Past Tense Review 11°

Past Tense Review 11°

​Docente: Maura Triviño

• Structure: Subject + verb in past (regular/irregular)

• Example: She visited Paris last year.

• Function/Purpose: To express completed actions in the past.

• Type of Situation: Completed action in the past.

• Reality: Action that actually occurred.

• Real-Life Example: In 2010, scientists discovered new marine species.

• Importance: Essential for narrating specific past events or historical facts.

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​Past Simple tense

• Structure: Subject + had + past participle

• Example: She had left before I arrived.

• Function/Purpose: To show that an action occurred before another past action.

• Type of Situation: Sequence of past events.

• Reality: Completed action before another past event.

• Real-Life Example: The factory had already closed when the inspection arrived.

• Importance: Key for indicating the order of events and clarifying what happened first, essential for coherence in complex narratives.

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​Past Perfect

• Structure: Subject + had + been + verb with -ing

• Example: He had been working for two hours when it started to rain.

• Function/Purpose: To indicate the duration of an action before another event in the past.

• Type of Situation: Prolonged action before another event.

• Reality: Prolonged action that occurred before another.

• Real-Life Example: The archaeologists had been excavating for weeks when they found the artifact.

• Importance: Important for emphasizing the duration of an action and its influence on the context of another past event, highlighting effort or time invested.

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​Past Perfect Continous

​Past Perfect Continous

​Use of Tenses Chart

• Structure: Subject + was/were + verb with -ing

• Example: I was watching TV when you called.

• Function/Purpose: To describe actions in progress at a specific time.

• Type of Situation: Interrupted action in progress in the past.

• Reality: Action interrupted while in progress.

• Real-Life Example: Yesterday, while it was raining, the students were playing indoors.

• Importance: Useful for adding context or detail to past actions in progress, providing more depth to narratives.

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​Past Continous

Multiple Choice

En inglés, para poner los verbos regulares en pasado les añadimos...

• -end

• -ed

• -ing

Multiple Choice

Escoge la respuesta correcta para la siguiente frase.

Yo estuve jugando video juegos ayer.

• playing football.

• I was playing video games yesterday.

• Yesterday played video games.

Multiple Choice

Acciones que empezaron en el pasado y no importa la fecha. Acciones que empezaron en el pasado y tienen repercusiones en el presente.

• Past simple.

• Present Perfect.

• Past Perfect.

Multiple Choice

Acciones que sucedieron antes de otra acción en el pasado.

• Simple past.

• Present Perfect.

• Past Perfect.

Multiple Choice

¿Cómo sería el negativo del past perfect de la siguiente oración?

I had danced before I ate my dinner.

• I had danced not

• I had not danced.

Multiple Choice

The PAST perfect is formed by...

• HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE

• HAD + PAST PARTICIPLE

• AM/ IS/ ARE + PAST PARTICIPLE

• AM / IS / ARE + V-ING

Multiple Choice

Cristiano Ronaldo

• had had represented Portugal

• has Portugal represented

• had represented Portugal

• hasn´t represented Portugal

Multiple Choice

How long had you been studying English?

• I have studied English since many years

• I had studied English for many years

• I have studied English four years ago

Multiple Choice

Shakira ....composed songs in Arabic, English, Portuguese, Spanish and French

• have

• hasn't

• had

• hadn´t

Multiple Choice

I had never______ to paris

• visited

• visit

• visited yet

Multiple Choice

I _____ a teacher since 1998

• had been

• had been

• hadn't been

Multiple Choice

____ he read the book that you gave me yesterday?

• Has

• Have

• Hasn't

• haven't

Fill in the Blank

¿Cuál es el auxiliar en el Past Perfect Continuous Tense?

Fill in the Blank

Traduce: You had been sleeping for more than fourteen hours.

Fill in the Blank

Traduce: ¿Habías estado trabajando?

Fill in the Blank

Traduce: Habíamos estado discutiendo durante días cuando Sara encontró una solución.

Multiple Select

Selecciona los usos del Pasado Perfecto Continuo:

• Acción que inició en el pasado y afecta el presente.

• La acción comenzó en momento especifico en el pasado y siguió en progreso hasta que inició otra acción.

• Describir experiencias en el pasado.

• Demostrar la causa y efecto en el pasado.

Multiple Choice

¿Qué pronombres usan el auxiliar "had been"?

• I, you, we, they

• he, she , it

• Todos

Multiple Choice

Selecciona la forma correcta del verbo:

• makeing

• making

• mading

Multiple Choice

Selecciona la oración correcta:

• Who they had been calling?

• Who had been they calling?

• Who had they been calling?

Multiple Choice

Escoge la traducción al español de la siguiente oración.

They were not practicing basketball last night.

• Ellos comieron pizza

• Ellos no juegan practicando basquetbol

• Ellos no estuvieron practicando básquetbol la noche pasada.

• Ninguna de las anteriores.

Multiple Choice

Y si los verbos son irregulares, para ponerlos en pasado debo...

• añadimos -ed

• me los tengo que aprender, ni modo

• me los puedo inventar

Multiple Choice

Last month I ______ ________ to La Paz.

• were traveling

• was travel

• was traveling

Multiple Choice

Like, study, look, ask, play, son verbos...

• regulares

• anormales

• irregulares

Multiple Choice

Selecciona la oración que mejor describa esta imagen.

• I was reading the newspaper.

• Carlos and Juan were washing the plates.

• They were cooking the lunch.

Multiple Choice

Andrew ___________ TV yesterday.

• wotch

• watch

• watched

Fill in the Blank

Escribe una oración en pasado continuo que describa esta imagen.

Multiple Choice

My friends __________ to Paris last year.

• went

• go

• don´t go

Multiple Choice

cooking / She / arrived / was / I / when

• Was She cooking when I arrived.

• She was cooking when I arrived.

• She cooking was when I arrived.

Multiple Choice

We _________ at a restaurant to celebrate my birthday

• read

• ate

• draw

Multiple Choice

¿Cuál es la estructura para pasado continuo?

• sujeto + verbo auxiliar + verbo principal + complemento

• sujeto + verbo principal + verbo auxiliar + complemento

• verbo principal + sujeto + complemento

• verbo principal + complemento + sujeto

Multiple Choice

Last summer I _________ _________ on the beach.

• ate shells

• visited shells

• collected shells

Fill in the Blank

They were...... soccer in the park

Multiple Choice

What did you do at home yesterday?

• I played the piano.

• I play the guitar.

• I play the piano.

Open Ended

Write a sentence in the past continuous

Multiple Choice

Did you use the computer?

• Yes, I do.

• Yes, I did.

• No, I don´t.

Multiple Choice

El auxiliar de pasado continuo es:

• am, is, are

• was ,were

• did

Multiple Choice

¿Cuál es el presente y el pasado de ser/estar?

• have / had

• be / was, were

• am / were

• Usage: Used for actions completed in the past.

• Formation: Formed by using the past form of the verb (adding -ed for regular verbs).

• Example: "She visited her grandmother last week."

Past Simple

​Past continous

• Usage: Used to express an action that occurred before another action in the past.

• Formation: Formed with "had" + past participle of the verb.

• Example: "He had finished his homework before dinner."

Past Perfect

• Usage: Used to emphasize the duration of an action that was in progress before another action in the past.

• Formation: Formed with "had been" + verb in gerund (-ing).

• Example: "She had been studying for hours before the exam started."

Past Perfect Continous

• Usage: Used for actions that were in progress at a specific moment in the past.

• Formation: Formed with the verb "to be" in the past (was/were) + verb in gerund (-ing).

• Example: "They were playing soccer at 3 PM."