PAST SIMPLE PAST SIMPLE or or
PAST CONTINUOUSPAST CONTINUOUS
PAST SIMPLE PAST SIMPLE or or
PAST CONTINUOUSPAST CONTINUOUS
How do we form the simple past tense?
English has two types of verbs in
the past:-regular
-irregular
Let’s read the following list of past tense verbs….. Which are regular and which are irregular?
• walked regular• studied regular• taught irregular• gave irregular• became irregular• cried regular• lived regular• did irregular
Regular verbs are verbs that end with -ed
Simple form verbs:
walk
study
cry
live
Past tense verbs:
walked
studied
cried
lived
Rules for adding –ed:Add –ed to most verbs
Drop the “e” and add “ed”: smile = smiled
Drop the “y” and add –ied: study = studied
Double the consonant and add –ed: monosyllables,
consonant + vowel + consonant
stop = stopped
Double the consonant and add –ed: more than 1 syllable,
consonant + vowel + consonant, last syllable is stressed
prefer = preferred
Double the “l”: travel = travelled
Irregular verbs are verbs that don’t end in –ed… you need to memorize these!
PAST SIMPLE: affirmative, negative or interrogative
• AFIRMATIVA:– He painted the wall– We woke up very early
• NEGATIVA:– He didn’t paint the wall– We didn’t wake up very early
• INTERROGATIVA:– Did he paint the wall?– Did we wake up very early?
PAST CONTINUOUS
Past tense of verb to be
• I was• He / She / It was• We / You / They were
+ verb-ing
How do we form the simple past tense?
He was playing golfThey were studying
PAST CONTINUOUS: affirmative, negative or interrogative
• AFIRMATIVA:– He was painting the wall– We were waking up very early
• NEGATIVA:– He wasn’t painting the wall– We weren’t waking up very early
• INTERROGATIVA:– Was he painting the wall?– Were we waking up very early?
Simple Past vs. Simple Past vs. PastPast
ContinuousContinuous
Simple Past vs. Simple Past vs. PastPast
ContinuousContinuous
Use the simple past for:
1) action that happened in the past and is . . .
over, done, finished
Use the past continuous for:
1) action that was in progress at a specific point in the past OR
2) focusing on an action that continued for a long time in the past
Simple Past (Examples)
Action that was completed in the past:
Tom went fishing last week.
I worked until 2:00 p.m. yesterday.
*Time Expressions frequently used with the simple past:yesterday, last ______, past dates (in 1990), _____ ago, etc.
Past Continuous (Examples)
Action that was in progress at a particular point in the past:
At 2:00 yesterday, Tom was playing soccer.
Sophia wasn’t home last night when I called her. I think she was working.
Action that continued for a long time in the past:
We were working all afternoon.
Construcciones con el pasado simple y el pasado continuo
juntos
• Se utilizan las conjunciones WHEN, WHILE, AS.1. Una acción breve (Simple Past) interrumpe a una
acción larga (Past Continuous)– John was watching TV when his friend arrived.2. Dos acciones largas (Past Continuous) ocurren al
mismo tiempo.- I was doing the washing up while my brother was
watching TV.3. Dos acciones cortas (Simple Past) que ocurren una
después de la otra.- When I heard the explosion, I phoned the police.