PAST TENSES: SIMPLE, CONTINUOUS,PERFECT

We use _____________ to talk about actions that happened before another action in the past.

• PAST PERFECT

• PAST CONTINUOUS

• PAST SIMPLE

1We use _____________ to describe finished actions or situations in the past , or to say that one thing happened after another.

• PAST SIMPLE

• PAST CONTINUOUS

• PAST PERFECT

We use __________________ to talk about activities in progress at a moment in the past , to describe scenes in a story or description, or to talk about an activity in progress in the past that is interrupted by another action.

• PAST SIMPLE

• PAST PERFECT

• PAST CONTINUOUS

FOR INTERRUPTED ACTIONS IN THE PAST WE USE:

• PAST SIMPLE

• PAST PERFECT

• PAST CONTINUOUS

ACTIONS THAT STARTED AND FINISHED IN THE PAST

• PAST SIMPLE

• PAST CONTINUOUS

• PAST PERFECT

WE USE _________ FOR PARALLEL ACTIONS HAPPENING IN THE PAST

• PAST CONTINUOUS

• PAST SIMPLE

• PAST PERFECT

They .................................... (get) to the airport as the plane was landing.

• got

• had gotten

• was getting

I fell as I .................................... (run) for the bus

• ran

• was running

• run

I was happy to see her, because we .................................... (not see) each other for years.

• saw

• hasn´t seen

• hadn’t seen

Choose the sentence which is closer in meaning to the original.

I had already seen the film but I decided to watch it again last night.

• I watched the film last night for the first time.

• Last night wasn’t the first time that I had seen the film.