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The Simple Past is used to talk about completed actions in the past.
🔹 Regular verbs — ajouter -ED :
• walk → walked (marcher → a marché)
• play → played
• study → studied (y → ied)
• live → lived (e final → juste -d)
🔹 Irregular verbs (à mémoriser) :
• go → went (aller)
• come → came (venir)
• eat → ate (manger)
• have → had (avoir)
• see → saw (voir)
• do → did (faire)
• say → said (dire)
• write → wrote (écrire)
• read → read (lire — même forme, prononciation change)
• get → got (obtenir / devenir)
🔹 Forme négative :
• Subject + did not (didn't) + verb (base form)
Example: I didn't go to school yesterday.
🔹 Forme interrogative :
• Did + subject + verb (base form)?
Example: Did you eat lunch?
Answer: Yes, I did. / No, I didn't.
📝 Exemples :
• Yesterday, I went to school and I studied English. (Hier, je suis allé à l'école et j'ai étudié l'anglais.)
• She ate rice for lunch. (Elle a mangé du riz pour le déjeuner.)
• We didn't watch TV last night. (Nous n'avons pas regardé la TV hier soir.)
• Did you see the film? — Yes, I did! (As-tu vu le film ? — Oui !)
• He wrote a letter to his friend. (Il a écrit une lettre à son ami.)
💡 Marqueurs de temps du Simple Past :
yesterday (hier), last week (la semaine dernière), last year (l'année dernière),
ago (il y a — Ex: two days ago), in 2020, once upon a time (il était une fois)
Write the Simple Past: I ___ (go) to the market yesterday.
Correction
I went to the market yesterday.
Make negative: She played football last Sunday. → She ___
Correction
She didn't play football last Sunday.
Give the past forms: eat, see, write, go, have
Correction
ate, saw, wrote, went, had
Translate: Hier, je n'ai pas fait mes devoirs. J'ai regardé la télévision.
Correction
Yesterday, I didn't do my homework. I watched television.
Write 3 sentences about what you did last weekend.
Correction
Example: Last Saturday, I woke up late. I played with my friends. We ate lunch together.