Ch 1
Past Simple: Telling a Story
Where did you go? · two days ago · bought, sang, wrote · first, then
At A1 you learned the past simple: worked, went, didn't go, Did you go? At A2 you ask for details, say when, and tell a story in order.
Where did you go on holiday?
We went to Rome two years ago.
Where / When / What / Who / How / Why + did + you + verb?
Where
Where did you stay? — In a small hotel.
What
What did you eat? — Pizza, every day!
How long
How long did you stay? — A week.
After did, the verb is in the base form: Where did you go? (not went)
ago
two days ago · a long time ago
last
last night · last week · last summer
Not the last week or before two days: last week, two days ago.
-ought / -aught
buy → bought · think → thought · bring → brought · catch → caught
i → a
sing → sang · swim → swam · drink → drank · begin → began
i → o
write → wrote · ride → rode · drive → drove
-ew
fly → flew · know → knew · grow → grew · throw → threw
first
First, we took a taxi to the station.
then
Then we caught the train.
after that
After that, we found our hotel.
in the end
In the end, we were tired but happy.
I was born in 2010.
born → always was / were born.
Where did you went?
→
Where did you go?
after did → base form
I saw him before two days.
→
I saw him two days ago.
time + ago
We went there the last summer.
→
We went there last summer.
no the before last
I born in 2009.
→
I was born in 2009.
was / were born
Tell your partner about your last holiday or weekend.
1
Where did you go, and who did you go with?
2
When was it? Use ago or last.
3
What did you eat? What did you buy?
4
Tell it in order: first, then, after that, in the end.
Recap
wh- question
Where did you + verb?
Where did you stay?
ago
time + ago
three days ago
last
last + week / night / year
last summer
irregular groups
bought · sang · wrote · flew
I bought a map.
story order
first · then · after that · in the end
Then we caught the train.
born
was / were born
I was born in 2010.