Past Simple Past Continuous Past Perfect Passive

Past Simple and past Continuous
Simple Past Tense

Form
• the form is the same for all persons
Subject + Verb 2 + Object
– He left at three o’clock.
– They arrived three weeks ago.
Use
• a finished action in the past (kejadian
yang berakhir di masa lampau)
– We met in 2007.
• action that follow each other in a story
(kejadian yang menyambung dalam satu
cerita)
– Mary walked into the room and stopped.
• a past situation or habit (situasi atau kebiasaan di
masa lampau)
– When I was a child, we lived in a small house by the sea.
• most regular verbs add –ed to the base form of
the verb ( worked, wanted, helped .....)
• there are many common irregular verbs ( go-went,
meet-met, see-saw,.....)
Time expressions
• last night, last week, last month, last year, …
• two days ago, a week ago, two months ago, a year
ago, …
• yesterday
Past continuous
Form
• Subject + Was / were + verb-ing
– They were driving to Paris.
– We weren’t waiting for a long time.
– What were they doing?
Use
• to express activities in progress before, and
probably after, a particular time in the past
– At 7 0’clock this morning I was having my breakfast.
• for descriptions
– Jan looked beautiful.She was wearing a green dress.
• to express an interrupted past activity
– When the phone rang, I was having a shower.
• to express an incomplete activity
– I was reading a book during the flight.
Past simple or continuous?
• Sometimes both tenses are possible. The Past
Simple focuses on past actions as complete facts.
The Past Continuous focuses on the duration of
past activities
Compare :
• A: I didn’t see you at the party last night.
• B: No. I stayed at home and watched the football.
• A: I didn’t see you at the party last night.
• B: No, I was watching the football at home.
Past Perfect
• perfect means ‘ completed before ‘
• the past perfect refers to an action in the past
that was completed before another action in the
past
Form ( the same for all persons )
• Had + past participle
• I had seen him before.
• You hadn’t finished work at six o’clock.
• What had you been before?
Use
• to make clear that one action in the past happened
before another action in the past
– When I got home, I found that someone had broken
into my apartment and had stolen my DVD player.
• the past simple tells a story in chronological order.
– Sue met Pete at university. They were together for 6
years. They divorced last month.
• the Past Perfect can be used to tell a story in a
different order.
– Sue and Pete divorced last month. They’d met at
university, and had been together for six years.
Notice the difference between these
sentences
• When I got to the party, Peter went home.
• ( = first I arrived,then Peter left )
• When I got to the party, Peter had gone home.
• ( = first peter left, then I arrived )
Match the sentence with the tense:a) Past Perfect
Simple, b) Past Simple, c) Past continuous
• I did the week’s grocery shopping on my home
computer.____
• I hadn’t been to that party of town before._____
• Why were you running down the street?_____
Choose the correct form of the verb,
Past Simple or Past Continuous
• They fell/were falling in love when they
worked/were working in Rome.
• She read/was reading quietly in her room when
suddenly the lights went/were going out and
heard/ was hearing a scream.
• Didn’t you meet/Weren’t you meeting your wife
while you lived/were living in Italy?
• I saw/ was seeing you in the park yesterday. You
sat / were sitting with your arm round Tom.
Which happened first? Write true or false
• I drove to the house but Cathy had left.
• First cathy left, then I arrived. True
• The class had started when I arrived.
• First I arrived, then the class started. ______
• We had just finished painting the fence when it
started to rain.
• First we finished painting, then it rained.______
• She’d been walking home when the storm began.
• First she started walking,then the storm began._____
Complete the sentences with the Past Simple
or the Past Perfect forms of the verbs in
brackets.
• I _______ ( not ring ) him because _______ ( forgot )
his number.
• He ______ ( not pass ) his driving test when he _______
( drive ) from San Francisco to LA!
• He _______ ( not know ) how the cat _______ ( walk )
100 km to its old home.
• She only ______ ( hear ) about the interview
three months after she _______ ( apply ) for the
job.
• When he first ______ ( go ) to Moscow he
______ ( never travel ) abroad before.
Rewrite the sentences using the
passive
• Somebody broke my glasses.
• My glasses ________ .
• He didn’t come because nobody had invited him.
• He didn’t come because he_______ .
• Somebody had left the lights on.
• The lights___________ .
• Somebody told me about it yesterday.
• I __________ yesterday.
• Did the ambulance take you to hospital?
• ____ you _____ by ambulance?

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