Basic English Grammar - Meeting 4

BASIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR MEETING #4

Hery Yanto TheEnglish 3.0 Series, Summer 2012

July 2, 2012

AGENDA

Part ILanguage Learning & Social Networking

Part 2Simple Past Tense

PART ILANGUAGE

LEARNING & SOCIAL NETWORKING

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PART IISIMPLE PAST TENSE

READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGEAN EXAMPLE OF HOW PAST TENSE IS USED

One day last summer, my friend Rahim Khan called from Pakistan. He asked me to come see him. Standing in the kitchen with the receiver to my ear, I knew it wasn’t just Rahim Khan on the line. It was my past of unatoned sins. After I hung up, I went for a walk along Spreckels Lake on the northern edge of Golden Gate Park. The early-afternoon sun sparkled on the water where dozens of miniature boats sailed, propelled by a crisp breeze. Then I glanced up and saw a pair of kites, red with long blue tails, soaring in the sky. They danced high above the trees on the west end of the park, over the windmills, floating side by side like a pair of eyes looking down on San Francisco, the city I now call home. And suddenly Hassan’s voice whispered in my head: For you, a thousand times over. Hassan the harelipped kite runner. (Khaled Hosseini, 2003, The Kite Runner)

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REGULAR AND IRREGULAR VERBS

Base Form Past Form

Send Sent

Eat Ate

Go Went

Drink Drank

Become Became

Write Wrote

Take Took

Build Built

Base Form Past Form

Want Wanted

Subtract Subtracted

Hug Hugged

Occur Occurred

Listen Listened

Enjoy Enjoyed

Offer Offered

Die Died

USE DICTIONARY TO CHECK THE PAST FORM OF THESE VERBS

Base Form Past Form

Arise

Bite

Catch

Fight

Grow

Lie

Pay

Wear

Base Form Past Form

Fix

Rain

Open

Study

Wait

Decide

Cook

Charge

CHECK YOUR ANSWER

Base Form Past Form

Arise Arose

Bite Bit

Catch Caught

Fight Fought

Grow Grew

Lie Lay

Pay Paid

Wear Wore

Base Form Past Form

Fix Fixed

Rain Rained

Open Opened

Study Studied

Wait Waited

Decide Decided

Cook Cooked

Charge Charged

List of English Irregular Verbs

EXAMPLES

• I sold my bicycle yesterday, and bought this statue with the money.

• The Wright brothers built their plane in their bicycle shop.

• During the call students got a live view of the research field.

• He believed that one day it would possible to go to Europe.

• I tried hard to bury the memory.

• Huang Chu became interested in everything about plants when he was a child.

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TRY THIS CHALLENGE

• None of the bass instrument _____until the Renaissance.

• In 1801, Joseph Marie Jacquard _____ an improvement to the textile loom by introducing a series of punched paper cards.

• After graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in economic, Shahrukh Khan ______ his career appearing in theatre and several television serials.

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CHECK YOUR ANSWER

• None of the bass instrument existed until the Renaissance.

• In 1801, Joseph Marie Jacquard made an improvement to the textile loom by introducing a series of punched paper cards.

• After graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in economic, Shahrukh Khan started his career appearing in theatre and several television serials.

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SIMPLE PAST TENSE

Verb beI, he, she, it + was

You, we, they + were

• I was a teacher.• He was my manager two years

ago.• She was a popular politician in the

60s.• It was in 1942, I left the country.

• You were in class yesterday.• We were in the cinema last night.• They were out of town that time. Photo used from 3cursa

TRY THIS CHALLENGE

• Steve jobs ___ a businessman, designer, and inventor.

• Prior to Songtsan Gampo, the kings of Tibet ____ more mythological than factual.

• The series, Three Rivers Medical Drama, ____ set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at a fictional hospital specializing in transplants.

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CHECK YOUR ANSWER

• Steve jobs was a businessman, designer, and inventor.

• Prior to Songtsan Gampo, the kings of Tibet were more mythological than factual.

• The series, Three Rivers Medical Drama, was set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at a fictional hospital specializing in transplants.

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SUMMARY

Language Learning & Social Networking

• LiveMocha• eNotes• Mixxer• Facebook Group• Twitter

Simple Past Tense

• Regular & Irregular Verb• Simple Past: Verb -Be

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