Past tenses (past simple and past continuous) Slide

Past Simple


Past Simple
1. Form
(+)
(-)
(?)

S
S
Wh

Vs, es

V-ed
don’t
doesn’t

didn’t
do
does

did

V
S

V?

Past Simple
2. Usages
- happened in the past and is
over
Ex: Tom went fishing last week.


Past Simple
3. Time markers
- yesterday
- last week/month
- 3days/2hours ago
- in 1998
- on May 1st 2013


Past Continuous
1. Form

(+)

S

(-)

S

(?) Wh

was

were

V-ing

wasn’t V-ing
weren’t
was
were

S

Ving?


Past Continuous
2. Usages
- was in progress at a specific point
Ex: Sophia wasn’t home last night when I called. I
think she was working.

- in narrative story
Ex: It was a beautiful morning.
The sun was shining and the birds were singing.


Past Continuous
2. Time markers
- at …
- this time yesterday/ last week

How do they relate?
Past Simple


Past Simple & Past Continuous
When


Past Simple & Past Continuous
Verb form ?

Yesterday morning, when she (get)
_____ up, the sun (shine) _________
brightly. She (brush) _________ her
teeth, (wash) ________her face,
(have) ________ breakfast and then
(go) _____ to school.


USED TO + V
- used to + V
Ex: He used to cry when he was a child.

WHEN?

Ex: She used to smoke but now she doesn’t.
HOW?

Form:

(+) S + used to + V
(-) S + didn’t use to + V
(?) Did + S + use to + V?
Note: She used to get up late yesterday.


Used to V ≠ Would V

- We used to take a bath in the morning when we were in the
army.
- We would take a bath in the morning when we were in the
army.
- He used to have a large house in London.
- He would have a large house in London.


used to + V # be/ get used to + V-ing
Ex:
He is

used to driving on the left in Britain.

He gets used to driving on the left in Britain.


How do they differ?
Past Simple


Past Simple & Present Perfect

PAST SIMPLE
The game finished
yesterday.
(Time?)

PRESENT PERFECT
The game has finished.
(Time?)


Past Simple & Present Perfect
PAST SIMPLE

PRESENT PERFECT

He lived here for two years. He has lived here for two
years.
Does he live here now?

Does he live here now?


Past Simple & Present Perfect
PAST SIMPLE
They quarreled each other
twice this morning.
Is it morning now?

PRESENT PERFECT
They have quarreled each

other twice this morning.
Is it morning now?


Past Perfect

1. Form
S + had + P2
S + hadn’t+ P2
Wh- + had + S + P2 ?

2. Usages
-An action before an
action in the past
HOW TO KNOW?


Past Perfect
3. Time markers

before

after

when

by the time

Ex:
- He had turned off the lights before he left the

room.
- By the time she got home, all her family
members had gone to bed.


Past Perfect Continuous


Past Perfect Continuous
1. Form

S + had been + V-ing
S + hadn’t been + V-ing
Wh + had + S + been V-ing?


Past Perfect Continuous
When do we use this tense?


Past Perfect Continuous
Past Perfect

Past Perfect Continuous

By the time I arrived,
Jack had already
gone to bed.

I found my keys

yesterday. I had
been looking for
them
for days.
Her eyes
were red.
She had been crying
for hours.
Time markers:

Time markers:
before, after
when, as soon as
by, by the time
just, already, until

since, for
before
until