Simple Past Tense
What is the simple past form of get?
Got
Make an affirmative sentence using the verb to play.
I was playing the guitar.
Which helping verb do we put before verb in past perfect simple tense?
Use the helping verb “has” before a verb in past perfect simple tense to describe all subjects (I, we, you, they, he, she, it).
What is the simple past form of eat?
Ate
Make a negative sentence using the verb to play.
He wasn't playing the guitar.
Using the past perfect, merge these sentences into one. Someone broke into our house. We arrived home.
We discovered that someone had broken into our house when we arrived home.
What is the rule for using regular verbs in the simple past tense?
Add -ed
Make an interrogative sentence using the verb to play.
Were you playing yesterday?
Make a question using past perfect using these words - water/boil/kitchen
Had the water boiled when you went to the kitchen?
What is the rule for using irregular verbs in the simple past tense?
The whole word changes.
State 3 sentences using the past continuous.
Use sleep, eat and watch.
I was sleeping at 3.a.m. I was eating and he was watching t.v.
Complete this sentence:
I opened my handbag to find that I ........(forgot) my credit card.
I opened my handbag to find that I had forgotten my credit card.
Finished time word (Yesterday/Last week/Last year); Finished time period (Leonardo painted the Mona Lisa).
When do we use the past continuous tense?
To describe parallel actions - While I was washing the dishes I heard a loud noise;
To describe what someone was doing at a particular point in time - I was working in the garden all day yesterday;
To express interrupted action in the past - I was driving to work when I crashed my car;
To describe repetition and irritation - He was always complaining in class..
When do we use the past perfect tense?
The past perfect (simple) tense is used to describe an action that has been completed before another past action. It is also used to describe an action that happened in the distant past (when it is understood that other actions have happened since that action).