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Hello
again and welcome back to 'English Today' for
some more English lessons.
Japan? Now that's an interesting destination,
isn't it?
Have you ever been there?
No, neither have l, I'd love to go.
Now in this lesson I'd like to do some revision
about the simple past irregular verbs, and l
want to do a type of quiz with you, it's very
simple, just to see if you can remember the
irregular verbs.
l will say something, a phrase in the positive
form in the past, let me give you an example.
'l said that yesterday', now you have to find
the infinitive of the past tense and formulate
the question, so 'l said that yesterday', what's
the question?
'What' remember, yeah the auxiliary for the
simple past is 'did',
'What did l...' now 'said' is the past tense
of what?
'Say', exactly, so
'What did l say yesterday?'
Alright? That's the quiz.
l say the positive form, you make the question
form, alright?
Let's start: 'l sold it yesterday', 'l sold
it yesterday', 'When, when did l sell it?' 'Sell',
'sold'.
Next one, 'l met him on Monday', 'l met him
on Monday', 'met' so 'When...', 'When did l
meet him?' 'When did l meet him?' very good.
Next one 'l came by train', 'l came by train',
'How did l come' alright? 'How did l come' very
good.
Next one 'l had a problem', 'l had a problem'
be careful 'l had a problem', 'What problem
did you have?' remember 'have' always takes
the auxiliary in the past tense and in the present
tense, so 'What problem did you have?' great!
Next one 'l bought it in England', 'l bought
it in England', 'Where did you buy' very good
'Where did you buy it?' great!
Next one 'l found it on the bus', 'l found it
on the bus', 'Where did you find', 'find, found',
'Where did you find it?' good.
Next 'l thought it was good', 'l thought it
was good', 'What did you think about it?', 'think,
thought', 'What did you think about it?', great.
Next one 'He was at home', 'He was at home',
'Where' be careful, 'was', the verb 'to be'
remember?
An exception 'Where did he be?'
No, no you can't use the auxiliary with the
verb 'to be', so?
'He was at home', 'Where was he?', ok?
So don't forget that, the verb 'to be' is an
exception, doesn't use auxiliaries, right.
Next one 'l flew by British Airways', Flew...
'How... did you fly?'.
'l saw the film yesterday', 'l saw' S-A-W 'the
film yesterday',
'When did you see the film?', great, we're getting
good. 'l drank some wine', 'What did you drink?',
and the last one 'l took an aspirin', 'l took'
T-O-O-K 'l took an aspirin', 'What did you take?'
fabulous!
Let's go and look at those on the board now
quickly, just to remind you also of the spelling,
alright?
So 'l said that yesterday', 'What did you say?',
'said', infinitive, 'say'.
'l sold it yesterday', 'When did you sell it?'.
'l met him on Monday', 'When did you meet him?'.
'l came by train', 'How did you come?'.
'l had a problem', 'What problem did you have?'.
'l bought it in England', 'Where did you buy
it?'.
'l found it on the bus', 'Where did you find
it?'.
'l thought it was good', 'What did you think
about it?'.
'He was at home', 'Where was he?', no, no auxiliary.
'l flew by British Airways', 'How did you fly?'.
'l saw the film yesterday', 'What did you see?'.
'l drank some wine', 'What did you drink?' and
'l took an aspirin', 'What did you take?', great!
You see it's really just a question of practice,
with the irregular past tense verbs it's a question
of memory and familiarizing yourself with them,
it will come with practice ok?
Great, so see you in the next lesson, bye.
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