grade 9 past tenses

grade 9

REVISION CLASS:

Past tenses

​Solutions intermediate

​lesson objectives

• ​review, differentiate and analyze the past tenses

PAST tenses

all types

Multiple Choice

how many Past tenses are there in English?

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 6

Multiple Select

Which of these is not PAST tenses of English?

NB: you can choose more than 1 answer

• Simple Past Tense.

• Past Continuous Tense.

• Past Perfect Tense.

• Past Perfect Continuous Tense.

• Present Perfect.

RULES for the PAST TENSES

past simple past perfect past continuous

NOW let's do them one by one...

Multiple Choice

1.

• past simple

• past perfect

• past continuous

Multiple Choice

2.

• past simple

• past perfect

• past continuous

Multiple Choice

3 and 4

• past simple, past perfect

• past simple, past continuous

• past continuous, past perfect

• past continuous, past simple

Multiple Choice

5

• past simple

• past continuous

• past perfect

^{When Tom left school, he learned to drive.}

^{When Tom left school, he was learning to drive.} 

^{When Tom left school, he had learned to drive.}

how did the meaning change?

_{When Tom left school, he learned to drive.}

_{=First he left school, then learned to drive.} 

_{When Tom left school, he was learning to drive.} 

_{= he left school during the period when he was learning to drive.} 

_{=When he left school, he had learned to drive.}

_{When Tom left school, he already knew how to drive.}

Fill in the Blanks

Complete the sentence

NB: find words which will help to decide which tense to use, e.g. while (past continuous), after (past perfect), when (past simple).

Fill in the Blanks

Complete the sentence

NB: find words which will help to decide which tense to use, e.g. while (past continuous), after (past perfect), when (past simple).

Fill in the Blanks

Complete the sentence

NB: find words which will help to decide which tense to use, e.g. while (past continuous), after (past perfect), when (past simple).

Open Ended

What have you learned today?

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