Unit 2: Review of tenses- Past tenses

Unit 2: LANGUAGE FOCUSREVIEW OF TENSES 1.Present simple indicating past time 2.The past simple, past progressive and past perfect... At five o’clock yesterday, they play ______ footbal

Unit 2: Personal Experience

Teacher: To Phuong Tu

Why? To make it more

realistic

Unit 2: LANGUAGE FOCUS

REVIEW OF TENSES

1.Present simple indicating

past time

2.The past simple, past

progressive and past perfect

At five o’clock yesterday, they (play)

football

The action was happening at a point of

time

were playing

S+ were/was + Ving

Mary (wake) _ when the alarm clock (go) off

woke went

Two short actions, one right after another

She (meet) her teacher

when she (walk) to school

met was walking One short action (simple past) interrupted one continuing action (past progressive)

He (do) _ his homework

while they (read) a book

was doing

were reading

Two long actions were happening at the same time in the past

When she (get) to her

class, the teacher (start) _ the lesson.

got

had started

One action happened after a

completed action in the past

1 To describe what happened and ended in the

past

Past simple (V2-ed)

2 One action was happening at a point of time

in the past

Past progressive (were/was+Ving)

3 One action happened right after another S+ V2-ed + when + S + V2-ed

as soon as

4 One short action interrupted one continuing

action

S+ Were/was + Ving + when +S+ V2-ed

while

as

5 Two long actions were happening at the

same time in the past

S+ Were/was + Ving + while /as +S + were/was + Ving

6 One action happened after a completed

action in the past

S+ had+V3-ed + before +S + V2-ed

when

by the time

S+ V2-ed + after + S + had + V3-ed

Exercise 2(p.30): Complete the sentences by putting the verbs into the past simple or past progressive

1 broke, was playing

2 wrote, was

3 was working, broke

4 started, were walking

5 told, were having

6 didn’t listen, was thinking

7 phoned, didn’t answer, were… doing

8 wasn’t wearing, didn’t notice, was driving

Exercise 2(p.30): Complete the sentences by putting the verbs into the past simple or past progressive

1 had eaten , arrived

2 found , had taken

3 got , had closed

4 got , had left

5 got, had arrived

6 paid, had phoned

7 went, said, hadn’t arrived

8 had looked, asked , cost

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