Kathy usually gets up at 6:30,（经常发生用一般现在时） but this morning, she didn’t hear her alarm.（主语➕didn't➕动词➕其他，一般过去式的否定句）
As a result（某个原因导致的结果）, she overslept.（Oversleep的过去式）
She didn’t get up until 7:00, 30 minutes later than usual.（Not...until直到……才）（比较级＋than usual 比平常更）
As a result, she didn’t have time to cook breakfast for her children.
Today Kathy and her kids left home early.
They usually leave home at 7:30, but today they left at 7:15.
They left early because they had to buy breakfast on their way to school.（在他们去学校的路上）
It usually takes 45 minutes to drive her kids to school, but today it took longer.（It takes sb ＋时间＋todosth做某事要话费某人多久时间）
It took them longer because they stopped （Stopped重读闭音节，结尾辅音＋元音＋辅音，单词重音在结尾）for （Stop for 为……做短暂停留）breakfast along the way（＝on their way 在路上）.
It took 15 minutes for them to have breakfast.
They ate （eat的过去式）at a little coffee shop along the side of the road.
After eating breakfast, they got back into their car.
On most days the traffic isn’t too bad in the morning.
But this morning, it was much worse than usual.（Much修饰bad的比较级worse，进一步强调）
The cars were moving very slowly.
As a result it took them longer than usual to get to school.
One of her children got to school on time, but the other two were late.
They were late because their schools are farther away.（far～farther或further)
They were both about 10 minutes late to school.
When Kathy finally got home she cleaned her house as usual.
She vacuumed （vacuum用吸尘器清扫，vacuum cleaner吸尘器）the living room and cleaned the bathroom.
Then （接着，然后）she talked with her friend on the phone as usual.
When she finished talking with her friend, she got into her car.
She put（Put过去式和现代时一样为put) the key into the ignition（点火器）, and tried to start the engine.（（发动引擎）Try to do sth尝试做某事）
But her car’s engine didn’t start.
Her car battery was dead, （电池没电了）so she had to call for help.（打电话求助）
After getting a new battery for her car, the engine started.
Then Kathy drove （Drive的过去式）to the mall to meet her friend.
She arrived at （到达＋地点）the mall an hour late but her friend was waiting for （等待）her.
They had lunch together and then they went shopping.
They both bought new shoes and some things for their kids.
Kathy bought a new tie for her husband.
It’s now 3:00, and everything is going as usual.
Kathy doesn’t want anything else to go wrong.（出岔子）
She wants the rest of the day to go as usual.（一切照常）
She doesn’t want any more surprises.
And tomorrow, she won’t oversleep.
She never wants to oversleep again.
一般过去时
1时间点
2动词过去式
动词结尾加ed，play+ed＝played，元音结尾ed读/d/；work+ed＝worked，辅音结尾ed读/t/；本身e结尾的直接加d。辅音字母➕y结尾的，y变为i➕ed。