Before you start the exercises, read this review carefully. Some of these points were difficult in the previous activities.

The objective is not only to get the answers right, but to understand why they are right.

1. Simple Past

We use the simple past to talk about actions that happened in the past.

Some verbs are regular:

cook → cooked
I cooked dinner last night.

visit → visited
She visited her grandmother on Sunday.

wash → washed
They washed the dishes.

live → lived
Anna lived in an apartment.

Other verbs are irregular:

buy → bought
I bought a new phone.

make → made
She made breakfast.

understand → understood
He understood the exercise.

Remember: irregular verbs do not always use -ed, so you need to learn their past forms.

2. DID + BASE VERB

This is the most important rule in this review.

When we use DID to make a question, the main verb goes back to its base form.

Statement:
She bought a phone.

Question:
Did she buy a phone?

NOT:
❌ Did she bought a phone?

Another example:

Statement:
He understood the film.

Question:
Did he understand the film?

NOT:
❌ Did he understood the film?

Remember:

DID + person + base verb

Did you understand?
Did she make breakfast?
Did he visit his grandmother?
Did they buy a phone?

DID already tells us that the sentence is in the past.

3. DIDN'T + BASE VERB

The same rule applies to negative sentences.

Statement:
She made breakfast.

Negative:
She didn't make breakfast.

NOT:
❌ She didn't made breakfast.

Another example:

He washed the dishes.

He didn't wash the dishes.

NOT:
❌ He didn't washed the dishes.

Remember:

person + DIDN'T + base verb

I didn't buy it.
She didn't make breakfast.
He didn't wash the dishes.
They didn't visit us.

4. Compare the three forms

Study these examples:

BUY

She bought a phone.
Did she buy a phone?
She didn't buy a phone.

MAKE

He made breakfast.
Did he make breakfast?
He didn't make breakfast.

UNDERSTAND

They understood the lesson.
Did they understand the lesson?
They didn't understand the lesson.

Notice that the past form is used in a normal affirmative sentence.

After DID or DIDN'T, use the base verb.

5. Questions with WOULD LIKE

We use would like to talk politely about something we want.

I would like to learn English.

She would like to live in another country.

To make a question, put WOULD before the person:

Would you like to go out tonight?

Would she like to buy a new phone?

Compare:

You would like to go.
Would you like to go?

She would like to stay home.
Would she like to stay home?

6. MAKE and DO

Some expressions use MAKE, and others use DO. It is better to learn them as complete expressions.

MAKE

make the bed
make a mistake
make a phone call

Examples:

I make my bed every morning.

She made a mistake yesterday.

He would like to make a phone call.

DO

do the dishes
do the shopping
do the cleaning

Examples:

I do the dishes after dinner.

She did the shopping yesterday.

They do the cleaning on Saturday.

Do not translate make and do word by word from Portuguese. Learn the complete English expression.

7. Final reminder

Before answering each question, ask yourself:

Is this a normal past sentence?
→ Use the past verb.

She bought a phone.

Is there DID?
→ Use the base verb.

Did she buy a phone?

Is there DIDN'T?
→ Use the base verb.

She didn't buy a phone.

Is it a WOULD LIKE question?
→ Put WOULD first.

Would you like to go?

Take your time. Read every sentence carefully before answering.

Understanding the rule is more important than answering quickly.