Mastering Past Tenses: Practice and Learning Objectives
Enhance your understanding of past tenses with a focus on Simple Past, Past Perfect, and Past Progressive through practice questions and self-assessment. Explore how to correctly use each tense in different scenarios to improve your language skills.
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Past Tense Simple Past Past Perfect Past Progressive Student Learning Objectives Practice with Past Tenses Student Learning Objectives Practice with Past Tenses
Simple Past Tense When we are talking about something that we have done in the past and it is finished, we use the simple past tense. Uses of simple past: Completed events Habitual (repeated) events in the past Past states (liked, knew) Regular verbs take the ed ending for simple past tense. For example: I walked to school yesterday. I realized it was the day before Thanksgiving break! Back to Home Back to Home
Past Perfect A time or event in the past. It is used to show that this event occurred before another event in the past. Uses of Past Perfect The situation ended before a past event The situation began in the past and was continuing when another past event occurred. For example: I had lived there for 5 years before we hosted a holiday dinner. We had finished the dinner when the phone rang.
Past Progressive In English, we use the past progressive when we are talking about an event that was going on in the past when something else happened in the past. The past progressive takes the form: was/were verb + ing. Uses of Past Progressive Something that was ongoing at one point in time An action that was repeated for a certain amount of time in the past For example: I was cooking dinner when the phone rang. They were kicking the ball around in the backyard. Self-Assessment
Self- Assessment I know my past tenses. I am ready to practice. Practice Questions Practice Questions I need to read the information again. I am not ready to practice yet. Back to Home Back to Home
I ___________ home on the day before Thanksgiving. That s Right! Walked Try Again Had walked Was Walking Next Try Again Next
We ______________________ all day cooking before we were finally finished. Try Again Spent That s right! Had spent Were spening Next Try Again Next
I ______________ a great time with my family when I woke up from my dream. Try Again Had Try Again Had been Was having Next That s Right! Next
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