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Contents
1 A world of difference
7 Passions and fashions
2 The work week
8 No fear!
3 Good times, bad times
9 It depends how you look at it
4 Getting it right
10 All things high tech
5 Our changing world
11 Seeing is believing
6 What matters to me
12 Telling it like it is
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Today’s class:
Four Types of
Past Tense
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Different past tenses describe
different periods of time in the past
When Mike arrived, Zoe opened her presents.
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Different past tenses describe
different periods of time in the past
When Mike arrived, Zoe
was opening her presents.
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Past Simple
same form for all persons
When Mike arrived, I opened presents.
you opened presents.
he opened presents.
we opened presents.
they opened presents.
she opened presents.
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Past Simple
to express
a finished action in the past
I bought this car last year.
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Past Simple
to express
1. A finished action in the past
I bought this car last year.
2. Actions that follow each other in a story
The student graduated and got a good job.
3. A past situation or habit
When I took piano lessons, I practiced every day.
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Past Simple Passive
was/were + past participle
This camp was selected by their teacher.
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Past Continuous
was/were + verb + -ing
When Mike arrived, Zoe
was opening her presents.
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Past Continuous
to express
1. Activities in progress before, and probably after, a
particular time in the past
He was using his computer when she got home.
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Past Continuous
to express
2. An interrupted (incomplete) past activity
The phone rang while I was eating dinner.
3. Descriptions
The lights were shining brightly in the dark sky.
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Past Simple
Zoe opened her presents.
Past Continuous
Zoe was still opening her presents
when it was time for cake.
Past Simple Passive
The presents were brought by her family.
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Select the correct tense
Past Simple
Past Continuous
Past Simple Passive
She got into trouble at school.
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Select the correct tense
Past Simple
Past Continuous
Past Simple Passive
The lion cub was startled
by the bright light.
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Different past tenses describe
different periods of time in the past
When Mike arrived, Zoe
had opened her presents.
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Past Perfect
same form for all persons
When Mike arrived, I had opened presents.
you had opened presents.
he had opened presents.
we had opened presents.
they had opened presents.
she had opened presents.
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Past Perfect
to express
1. That one action happened before another
The children were tired when they got to camp.
They had ridden on a bus for two hours.
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Past Perfect
to express
2. A story in non-chronological order
Ben and Kristie got married in a park in Washington.
They had met in the Peace Corps in Uzbekistan.
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Special Verb
used to
3. A habit or state in the past that is now finished
I used to eat meat every day.
But, now I’m a vegetarian.
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Review: We learned 4 types of past tense today
*past simple (add –ed, -ied, -d & irregulars)
*past continuous (was/were + verb + -ing)
*past simple passive (was/were + past participle)
*past perfect (had + past participle)
Special verb: used to
Review: Grammar reference page 132-33
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