Hello!

I was glad to see the four of you in class. Let's how many more times we get it. Well there are only a couple of weeks left.

Last week we first worked on asking questions about various people's daily life, using, of course, the Persent Simple tense of the verb and using frequency adverbs: usually, often, sometimes, hardly ever, always.

Example:

What time does Judy usually go to work?

In our second class I explained how to make the Simple Past. I insist that it is easy even if we have to learn all those irregular verbs.

Remember: regular verbs make the past by adding the ending -ed

Talk    talked

Play     played

Listen  listened

Watch  watched

Cook    cooked

Some of them, the ones that end with a -t or -d sound add a syllable in the past.

Want   wanted

Paint    painted

Decide  decided

The past form of irregular verbs is different from the infinitive and you have to study it. Some examples are:

Read      read

Go         went

Buy       bought.

Eat        ate

To make questions we use an auxiliary, just like you do with the Present Simple, but this time the auxiliary is did, the past form of the verb to do.
Example:

Did you eat lentils yesterday?

Did she sing that song in the concert? ( As you can see, the 3rd person singular is just like the other ones, so it's easier than the Present).

We also studied the prepositions on, in and at to talk about units of time. On for days, in for years, months, weeks, seasons, at for time.