Past Tense
Past Tense
Past Tense
Take out a blank sheet of paper. Write your name at the top. The teacher will give you a topic.
Write a paragraph to answer the topic. Dont stop writing for 5 minutes.
5-minute writing
Topic: What did you do last Monday? (labor day) Describe your day. Be very descriptive and specific. STOP start WRITING writing
Past Progressive Tense Using time clauses Expressing Past Habit: Used to
Extra Resources
Class Website Links Grammar Links Language Lab: Grammar Sense 1 and 2 Workbook packet with answer key Charts in Chapter 2 (read at home for homework and take your own notes)
Lets Review
simple present simple past present progressive past progressive
What tense?
When people need help with their automobile insurance, they call her.
simple present
What tense?
Right now it is 9:05 am, and Jennifer is sitting at her desk.
present progressive
What tense?
Yesterday Jennifer was late to work because she had a minor auto accident.
simple past
What tense?
Jennifer works for an insurance company.
simple present
What tense?
While she was driving to work, her cell phone rang.
What tense?
She answered it. It was her friend Rob.
simple past
What tense?
She was happy to hear from him because she likes Rob a lot and always enjoys her conversations with him.
What tense?
While they were talking, Jennifer, who is allergic to bee stings, noticed two bees in her car.
What tense?
She quickly opened the car windows and swatted at the bees while she was talking to Rob on the phone.
present
They worked.
They didnt work. Did they work?
Change the following into yes/no questions: (use the same subject)
You walked home last night.
Did you walk home last night?
Did you have a good day yesterday? Did you eat dinner before 6 last night? Did you drive to school this morning? Did you study grammar yesterday? Did you grow up in Houston? Did you have a pet when you were a child?
Were you at home last night? Were you good in school when you were young? Were you busy last weekend? Were you in Houston over the Christmas vacation?
Mon.
Exercise 5, page 28
Write the correct pronunciation after each verb:
/t/ /d/ /id/
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4. /t/ 5. /Id/ 6. /t/ 7. /d/ 8. /t/ 9. /Id/ 10./t/
(simple past)
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2. slept 3. wore 4. froze 5. drank 6. chose 7. hung 8. rang, woke 9. rose 10. sent
We did #1 together.
B 31 35
He was exercising.
He was smoking.
He was eating.
He was swimming.
He was studying.
I was watching the news. I was studying grammar. I was cooking dinner.
Past Progressive
was/were + verb-ing
Affirmative: I was working. Negative: I wasnt working. Yes/No Question: Was I working?
Negative
I wasnt working. You werent shopping.
Question (Yes/No)
Was I working? Were you shopping? Was he talking on the phone? Was she walking? Was it running? Were we being loud? Were they following me?
Name a jogger Fiona Andy a street cleaner John Martin Judy a golfer a shopkeeper Agnes Johnny a pedestrian Jessie a bartender a policeman Sandra Perez
what they were doing He was running. She was putting luggage in the boot (trunk). He was looking in his briefcase. He was cleaning the streets. He was putting his card into the machine. He was drawing. She was painting. He was playing golf He was closing up shop. She was feeding the birds. He was playing football. She was crossing the road. She was riding her bike. He was serving drinks. He was writing a ticket. She was talking to the man.
positive negative
was wasnt were werent
Close your books. Your teacher will read a sentence and choose one student to change that sentence into the negative version.
statements questions
Statement: I was living here last month. Question: Were you living here last month?
The teacher will tell you a sentence. Change it to a past progressive yes/no Change: question. word order: Was/Were + Subject + verb-ing pronoun: I you, our your negative: all questions are positive
What __________were you doing at 10:00 last night? What __________ were you saying a minute ago? Who was helping you with the assignment? ________ Where __________ was he going? How __________ were you getting to work? How long __________were you working there? How __________ were they earning money? Why __________ was he running out the door? Who __________ was coming in the door? How much __________were you earning last year?
Wed.
Your Turn
Write down 2 False and 2 True things about what you were doing in the past. Use past progressive. Make sure to put them in random order. Your partner has to guess which are true and which are false.
Erikas Schedule 8 9: had breakfast 9 10: finished her homework 10 11: exercised 11 12: cooked lunch 12 2: shopped 2 5: talked to a friend on the phone
Use while Examples: Sorry, I wasnt listening to you while you were talking. While I was reading, he was writing.
Other examples:
I was sleeping when the telephone rang and woke me up. We were watching the news when the announcer made a special live report.
He was driving too fast when he crashed the car. I was trying to study when you called.
One minute
Lets Check
(Most verbs)
Add -ING
say - saying go - going walk - walking swim - swimming hit - hitting get - getting
1 vowel + 1 consonant
come - coming lose - losing live living die dying tie tying
A little practice
1. The telephone (ring) when I (take a shower). 2. I (eat) dinner when you (come) to visit. 3. It (begin) to rain while they (walk) home. 4. We (see) an accident when we (drive) on the freeway.
5. The driver (no pay) attention to the cars in front when he (crash) into the red convertible.
6. She (chop) onions when she (cut) her finger. 7. They (watch) TV when the electricity (go) out. 8. A: What (you, do) yesterday at 5:00? I tried to call you but no one answered. B: I didnt hear the telephone. I (vacuum).
Final Tips
Use while for two actions in progress at the same time in the past: She was talking while he was driving. Use when when telling about sequence of events (one action that was in progress that was interrupted by another event in the past): I was just leaving when you called.
(first action in progress) (interrupting event)
When and while at the front of a sentence, use a comma: When you called, I was watching TV. While he was washing the clothes, I was doing the dishes. When and while in the middle of a sentence, no comma I was watching TV when you called. I was doing the dishes while he was washing the clothes.
The simple past and the past progressive do not mean exactly the same. Compare:
When Mary arrived, we were having dinner. This means that we already started dinner before Mary arrived.
This means that Mary arrived first and then we had dinner.
or
Main clause time clause. (no comma)
Exercise 22 page 49
First: I got home. Then: I ate dinner. After. or after After I got home, I ate dinner. I ate dinner after I got home. I got home after I ate dinner. XXX (wrong) Now, just say each of the sentences correctly on page 49.
Used to + Verb(simple)
We use 'used to' for something that happened regularly in the past but no longer happens.
I used to smoke a pack a day, but I stopped two years ago. Ben used to travel a lot in his job, but now he doesn't. I used to drive to work, but now I take the bus.
past present
Match
A: Now you live in Houston. Where did you use to live? B: I used to live in ______________. A: Now you are studying English. What did you use to study? B: I used to study ______________.