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：
一般在动词原形末尾加ed。
如：play-played，listen-listened，look-looked
结尾是e的动词，加d
如：live-lived，like-liked，taste-tasted
辅音字母＋y结尾的动词，变y为i，再加ed。
如：study-studied，carry-carried，cry-cried
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
不规则变化。如：
am/is-was
are-were
have/has-had
do-did
go-went
sit-sat
tell-told
see-saw
get-got
make-made
give-gave
read-read
buy-bought
come-came
draw-drew
eat-ate
fly-flew
meet-met
put-put
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.
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.
。