SIMPLE PAST.

The "simple past" is used to talk about an action that ended in a time before the current one. The duration is not relevant. The time in which the action takes place can be the recent past or the distant past.

In the simple past there are regular verbs and irregular verbs.

The "simple past" is used to refer to when something happened, so it is associated with certain temporary expressions that indicate:

• A certain times: last week, when i was a child, yesterday, sex weeks ago.

for example:

• Yesterday, i arrived in Geneva
• We saw a good film last week
• She finished he work atseven o´clock
• I went to the theatre last night

• On indeterminate time: the other day, ages ago, a long time ago people lived in caves a long time ago.

for example:

• She played the piano when she was a chold

• FORM

Formation of the "simple past" with regular verbs

AFFIRMATIVE
subject	+ raíz + ed
I	skipped.
NEGATIVE
subject	+ did not	+ infinitivo sin to
They	didn't	go.
INTERROGATIVE
Did	+ subject	+ infinitive without to
Did	she	arrive?

"Simple past" of the verbs to be, to have, to do.

subject	Verb
	Be	Have	Do
I	was	had	did
You	were	had	did
He/She/It	was	had	did
We	were	had	did
You	were	had	did
They	were	had	did

Examples of simple past 

1. Affirmative

• I was in Japan last year
• She had a headache yesterday.

2. Negative

• We didn't have time to visit the Eiffel Tower.
• We didn't do our exercises this morning.

3.Interrogative

• Did you have a bicycle when you were young?
• Did you do much climbing in Switzerland?