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The simple past expresses an action in the past taking place once, never, several times. It can also be used for actions taking place one after another or in the middle of another action. Grammaticaly speaking is a completed action in the past in a definite moment.

Example. I cleaned my bedroom yesterday.

She wrote a letter to her boyfriend the last week.

Videos

Here you can check some videos about pronunciation of the simple past

Lists of verbs

Estructure of the simple past, interrogative and negative forms

Extensive list of irregular verbs

List of regular verbs ending with -ed

Examples

"Last year I took my exams."

"I got married in 1992."

It can be used to describe events that happened over a period of time in the past but not now.

"I lived in South Africa for two years."

The simple past tense is also used to talk about habitual or repeated actions that took place in the past.

"When I was a child we always went to the seaside on bank holidays."

Definitions

Use the Simple Past to express the idea that an action started and finished at a specific time in the past. Sometimes, the speaker may not actually mention the specific time, but they do have one specific time in mind.

El Pasado Simple es un tiempo verbal que se utiliza para describir acciones que han sucedido en un tiempo anterior y que ya han finalizado.

The simple past tense is used to talk about actions that happened at a specific time in the past. You state when it happened using a time adverb.

Exercise 1

Activity 1 Match the verbs with their correct form of the simple past

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Present and Past verbs

Matching exercise

Match the items on the right with the correct past tense of the verbs given

run
eat
see
play
ask
jump
speak
travel
buy
walk

Exercise 2

Activity 2 Repeat after listening the right pronunciation in the next video