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What are the 4 basic past tenses?
Past simple
Past continuous
Past perfect
Past perfect continuous
What is the past simple form?
Regular verbs add -ed ending
Irregular verbs - we have to learn them (do - did)
What is the past continuous form?
Was/were + verb with -ing ending
What is the past perfect form?
Had + past participle
What is the past perfect continuous form?
Had + been + verb with -ing
Is this sentence correct?
While my mom was cooking my brother ate his dinner.
No - "he was eating his dinner"
Since there is while it is necessary to use past continuous two times.
Is this sentence correct?
Before the police arrived the burglar was escaping.
No: Before the police arrived the burglar had escaped.
Is this sentence correct?
He had studied for three hours before he went to bed.
No - He had been studying for three hours before he went to bed.
Is this sentence correct?
The children were shouting when the teacher had came in.
No - The children were shouting when the teacher came in.
Is this sentence correct?
I was eating at that restaurant every Monday.
No
I used to eat at that...
I ate at that...
Write on the board the past perfect simple tense of: EAT
Had eaten
Write on the board the past perfect simple tense of: HAVE
Had had
Write on the board the past perfect continuous tense of: TAKE
Had been taking
Write on the board the past perfect continuous tense of: SEE
Had been seeing
Write on the board the past perfect simple tense of: LEARN
Had learned/learnt
When do we use past simple?
To talk about something that started and ended in the past.
About activities that happend only once.
About activities that happend at a particular time in the past.
About repeated activities in the past (every Monday etc)
When do we use past continuous?
We can use the past continuous to talk about repeated background events in the past. It can suggest that the situation was temporary or subject to change: She was feeding her neighbours' cat every morning while they were on holiday.
When do we use past perfect simple?
The past perfect refers to a time earlier than before now. It is used to make it clear that one event happened before another in the past.
When do we use past perfect continuous?
We use the past perfect continuous to talk about actions or events which started before a particular time in the past and were still in progress up to that time in the past.
In what other ways can we form a sentence in the past tense - using what phrases/verbs?
With "used to" and "would"
Fill the gaps:
The kids ________(play) football when it ______(start) to rain.
The kids were playing football when it started to rain.
Fill the gap:
Sophie ________ (visit) Paris many times before she _______ (move) there.
Sophie had visited Paris many times before she moved there.
Fill the gap:
We _______ (hike) in the mountains when we _____ (see) a bear.
We were hiking in the mountains when we saw a bear.
Fill the gap:
I ________ (search) for my missing keys when I __________ (realize) they were in my pocket.
I had been searching for my missing keys when I realized they were in my pocket.
Fill the gap:
Last summer we ______(go) to Italy.
Last summer we went to Italy.