Past Simple

Elementary

A1–A2

Expanding Time and Meaning

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About This Resource

This A1–A2 resource introduces the Past Simple for finished actions and events in a completed past time. It focuses on affirmative use, time expressions, sequences of past events, and the difference between lexical past forms and the past forms of be.

What You’ll Learn

• Use the Past Simple for finished actions and events.
• Connect past statements with finished time expressions.
• Describe a sequence of completed past actions.
• Avoid adding was/were before an ordinary past-tense verb.