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This podcast discusses the simple present and simple past tenses of regular verbs in English. [1] It provides examples of common regular verbs like "stay, clean, move" in the present and past tense forms. [2] The podcast then practices conjugating those verbs in the third person singular and in the simple past and present perfect forms. [3] Additional regular verbs like "paint, contribute, carry" are introduced and similarly conjugated in exercises for listeners to practice.
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- 1. 1 “QualityTime-ESL” presents… QT-ESL Podcast No. 3 “The Simple Present and Simple Past” Hi! I’m Marianne Raynaud, and I’m here to help you improve your level of spoken English. Today we will be working on “the simple present and simple past”. If you don’t know the meaning of the verbs we are using, stop and look them up in your dictionary before you begin. The first group of verbs we will be using today are: Stay Believe Clean Try Move Prepare Let us work on the present tense in the third person singular: “He”. Remember to pronounce the last “s” correctly. I mean <s> as in <stays>. Repeat <stays>. Listen to the examples: I say: I stay You say: He cleans You say: He stays I say: I move I say: I clean You say: He moves Now you go on in the same way. Be sure to speak BEFORE I give the right answer. I stay I believe He stays He believes I clean I try He cleans He tries I move I prepare He moves He prepares The simple past forms of these verbs are regular. You add “ed”, which you pronounce <d>. Repeat <d>. Listen and repeat: Stay, stayed Believe, believed Clean, cleaned Try, tried Move, moved Prepare, prepared Copyright QualityTime-ESL
- 2. 2 QT-ESL Podcast No. 3 The verb “Simple present and Simple Past” (Cont.) Now listen to the examples. Remember the simple past and the present perfect forms of these verbs are regular. You just add “ed”, which you pronounce <d>. I say: I stay You say: I cleaned, I have cleaned You say: I stayed, I have stayed I say: I move I say: I clean You say: I moved, I have moved Now you do it. Remember to speak BEFORE I give the right answer. I stay I believe I stayed, I have stayed I believed, I have believed I clean I try I cleaned, I have cleaned I tried, I have tried I move I prepare, I moved, I have moved I prepared, I have prepared Now let us try the same thing with a different group of verbs. Listen and repeat. Paint Contribute Carry Hate Taste Sort Let us first work on the present tense in the third person singular with “she”. Now listen to the examples. I say: I paint I say: I hate I say: I contribute You say: She paints You say: She hates You say: She contributes Now you do the same thing. Be sure to speak BEFORE I give the right answer. I paint I contribute I carry She paints She contributes She carries I hate I taste I sort She hates She tastes She sorts The simple past forms of these verbs are regular. You just add “ed” or “d”, but you pronounce the ending <id>. Repeat <id>. This is the case of verbs ending in “t”, “d” “te” or “de”. Listen and repeat. Paint, painted Contribute, contributed Carry, carried Hate, hated Taste, tasted Sort, sorted Remember the simple past and the present perfect forms of these verbs are regular. You just add “ed” or “d”, but you pronounce the ending <id>. Repeat <id>.Listen to the examples. I say: I paint I say: I contribute You say: I painted, I have painted You say: I contributed, I have contributed Copyright QualityTime-ESL
- 3. 3 QT-ESL Podcast No. 3 The verb “Simple present and Simple Past” (Cont.) Now you go on in the same way. I paint I taste I painted, I have painted I tasted, I have tasted I contribute I carry, I contributed, I have contributed I carried, I have carried I hate I sort, I hated, I have hated I sorted, I have sorted Now let us give the simple past of the verbs from both these groups. Here is the example. I say: stay You say: I painted, I have painted You say: I stayed, I have stayed I say: hate I say: I paint You say: I hated, I have hated Now you do same thing. Be sure to speak BEFORE I give the right answer. I stay I taste I stayed, I have stayed I tasted, I have tasted I paint I believe I painted, I have painted I believed, I have believed I hate I carry I hated, I have hated I carried, I have carried I clean I try I cleaned, I have cleaned I tried, I have tried I move I prepare I moved, I have moved I prepared, I have prepared I contribute I sort, I contributed, I have contributed I sorted, I have sorted Very good! Now just listen and repeat. In the first two podcasts I worked on two essential verbs: the verb “to be” and the verb “to have”. Today I have worked on the simple past and the present perfect of some regular verbs. I know in some cases you add the sound <d> as in <moved>. In other cases you add the sound <id> as in <tasted>. Next time I will study some of the most usual irregular verbs. By practicing seriously I will learn to use these verbs perfectly. If I practice QualityTime- ESL exercises for just 10 minutes every day, I will definitely improve my speaking skills. Learning to speak a foreign language is difficult but not impossible. I am certain I will improve my level of spoken English in the very near future. That is the end of today’s podcast. We will soon be back with more exercises and even short texts to repeat. Thank you all for listening. Bye for now and don't forget to keep smiling! Copyright QualityTime-ESL