Level A1

Past Simple

Things that already happened: -ed for most verbs, special forms for some.

Yesterday we visited our grandma.

Look: visited. It's visit, plus E-D.

Forms

• visit → visited · play → played — yesterday, last week: most verbs + ed
• go → went · see → saw · eat → ate — some verbs change
• I / you / he / she / it / we / they → went — for action words, it's the same with I, you, he, she, we, they

A common mistake

Wrong: She goed to school.

Right: She went to school.

Go is a special verb, so we don't add E-D. We say: She went to school.

More examples

We played football after school.

Play, played.

She went to the beach last summer.

Go, went.