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PAST SIMPLE = "I slept well", "I didn't sleep well", "Did you sleep well?"
PAST CONTINUOUS = "I was sleeping well", "I wasn't sleeping well", "Were you sleeping well?"
PAST PERFECT = "I had slept well", "I had not slept well", "Had she slept well?"
PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS = "I had been sleeping since 10 o'clock last night", "I had not slept well at all", "Did you sleep well?"
PAST SIMPLE = "When we arrived, the dog ran happily."
[Subject] + [verb in the past tense (ran)]
REGULAR e.g. (-ed/-d) / IRREGULAR e.g. drink > drank, go > went, know > knew, pay > paid, sleep > slept.
When we arrived, [in the past] and the dog ran [in the past]
Past simple tense is used in order in which past events happened... (past at definite 'time' when given, or not, asked in question).
We arrived, first, and then the dog ran.
I picked up the dog leash, and then put the leash on the dog, we walked out the door, we went to the park.
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PAST CONTINUOUS = "When we arrived, the dog was running happily."
[Subject] + [verb 'to be' in the past tense = 'was/were'] + [verb (-ing)]
Past continuous tense describes an action that was in progress at [a specific past time].
e.g. the 'running' had already started and was still in progress at the time we arrived.
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PAST PERFECT = "When we arrived, the dog had run happily."
[Subject] + [verb 'had'] + [verb past participle [run]
Past perfect tense is used to express the [past] [in the past].
e.g. an action that happened before another past action.
We arrived, [in the past], and I want to say what happened BEFORE that [past time].
The running had finished BEFORE I arrived.
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PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS = "When we arrived, the dog had been running happily."
[Subject] + [aux. verbs 'had' + 'been'] + [verb (-ing)
Past perfect continuous tense is used to express
the duration /or continuity... of a longer action [in the past]
BEFORE another [past] action
e.g. the running had continued for a period of time BEFORE we arrived.
(action doesn't express whether running is still continuing or completed).
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ACTIVATE STAGE IDEAS:
Primary focus is on STT...
Use visual prompts or activities that are 'Question/Answer' based as often as possible, for students to use language freely as much as possible to improve fluency.
PAST SIMPLE =
Narrating storytelling in conjuction with [past continuous/past perfect]
Curriculum Vitae AND Interview role-play (employee/employer)
Discussing past holidays/major events,etc.
PAST CONTINUOUS =
Detective games: Where [were] you yesterday at 9:00 p.m.? ... What [were] you doing? etc.
Use diaries/journals: What [were] you doing at 5:00 p.m. on Monday?
Telling stories: Narrating and describing a story using a combobation of [past simple] and [past continuous].
PAST PERFECT =
Story telling/ or finnish sentences... writing in conjunction with other past tenses.
Give students a 'final' situation and ask them ...
to think of reasons why that situation had happened.
Students see a story and then retell the story backwards...
starting from the end and describing what had happened before.
PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS =
Story telling/ or asking the student to finish a prompt sentences past perfect continuous tense...
Give a student a 'prompt' standing in front of the classroom ...
students have to guess what the student had been doing in the past.
