Past Tenses Review

We use ... to show the event stopped one activity. For longer activities we use ... .

• Past Perfect\Past Simple

• Past Continuous\Past Simple

• Past Simple\Past Perfect

• Past Simple\Past Continuous

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1B

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

What tense do we use to mention a sequence of actions?

• Present Simple

• Past Continuous

• Past Perfect

• Past Simple

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

Past Perfect is used for ...

• saying the facts and situations in the past

• mentioning the events having happened first actions in the past

• talking how long the action was in progress in the past

Which tense is this?
"Mozart wrote more than 600 pieces of music"

• Past Simple
• Past Continouos
• Past Perfect
• Past Perfect Continuous

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1D

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

Which tenses are these?
"When we arrived, he had already gone home."

• Past Simple, Past Perfect
• Past Perfect, Past Simple
• Past Simple, Past Perfect Continuous
• Past Perfect, Past Perfect

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1B

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

At 5 o'clock yesterday  I _____ dinner.

• had
• had had
• was having
• had been having

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1D

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

Time indicators of Past Simple?

• Today

• In 2008

• Then

• Yet

Time indicators:

While, then, at that moment. Which tense do they suit?

• Present Simple

• Past Continuous

• Past Simple

• Present Perfect

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1D

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

The player was awful. We left before he _________ his game.

• was finishing

• had finished

• had been finished

When I woke up the sun _______, but later it rained.

• was shining

• was being shined

• shined