7.2 Past Tenses

7.2 GRAMMAR:
Past Tenses: Past Simple, Past Continuous and Past Perfect Simple

Match

Match the following past tenses with their corresponding usage:

• The Past Simple is used to talk about ______________ in the past

• The Past Continuous is used to talk about ______________ in the past

• The Past Perfect Simple is used to talk about ______________ in the past

a finished actions in the past.

an ongoing action in the past.

an action that happened before another

• a finished actions in the past.

• an ongoing action in the past.

• an action that happened before another

Match

Match the sentences halves

• Just after the exam started,

• It was unfortunate because

• 
  The worst thing was they

• 
  Once, when we negotiated with a Chinese supplier, we thought

• When we finally arrived at the meeting,

we realized we had forgotten our calculators.

we discovered that the venue had changed.

hadn't told us their CEO was coming.

they'd agreed to the deal.

they'd already finished the meeting.

• we realized we had forgotten our calculators.

• we discovered that the venue had changed.

• hadn't told us their CEO was coming.

• they'd agreed to the deal.

• 
  they'd already finished the meeting.