Past Tenses Review

Past Tenses Review

Verbs Review

Do you know the past tense of these verbs???

Multiple Choice

Cry

• cried

• cryed

Multiple Choice

Take

• Took

• Taken

Multiple Choice

Play

• Played

• Playing

Time to practice a little more

Use your books for this part in page 5 and page 156 and 157.

The end!!!

We did it!!

Multiple Choice

Go

• Done

• Went

Simple Past or Past Perfect

Do you know which one goes here??

Past Simple

Describing the main events of a story.

Completed past action.

Actions and situations that started and finished in the past.

A series of actions that happened one after the other.

Formula

Subject + Verb in past tense + complement.

When needed use did as the auxiliary for the past tense.

Multiple Choice

Mike ___ a camera three days ago.

• buyed
• bought
• buied

Multiple Choice

I ______ to the shop to buy the shirt I _____ the day before.

• had gone  /   saw
• been   /  had bought 
• went  /  had seen

Multiple Choice

We left the town 7 years ago because my parents  __________________ (FIND) better jobs.

• had found
• found

Multiple Choice

Chuck had left the house before I  ________________(CALL).

• called
• had called

Multiple Choice

We use Past Perfect for an action which finished in the past and whose result is visible in the present.

• Yes
• No

Multiple Choice

We use Past Perfect for an action which happened before another past action or before a stated time in the past.

• Yes
• No

Multiple Choice

We use Past Simple for an action which happened at a definite time in the past; the time is stated, already known or implied.

• Yes
• No

Multiple Choice

We ___ to High school last year.

• goed
• were
• went

Multiple Choice

He ____ football at 11.

• played
• had
• lived

Multiple Choice

Yesterday I _____ TV.

• looked
• watched
• saw

Past Continuous (Progressive)

Setting a scene.

An activity in progress around the time in the past.

To talk about actions that were in progress at a particular time in the past.

To talk about an action that was in progress when another action took place (for the shorter action, which happened while the longer action was in progress, we use Past Simple)

When she was skiing down the slope, another skier crashed into her.

To describe background states for other events.

Formula

Subject + was/were + verb(-ing) + complement.

Multiple Choice

My parents ____ (work) when I came home.

• My parents was work when I came home.

• My parents were work when I came home.

• My parents was working when I came home.

• My parents were working when I came home.

Multiple Choice

They ____ (not/do) their homework yesterday at 3 o'clock

• was not doing

• were not doing

• was not do

Multiple Choice

We ____ (play) video games yesterday at 3 o'clock.

• were play

• was playing

• were playing

• was play

Simple Past and Past Continuous

Can you choose the correct option when this 2 are together???

Multiple Choice

Susie ____________ (watch) a film when she _________ (hear) the noise.

• watched / was hearing

• watching / heard

• watched / was hearing

• was watching / heard

Multiple Choice

When you _________ (arrive) at the party, who _____________ (be) there?

• were arriving / was

• arrived / was

• was arriving / were

• arrived / was being

Multiple Choice

I______________ (sit) in a cafe when you ___________ (call) .

• sat / were calling

• was sitting / called

• sitting / were calling

• sat / called

Past Participle Verbs

Do you know this verb?

Multiple Choice

Past participle of see

• Saw

• See

• Seed

• Seen

Multiple Choice

Past participle

• Run

• Ran

• Runned

• Roun

Multiple Choice

What is the past participle form of sleep?

• sleep

• sleeped

• slepd

• slept

Multiple Choice

What is the past participle form of swim?

• swam

• swum

• swummed

• swamed

Multiple Choice

What is the past participle form of write?

• writen

• written

• wrote

• wroten

Multiple Choice

eat

• eaten
• aten
• eten

Multiple Choice

fly

• flew 
• fly
• flown

Past Perfect

Clarifying, if necessary, that one past event happened before another.

We use Past Perfect Simple to talk about an action that happened before a particular time in the past or before another past action (for the action that happened first, we use the Past Perfect)

The party had finished by midnight.

Beasley had scored two goals before the coach decided to substitute him.

Formula

Subject + had + verb in past participle + complement.

Multiple Choice

We were late for the plane because we ________ our passports.

• hadn't forgotten

• had forgot

• forgot

• had forgotten

Multiple Choice

You ________ for the test, so you were very nervous.

• hasn't been stydying

• hadn't studyed

• hadn't studied

• weren't studying

Multiple Choice

He ______ only twice in his life before the accident.

• had drived

• driven

• has driven

• had driven

Multiple Choice

He ________ to Cape Town before 1997.

• hasn't been

• hadn't been

• didn't be

• wasn't