4H past perfect continous and the other two past tenses

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Road map
In this class we will 
  • discuss the past simple, the past perfect, the past perfect continuous;



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Lesson goal
At the end of this class you can:
  • apply  the past simple, the past perfect, and the past perfect continuous correctly to sentences that provide a clear context and/or signal words. 


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Past simple & past perfect

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Fill in the blanks
Yesterday
All my troubles .... so far away (to seem)
Now it .... as though there here to stay (to look)
Oh, I believe in yesterday

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Past Perfect & Past simple
Mummy and Rumpi ...... (to gather) from the priest to whom they ........ (to speak) that the vault was watched over by a security guard at night. The guard ...... (to fall) asleep and the thief ........(to enter) the building via a skylight and shinnied down a rope. The priest .... (to tell) them that the thug ...... (to open) the vault with the use of sophisticated equipment.
Tarquin Hall - The Case of the Love Commandos

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Past simple: een actie in het verleden met geen link naar het heden.  Stam+ ed/2e rijtje onregelmatige ww.

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Past perfect: een actie die in het verleden plaatsvond vóór een andere actie in het verleden.  Had + voltooid deelwoord (stam +ed/3e rijtje onregelmatige ww)

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Past simple & past perfect & past perfect continuous

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Past perfect continuous 
  • to talk about actions or situations that had continued up to the past moment we are thinking or talking about or very shortly before
  • For emphasis on how long something has been going 
  • temporary action/situation

We had been walking since sunrise so we were very hungry. 

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Past perfect continuous and past perfect
  • The past perfect continuous is used  for temporary actions and situations, longer-lasting or permanent situations get the past perfect form. 
  • The past perfect continuous is used  to emphasise the continuation of an activity, the past perfect often indicate that there is a sense of completion.

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Compare
  • I had been standing still for over two hours so my legs were quite stiff when I was finally allowed to go home.
  • The tree that blew down during last week's storm had stood there for over 300 years. 

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Looking ahead
12/10: Test GRO 1.1 - 1.4 
              Learnbeat 1.1A-F

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