Past Tense Guide & Activities

Types of Past Tense

Past Tenses Handout

Verb Forms

1. Simple Past I went to university in Philadelphia.   

2. Past Progressive (Past Continuous)  + Simple Past

 I was walking to the library when I saw her.   

3  Past Habitual

I used to eat an entire large pizza by myself when I was a teenager. 

4. Present Perfect

 I have been married for 19 years. 

         

 5. Past Perfect

 I had known my wife for 6 months when we decided to get married. 

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Reference

• Past Tenses Handout
• EnglishPage.com Guides
  Simple Past, Past Continuous, Past Perfect, Past Perfect Continuous, Used to
• |Daily Writing Tips: 9 Forms of the Past Tense
• Video: English Past Tenses
• Prepositions of Time
  later/after  since/ago/ before ,  by/until, during /while, on/in/at
• After / Before / Ago / Since / For Explanation and Practice

Activities

Join.Quizizz.com

• Past Simple: 391658
• Prepositions of Time #1: 056651
• ago, since, from,for: 966827
• Simple Past vs. Past Continuous: 530505

From Englishpage.com

Verb Tense Exercise 3 Simple Past and Past Continuous Verb Tense Exercise 11 Simple Past and Past Perfect Simple Past, Present Perfect, and Past Perfect Verb Tense Exercise 13 Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous Reading Level Test#1

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Assignment: Timeline Sentences

On your personal Google Doc Notes, write at least 10 sentences based on your 'Life Timeline'. Use a variety of tenses and prepositions. Do you best to use correct grammar,but focus more on being interesting than being perfect :)

Jeff’s Example