Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 10 views

    English Class2

    Uploaded by

    Vera ayutamara

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    English Class2

    Uploaded by

    Vera ayutamara
    10 views11 pages

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pptx, pdf, or txt
    10 views11 pages

    English Class2

    Uploaded by

    Vera ayutamara

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pptx, pdf, or txt
    You are on page 1of 11

    English Class

    Understanding Past Tense


    Group 1
    Member:
    Annisa Rahma
    Dheaneinza Husandra
    Hanifah
    Khairani Melyana
    Vera Ayu Tamara
    What are we going to
    explain?
    1. Past Tense
    2. Past Continuous
    3. Past Perfect
    4. Reading Text
    What is the Simple Past Tense?

    The simple past tense, sometimes called the preterite, is used to talk
    about a completed action in a time before now. The simple past is
    the basic form of past tense in English. The time of the action can be in
    the recent past or the distant past and action duration is not important.
    When we use simple
    past tense? (1)
    *EXAMPLES
    • John Cabot sailed to America in 1498.
    • My father died last year.

    *And we use the simple past when we say when something


    happened, so it is associated with certain past time
    expressions

    • frequency: often, sometimes, always


    I sometimes walked home at lunchtime.
    I often brought my lunch to school.
    When we use simple
    past tense? (2)
    • a definite point in time: last week, when I was a child, yesterday, six
    weeks ago
    -We saw a good film last week.
    -I went to the theatre last night

    • an indefinite point in time: the other day, ages ago, a long time
    ago
    -People lived in caves a long time ago.
    What is the Past Continuous
    Tense?

    What does past continuous mean? The past continuous tense


    expresses events that lasted for a duration of time in the past.

    Past continuous also known as past progressive.


    When we use past
    continuous?
    The past continuous is used to express:
    • duration
    – I was working.
    • interrupted actions in progress
    – I was working when he called.
    • actions happening at the same time
    – I was listening to music while I was working.
    • polite question
    – I was wondering if you could help me.
    What is the Past Perfect
    Tense?
    What does past perfect mean? The past perfect tense most often
    expresses actions in the past that finished before another action (also in
    the past) started.
    When we use past perfect?
    The past perfect is used to express:
    • completed action before another begins (both in past)
    – After he had answered the question, he was able to complete his
    assignment.
    • conditional statements
    – If we had asked a question, we would have been able to
    complete the assignment.
    • reported speech
    – The teacher asked if I had completed the assignment.
    • show dissatisfaction with the past
    – I wish I had completed the assignment.
    Past Tenses in text
    We use past tense in this kind of text like
    recount ,narrative text.

    Example of Recount Example of Narrative

    Yesterday my family went to the zoo One day Daddy goat woke up and
    to see the elephant. realised that all the fresh green
    When we got to the zoo, we went to grass was eaten. The goats would
    the shop to buy some food to give to have to cross the wooden bridge
    the animals. to get to the new grass on the
    other side.
    sources
    • http://writingexplained.org/grammar-dicti
    onary/past-tense
    • http://www.ef.com/english-resources/engli
    sh-grammar/simple-past-tense
    /
    • http://www.pdst.ie/recountwriting
    • http://www.pdst.ie/node/597

    You might also like