Year 3: Past simple, past continuous, present perfect

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Part simple, past continuous, present perfect


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Welcome third year students!
Part simple, past continuous, present perfect


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Rewind

  • Previous classes


  • Which grammar structures do you know? 

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Today's class
Subject: revision on past simple, past continuous and the present perfect

Overview:
  • Introduction
  • Theory + example questions
  • Evaluation

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Today's aims
At the end of this class:

  • You will recognise the three grammatical structures
  • You will know when and how to apply the three grammatical structures

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Theory 
Take notes of the BLACK parts on the theory slides

(So not the PINK parts nor the slides with the PINK titles)

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Past simple (I did)
When to use it?

  • Habits
  • Facts (general truth)
  • Things that happen on a regular basis
Same as the present simple, BUT IN THE PAST!!

  • Something happened and ended in the past

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Past simple (I did)
How to recognise/ construct it? 

  • Very often ends in -ed (mind the spelling!)
  • Other times, it is the '1st row'.

Indication of time: yesterday, last week, a year ago, in 1999

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Past simple (I did)
  1. J.K. Rowling ... (to write) the Harry Potter series
  2. My brother and I .... (to laugh) a lot 
  3. Sarah often .... (to walk) her dog


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Past continuous (I was doing)
When to use it?
  • To indicate that you were in the middle of something at a certain time 



Indication of time: when, while, at the same time

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Past continuous (I was doing)
How to recognise / construct it?

  • Was / were + - ing



I / you (s) / he / she / it       was
+ playing , doing,
We / you (p) / they             were 
working, etc. 

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Past continuous (I was doing)
1. Ferdinand ..... (to shout) to my best friend, while he ..... (to walk) his dog.
2. My brother and I ..... (to laugh) until we cried, when he started telling jokes.
3. Sarah ..... still ..... (to think) about her exam, while she ...... (to cycle) home.

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Present perfect (I have done)
When to use it?

  • An action in the past has a result now
  • When we talk about a period in the past until now

Focusses on completion.

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Present perfect (I have done)
How to recognise/ use it?

Have/ has + past participle (words ending with -ed or the third row)

I / we / they / you (p) have
+ finished, lost, done,
He / she / it                  has 
been, etc. 

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Present perfect (I have done)
1. I ..... never ..... (to want) to go on an adventurous holiday.
2. My brothers and I ..... (to leave) the building for a few hours already.
3. She ..... (to know) that she is adopted since she was 6 years old.

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Wrap up
Which grammatical structures have we covered today?


Bonus question: Why is it 'have we covered' and not 'did we cover'?

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Today's aims
At the end of this class:

  • You will recognise the three grammatical structures
  • You will know when and how to apply the three grammatical structures

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Thanks for your participation!

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