1.6 Cambridge Past Tenses

• Engels
• MBO

Plan for today

- Homework

- Book review Deadline 7 November 2021

- Presentations

- Past tenses

Homework

Homework this week 14 - 15 

Homework next class 16, 17, 18, 19

Book review

A summary is written in your own words. 

A summary contains only the ideas of the original text. (It is not a retelling of the whole story).

Do not insert any of your own opinions, interpretations, deductions or comments into a summary.

A summary is no more than 3/4 of a page of A4 in text size 10. 

Presentations

4 presentations per week

5 minutes each

About a topic you picked. E.g. what you've done so far in your studies, or a moment of pride, etc.

Feedback given on your presentation and speaking skills

Part of the Cambridge examination

Presentation topics

Past tenses

past simple, past continuous, past perfect

Past tenses

Past simple

past continuous

past perfect

past perfect continuous

Past tenses 

- ALL past tenses take place in the past and have therefore ENDED.

- One way or another, there is always a way to figure out that it happened in the past.

Differences

past simple & past continuous: 

past simple is a situation or a once off event in the past, past continuous is something which was happening during a certain time in the past.

Past perfect simple & past perfect continuous: 

Both happen before another past tense

Past perfect simple: situation or once of event before something else in the past 

Past perfect continuous: something which was happening before something else in the past

Match the tenses to the sentences

Past perfect simple

Past simple

Past Continuous

Past Perfect Continuous

Match the tenses to the sentences

Something happened in the past, before something else in the past.

Something happened in the past, and you know when.

Something was happening in the past, before something else in the past.

Something that was happening at a certain time in the past.

Past perfect

Past simple

Past Continuous

Past Perfect Continuous

She'd been paying attention all lesson but now she was getting bored.

1. Past Perfect continuous / past simple
2. Past continuous / past continuous
3. Past Perfect Continuous / past continuous
4. past perfect continuous / past perfect simple

While Sophie WAS SLEEPING , Jenny FINISHED the presentation.

1. Past perfect - past simple
2. Past continuous - past simple
3. Past continuous - past perfect
4. Past simple - past perfect

I was really tired because I ........ well lately.

1. hadn't been sleeping
2. didn't sleep
3. was sleeping
4. slept

Present Perfect / Past Simple / Past Continuous?


I ... (enjoy) the sun last Sunday.

1. enjoyed
2. have enjoyed
3. had enjoyed
4. had been enjoying

I failed my test because I ............... for it at all.

1. studied
2. have studied
3. hadn't studied
4. hadn't been studying