LISTENING COMPREHENSION

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  Listen carefully and choose the best answer (a), (b), (c), or (d) from the conversation you hear. It tells   about inviting someone to go somewhere. 1.    What is Ismail complaining about? a. Homework                                                 c. Loads of Homework b. School                                                        d. About Cinema 2.    Does Ismail accept the invitation from Jack is going to the Cinema? a. Yes, he does                                               c. No, he don’t b. No, he doesn’t                                            d. Yes, he do 3.    How many people are going to the Cinema? a. 5                                                                 c. 4 b. 3                                                                 d. 2 4.    Where does Jack invite Ismail to go? a. to the Mall                                                  c. to the School b. to the Cinema                                            d. to the Friend’s house 5.   

Simple Past Tense Verbal

 Simple Past Tense Berdasarkan Polanya

A. Pengertian 

Simple past tense adalah kalimat yang digunakan untuk mengungkapkan suatu kejadian yang terjadi di masa lampau dan selesai atau berakhir di masa lampau juga. Jadi, past tense digunakan apabila kamu bercerita di masa sekarang tentang aktivitas masa lalu. Simple Past Tense (verbal), predikat yang digunakan berupa kata kerja bentuk ke 2 atau irregular verb (kata kerja tidak beraturan) dan regular verb (kata kerja beraturan).

 Generally, we use Past Simple to talk about activities or situations that began and ended in the past.  (e.g. yesterday, last night, two days ago, in 2021, etc).

B. Fungsi

Fungsi Simple Pat tense yaitu menjelaskan aktivitas atau kejadian di masa lampau atau telah selesai.

C. Rumus Nominal

Most past simple verb are often -ed (regular verb). Jadi Rumus dasar “S + Verb 2 + O/C”.

D. Contoh   Nominal

  • Mary stayed at home yesterday morning.
  • We enjoyed the party last week. We danced a lot and the party finished at midnight.
  • I usually get up early but this morning I got up at 9.30.
  • We did a lot of work yesterday. 

 Spelling of regular past simple forms:

Most verbs:

Add –ed infinitive

work

worked

help

helped

stay

stayed

Verbs ending consonant + y:

Change y to I and add -ed

cry

cried

try

tried

study

studied

Verbs ending in –e:

Add –d to infinitive

hope

hoped

decide

decided

Others:

plan

planned

shop

shopped

Remember some verbs are irregular (kata kerja tidak beraturan). The past simple is not –ed, for example:

Verb 1

Verb 2

Verb 1

Verb 2

Verb 1

Verb 2

Begin

Began

Fall

Fell

Leave

Left

Break

Broke

Find

Found

Lose

Lost

Build

Built

Fly

Flew

Make

Made

Bring

Brought

Forget

Forgot

Meet

Met

Buy

Bought

Get

Got

Pay

Paid

Catch

Caught

Give

Gave

Put

Put

Come

Came

Go

Went

Ring

Rang

Drink

Drank

Have

Had

Say

Said

Eat

Ate

Know

knew

See

  Saw



Complete the sentences. Use one of these verbs in the past simple.






1.    I ……….my teeth three times yesterday.

2.      It was hot in the room, so I………….the window.

3.      The concert ……at 7.30 and ……….at 10 o’clock.

4.      When I was a child, I …………to be a doctor.

5.      The accident ………………..last Sunday afternoon.

6.      It’s a nice day today but yesterday it ……………..all day.

7.      We ………………our holiday last year. We ………….at a very nice place. 

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