The Past Simple Tense.

1. Формы образования.

	I, You, He, She, They, We	lived taught	in St. Petersburg	last year.
	I, You He, She, They, We	did not live (didn’t) teach
	Did	you, he, she, they	live teach	in St. Petersburg	last year?
Where	did	you	live teach		last year?
When	did	you	live teach	in St. Petersburg?
Who			lived taught	in St. Petersburg	last year?

2. The Past Simple Tense обозначает действие, имевшее место в прошлом. Оно употребляется для выражения последовательно совершавшихся обычных, повторяющихся действий в прошлом.

Yesterday. Tom came to the laboratory at 8 and at once began to work. Вчера Том пришел в лабораторию в 8 и сразу начал работать.

3. Для предложений с глаголами в Past Simple Tense характерны следующие обстоятельства времени:

yesterday –вчера

the day before yesterday – позавчера

yesterday morning (evening, afternoon) – вчера утром (вечером, днем)

last week (month, year) – на прошлой неделе (в прошлом месяце, году)

two days (weeks, years) ago – два дня (две недели, два года) назад

in 1952 - в 1952 году.

Exercise1.

Read the sentences about the present and make up the sentences about the past.

Pattern: Tom usually gets up at 7.30. Yesterday morning he got up at 6.30

because he wanted to do some more things.

1. I usually get up early. Yesterday ……

2. I usually have a sandwich and a cup of coffee for breakfast. Yesterday….

3. It usually takes me 15 minutes to get to the university. But yesterday ……

4. I always come in time. But yesterday...

5. We usually have 4 classes. Yesterday …

6. I usually return home at 3 p.m. Yesterday …

7. I watch video in the evening. Yesterday…

8. I go to bed late. But yesterday…

Exercise 2.

The detective alibi story.

The police believe that a certain man took part in a robbery in London last weekend. He tells them that he was not in London at the weekend. His alibi is that he was in Scotland. Fill in the missing word. Remember that the story took place in the past.

Use the following verbs: to travel, to see, to fly, to hire, to return, to cost, to buy, to stay, to have, to catch, to arrive, to pay, to drive, to go.

On Friday I … by tube to Heathrow Airport. I... some magazines at the airport. I then … to Edinburgh on a British Airways flight. I … dinner at the Taj Mahal restaurant in Edinburgh. After dinner I … a film at the Odeon cinema. My ticket … $.5.00.

Then I … at the Cumberland hotel in room 546. On Sunday morning I … a car and … to Sf Andrews. I …a deposit of $20.00. In the afternoon I … fishing. In the evening I … to Edinburgh. On Sunday morning I … the 11.40 train to London. I … back in London at 17.50.

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