Yesterday's meeting · Summarising a past activity

Summarising a past activity in context, with bilingual examples and practice.

Application goal: Summarising a past activity.

Use the past simple for a finished event at a past time. Many verbs add ed; irregular forms such as go → went need to be learned.

Context: Yesterday's meeting. Identify the wording that achieves this goal, then adapt the details to a situation of your own.

Practical examples

Yesterday, our team discussed a new opening time.

ناقش فريقنا أمس وقتًا جديدًا لبدء العمل.

Sara explained the visitors' main requests.

شرحت سارة الطلبات الرئيسية للزوار.

We compared three possible schedules.

قارنا ثلاثة جداول محتملة.

The manager asked each person for an opinion.

طلب المدير رأي كل شخص.

We chose a short trial for the following month.

اخترنا تجربة قصيرة للشهر التالي.

I sent the meeting notes to the team afterwards.

أرسلت ملاحظات الاجتماع إلى الفريق بعد ذلك.

Check your understanding

1. Choose the closest Arabic meaning of this expression: Yesterday, our team discussed a new opening time.
2. Choose the English expression that matches this meaning: أرسلت ملاحظات الاجتماع إلى الفريق بعد ذلك.
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