Past Simple, Past Continuous & Past Perfect

2. Past Simple, Past Continuous & Past Perfect

3. Form • the form is the same for all persons POSITIVE: • They arrived three weeks ago. – REGULAR • He left at three o’clock. – IRREGULAR NEGATIVE: • I didn’t play football yesterday • I didn’t go home early on Saturday INTERROGATIVE: Yes/No questions: • Did you play football yesterday? • Did you go home early in Saturday? WH-question – When did you learn last time?

4. Verb TO BE • Positive sentences: • I was in London last year • Negative sentences: -They weren’tat home last weekend • Yes/No questions: • Were you ill yesterday?

5. Use • a finished action in the past • We met in 2007. • action that follow each other in a story • Mary walked into the room and stopped • a past situation or habit • When I was a child, we lived in a small house by the sea. SIGNAL WORDS / TIME EXPRESSIONS - last night, ....... ago, yesterday, the other day, in 1999, when I was younger....

6. Past continuous

7. Form • Was / were + verb + -ing • They were driving to Paris. • I was writing my English homework all afternoon. • We weren’t waiting for a long time. • What were they doing? • Was your friend listening to the teacher?

8. Use • to expressactivities in progress before, and probably after, a particular time in the past • At 7 0’clock this morning I was having my breakfast. • for descriptions • Jan looked beautiful. She was wearing a green dress. • to express an interrupted past activity • When the phone rang, I was having a shower. • to express an incomplete activity • I was reading a book during the flight.

9. Past simple or continuous? • Sometimes both tenses are possible. The Past Simple focuses on past actions as complete facts. The PastContinuous focuses on the duration of past activities

10. Compare : • A: I didn’t see you at the party last night. • B: No. I stayed at home and watched the football. • A: I didn’t see you at the party last night. • B: No, I was watching the football at home.

11. Past Perfect

12. perfect means ‘ completed before ‘ • the past perfect refers to an action in the past that was completed before another action in the past

13. Form Had + past participle • I had seen him before. • You hadn’t finished work at six o’clock. • Had you written your homework before you came here? • What had you been before?

14. Use • to make clear that one action in the past happened before another action in the past • this is the past in the past • When I got home, I found that I had forgotten my books at the faculty.

15. On the timeline got went had forgotten had written When I got home, I realized that I had forgotten my books at the faculty. I went for a walk after I had written the seminar paper,

16. Past Simple and Past Perfect combined • the Past Simple tells a story in chronological order • Sue met Pete at university. They were together for 6 years. They divorced last month. • the Past Perfect can be used to tell a story in a different order • Sue and Pete divorced last month. They’d met at university, and had been together for six years

17. Notice the difference between these sentences • When I got to the party, Peter went home. • ( = first I arrived, then Peter left ) • When I got to the party, Peter had gone home. • ( = first Peter left, then I arrived )

18. Totalkabout a pastactionthatendedbeforeanotheractionor time in thepast, we use BEFORE andAFTER in combination with thesimple past The film HAD STARTED before we ARRIVED. • Wealso use thepastperfectto show the cause of a pastaction I WAS tired yesterday because I HADN’T SLEPT well the night before. • Withtime expressionssuch as when, after, before, as soon as, bythe time, byanduntil Bythe time I GOThome, my motherHAD already PREPAREDdinner.

19. Match the sentence withthe tense: a) Past Perfect Simple, b) Past Simple, c) Past Continuous • I did the week’s grocery shopping on my home computer.____ • I hadn’t been to that party of town before._____ • Why were you running down the street?_____

20. Exercise: • My brother _________ (get) married last year. • We __________(have) dinner when Sally called. • John got to the cinema late and the film ________(start) when he arrived. • I was driving home when the accident __________. (happen) • ____________(you / watch) TV when I phoned? • I'd studied really hard but I_________(not pass) the exam.

21. Exercise key: • My brothergot married last year. • Wewere havingdinner when Sally called. • John got to the cinema late and the filmhad startedwhen he arrived. • I was driving home when the accidenthappened. • Were you watchingTV when I phoned? • I'd studied really hard but Ididn’t pass the exam.

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