Simple Past
Change to simple past: “She walks to school.”
She walked to school.
Form the sentence: I / sleep / at 10 p.m.
I was sleeping at 10 p.m.
What is the form of the past perfect?
had + past participle
Form of past perfect continuous?
had been + -ing
Choose the correct: I ___ (was / did) watching TV when you called.
was watching
Make a question in simple past: he / visit / his uncle
Did he visit his uncle?
What is the past continuous used for?
An action in progress in the past.
Complete: She ___ (finish) the test before the bell rang.
had finished
Complete: They ___ (study) for hours when the teacher arrived.
had been studying
Choose the tense: By 8 pm, they ___ (finish) dinner.
had finished
Correct the error: “I didn’t went to class.”
I didn’t go to class.
Complete: She ___ (cook) when the phone rang.
was cooking
Correct the error: “I had ate dinner.”
I had eaten dinner.
Correct the error: “She had been study for 2 hours.”
She had been studying for 2 hours.
Fill in: She ___ (cry) because she had lost her wallet.
was crying
Complete: Yesterday, we ___ (eat) pizza.
ate
Correct the error: “They was playing football.”
They were playing football.
Why do we use the past perfect?
To show an action happened before another past action.
When do we use this tense?
For continuous actions before another past event.
What tense describes two actions in progress in the past?
Past continuous + past continuous
Rewrite using simple past: They don’t know the answer.
They didn’t know the answer.
Complete: While I ___ (walk) home, it started to rain.
Complete: While I ___ (walk) home, it started to rain.
Rewrite using past perfect: He left. Then she arrived.
He had left before she arrived.
Rewrite: He was tired. He worked all day.
He was tired because he had been working all day.
Decide the order: When we arrived, the movie started. Fix it for meaning.
When we arrived, the movie had started.