Simple Past Tense

Grade 4

• Digunakan untuk menunjukkan kegiatan yang terjadi pada masa lalu dan sekarang tidak terjadi lagi.

• Keterangan waktu yang sering digunakan:– just now = baru

saja– yesterday = kemarin– Last… (last week, last month, last year) = … lalu– … ago (two days ago, two weeks ago, ten years ago) = … lalu

Simple Past Tense

Tanpa kata kerja:I/She/He/It + was + …

We/You/They + were + …

• I was at home alone last night.• It was too late.• We were wet because of the rain.• They were here just now.

Tanpa kata kerja:I/She/He/It + was + not + …

We/You/They + were + not + …

• She was not a librarian when she was young.• We were not at school yesterday.

Tanpa kata kerja:

Was + I/she/he/it + …Were + we/you/they + …

• Was she an actress when she was young?• Were they here last night?

Dengan kata kerja:

• I had an egg for breakfast this morning.

I/We/You/She/He/They/It + Verb 2

• They did not watch the soccer match last night.

I/We/You/She/He/They/It + did not + Verb 1

Did + I/we/you/she/he/they/it + Verb 1 ?• Did you walk to school this morning?

Dengan kata kerja:

Verb 1 Verb 2study studiedwatch watchedwalk walked

Verb 1 Verb 2read readwrite wrotesit sathas had

IRREGULARREGULAR

Verb 2Regular = teratur Verb 1 + -ed

Irregular = tidak teratur bentuknya berubah

1. She _______ (bake) a cake for her father’s birthday yesterday.

2. Did he _________ (buy) the book?

3. Sorry, he didn’t ________ (tell) me about it.

4. The singer _________ (give) his fans T-shirts just now.

5. I ___________ (write) a poem this morning.

6. Did you _________ (have) for breakfast this morning?

baked

tell

buy

gave

have

wrote

Read this chant.Cinderella dressed in red.What time did you go to bed?

Now, play it with your classmates. Change “Cinderella” with a friend’s name.Student A : Cinderella dressed in red.

What time did you go to bed?Student B: I went to bed at 7 p.m. (8 p.m./9 p.m./etc.)