1、定义：表示过去某个时间里发生的动作或存在的状态。常和表示过去的时间状语连用，
如：a moment ago，just now，yesterday，last week，this morning等。
如：My brother often went to school by bike last term.
The watch was beside the diary a moment ago.
I watched the moon and ate the moon cakes last Mid-Autumn Festival.
Jim went to the supermarket yesterday.
2、构成：主语＋动词的过去式＋其他
3、动词过去式的变化规则：
① 一般在动词原形末尾加ed
如：play-played，listen-listened，look-looked
② 结尾是e的动词，加d
如：live-lived，like-liked，taste-tasted
③ 辅音字母＋y结尾的动词，变y为i，再加ed
如：study-studied，carry-carried，cry-cried
④ 末尾只有一个辅音字母的重读闭音节词，双写这个辅音字母，再加ed
如：stop-stopped，plan-planned
⑤ 不规则变化 如：
| am/is-was | sit-sat | give-gave | eat-ate |
| are-were | tell-told | read-read | fly-flew |
| have/has-had | see-saw | buy-bought | meet-met |
| do-did | get-got | come-came | put-put |
| go-went | make-made | draw-drew | run-ran |
| say-said | sing-sang | swim-swam | take-took |
4、一般过去时的句型转换
| 肯定句 | 否定句 | 一般疑问句及回答 |
| He watched TV yesterday. | He didn’t watch TV yesterday. |
—Did he watch TV yesterday?
—Yes, he did. / No, he didn’t.
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| They played games just now. | They didn’t play games just now. |
— Did they play games just now?
—Yes, they did. / No, they didn’t.
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