Hello students welcome back to the English Danny Channel. I'm teacher Sarah
and today I'm going to help you learn how to talk about the past in English
using the simple past verb tense let's get started talking about the past is
something that we do every day and for the most basic form of talking
about the past we use the simple past verb tense we use the simple past to
talk about many kinds of past events like finished actions and repeated
events simple past is very common in storytelling - it shorts the simple past
is used to talk about actions that were completed in a time before now we use
the simple past to answer questions like what did you do yesterday what did you
do yesterday hmm I studied English I played computer games and I talked to
my friend in his answers we see regular simple past verbs like studied played
and taught most regular simple past verbs are formed like this subject +
verb + e D for example I play I walked I talked Island there is some variation in
the way we use the e d ending when spelling past tense perks if a verb ends
in E already like hope or like we just add D for example I hoped and I liked if
the verb ends in one stressed vowel and one consonant except W or Y like shop
plan or regret double the consonant Edie for example I shocked I plant or I
regret it finally if a verb ends in Y like hurry
cry or study change the Y to I and at Edie
for example I've hurried I cried or I started using these rules let's take a
look at some common regular verbs and a simple sentence using each in the past
tense want want it I wanted to eat breakfast
help helped she helped me do my homework talk talked
we talked for hours hope hoped I hoped the text would be
easy loved loved I loved the movie stopped stopped the music stopped shop
shot we shopped all day plan plant we planned a vacation study studies I
studied yesterday cry cry the children cried now that you've seen
some examples of regular past verbs it is important to note that the Edie
ending is not always pronounced the same as you may have noticed there are three
main ways that you can say Edie - and it first the Edie ending is pronounced good
when it is after vowels AEIOU and sometimes y and voiced consonants except
deep voiced consonants include these sounds but the the jaw Chuck da ma nut
and love for example right which ends in why try clothes
which ends in the voiced th clothed use which ends in the zip sound used fail
which ends in the left sound failed second the easy ending sounds like too
after unvoiced consonants accepts T unvoiced consonants include these sounds
for example stopped stopped laugh left watch watched work worked pass passed
finally if a verb ends in a duck or tough sound the IDI ending sounds like
it for example and ended start started many verbs in English follow the regular
simple past pattern however there are also many irregular simple past verbs
these verbs do not follow the verb plus Edie form here are some of the most
common irregular verbs for a full list of irregular verbs check the link in the
description below go went I went home do did she did it have hat we had a good
time bye but you bought a nice jacket
come Kate winter came early this year eat ate I ate dinner already
take took he took a picture get got I got
sic say said she said it's okay teach taught I taught you a lesson today
right wrote I wrote a poem think thought I thought so again for a complete list
of English irregular verbs be sure to check the link in the description below
okay students that's it for today's lesson on the simple past did you learn
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