\/strong><\/span> someone at the door a minute ago. \/ <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #333399\"><strong>There were<\/strong><\/span> 16 students in our class last year.<\/p>\n<p>Now do the following two exercises:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/inglesnanet.com\/grammar\/thtobe1.htm\">There is &#8230; \/ There are &#8230; \/ There was &#8230; \/ There were &#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tolearnenglish.com\/exercises\/exercise-english-2\/exercise-english-21392.php\">one more exercise<\/a> &#8211; similar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.my-english.edu.pl\/index.php?id=66\">Insert WAS or WERE<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montsemorales.com\/gramatica\/therewaswere24.htm\">write THERE WAS \/ THERE WERE<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.englishexercises.org\/makeagame\/viewgame.asp?id=3008\">There was &#8230; \/ There were &#8230; \/ was \/ were<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>3. REGULAR VERBS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We add -ed to the infinitive, e.g. <span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><em><strong>clean &#8211; clean<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">ED<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span>. Do an exercise <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myenglishpages.com\/site_php_files\/grammar-exercise-spelling-ed-forms.php\">here.<\/a> Go on:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ego4u.com\/en\/cram-up\/grammar\/simple-past\/exercises?04\">write positive sentences in past simple<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ego4u.com\/en\/cram-up\/grammar\/simple-past\/exercises?05\">negative sentences<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ego4u.com\/en\/cram-up\/grammar\/simple-past\/exercises?06\">questions<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ego4u.com\/en\/cram-up\/grammar\/simple-past\/exercises?07\">questions with question words<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ego4u.com\/en\/cram-up\/grammar\/simple-past\/exercises\">mixed exercise<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now put the <a href=\"http:\/\/web2.uvcs.uvic.ca\/elc\/studyzone\/330\/grammar\/pasted2.htm\">verbs in the text<\/a> into the right past form &#8211; positive.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>4. REGULAR &amp; IRREGULAR VERBS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.englisch-hilfen.de\/en\/exercises\/tenses\/simple_past_statements2.htm\">positive sentences<\/a> (+)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learn-english-online.org\/Lesson30\/TestIt\/SimplePastNeg.htm\">negative sentences <\/a>(-)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adelescorner.org\/grammar\/past_tense\/past_simple_quests2.html\">WH-questions<\/a> (?)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/web2.uvcs.uvic.ca\/elc\/studyzone\/330\/grammar\/pastnq2.htm\">Yes\/No-questions<\/a> 1, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.englisch-hilfen.de\/en\/exercises\/questions\/simple_past.htm\">2 <\/a>(?)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myenglishpages.com\/site_php_files\/grammar-exercise-simple-past.php\">mixed exercises<\/a> 1, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.englishexercises.org\/makeagame\/viewgame.asp?id=5133\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.englishexercises.org\/makeagame\/viewgame.asp?id=5115\">3<\/a> (+, -, ?)<\/p>\n<p>Finally, do the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ego4u.com\/en\/cram-up\/grammar\/simple-past\/goldilocks\"> exercise \u201cGoldilocks and the three bears\u201d<\/a> in 3 parts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ff00\"><em><strong>There are also many exercises about the IRREGULAR VERBS in the next post.<\/strong><\/em><\/span> <span style=\"color: #00ccff\"><em><strong>Do them and check your knowledge!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Verb TO BE (BITI) Let&#8217;s compare PRESENT and PAST of the verb TO BE: Present: I am at school now. \/ You are at school now. \/ She is at school now. 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