Talking About the Past: English Grammar Lesson

Past tense grammar lesson using current events A1

Let us practice the past tense with news from this week. In English, we add -ed to regular verbs: 'walk → walked', 'visit → visited', 'want → wanted'. But some verbs are irregular: 'go → went', 'come → came', 'meet → met', 'say → said'. Examples from this week's news: France and Germany VISITED Paris for the G7 meeting. Important people MET at an old building. They TALKED about the war in Iran. The baby monkey WAS born in France. Italy PLAYED football. They SCORED two goals. Lewandowski WANTED to go to the World Cup. Energy prices WENT up this month. Now you try: write three sentences about the news using past tense verbs.