1. Isabel bought a lot of things for Paco (past simple affirmative)

Caso práctico

The Simple Past Tense: Isabel went shopping

  

Isabel went shopping on her own. She bought a lot of things for Paco as she thought that her son needed some useful and necessary articles for his journey. She didn't want to worry Paco, so Isabel decided to do some shopping.
 
 
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Isabel saw a lot of useful stuff for Paco, but she knew she could not buy so many things.

Paco wanted to take a lot of articles with him, although he knewthat he could buy anything he would need anywhere.

In the end, he changed his mind and he tried to take just a few things, only the most necessary ones.

As Paco likes video recording and photography a lot, of course he took his two cameras , but he wasn't sure about taking his laptop with him.

 Identify all the simple past affirmative forms you can find in the text, either regular or irregular ones.

Ejercicio Resuelto

went to need
bought to know
thought to have
needed to want
decided to buy
saw to go
wanted to try
knew to think
changed to take
tried to see
liked to decide
took to change
had to like

Match the Simple Past forms on the left with their infinitive verbs on the right.

Comprueba lo aprendido

Pregunta

The Simple Past affirmative form is formed:

Respuestas

by adding -ed to the main verb, like wanted (< to want).

by adding -ing to the main verb.

Retroalimentación

Pregunta

We can distinguish an irregular verb:

Respuestas

because it ends in -ed.

We can't distinguish it by its form.

Retroalimentación

Curiosidad

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Do you know the difference between England and Britain?

Three countries make up Great Britain: England, Scotland and Wales. So England is a part of Great Britain, and a Scotsman is British, too. A person born in Wales is Welsh, and they are British, too. Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom.
 
 

So the UK is made up of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the last of which is not a part of Great Britain. The formal name of the country is the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”, but in everyday speech Britain is often used to mean the UK, though, as you have seen, this is not perfectly correct.

 
The word “great” was added to “Britain” several hundred years ago, in the Middle Ages, when the English kings had lands in what is now France, and a certain part of it was called Britanny. To avoid confusion, they added the word “great” to the name of the land which was larger.

 
 

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In order to check you understand the Simple Past Tense, have a look here.

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