Positive form — Regular verbs

Lastspring/summer/autumn/winter; three hours two months ago

Monday /Tuesday, etc. five days a year

Jane moved into a new flat last week. He passed all his exams two months

ago.

Long ago Long ago, people learned to make musical instruments.

(Many) years later. Years later people learned to make more elaborate ones.

Many years ago Many years ago my mother taught me to play the piano.

After that After that I started taking piano classes with a professional

pianist.

(Soon) afterwards Soon afterwards I played the piano in many piano

performances.

In those days In those days piano performances were quite popular.

Then Then I gave up playing music.

At that time At that time I was rather keen on sports.

Positive form — Regular verbs

I watch television every evening. (present simple)

I watched television yesterday evening. (past simple)

watched is the past simple:

I/we /you /they he/she/it

watched

■ The past simple is often -ed. For example:

work –> worked clean –> cleaned start –> started

stay –> stayed live –> lived dance –> danced

These verbs are regular verbs.

- I clean my teeth every morning. This morning I cleaned my teeth.

- Terry worked in a bank from 1981 to 1986.

- Yesterday it rained all morning. It stopped at lunchtime.

- We enjoyed the party last Might. We danced a lot and talked to a lot of people. The party finished at midnight.

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