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In Unit 6 of The Past sentences I learned the basic fundamental creation of the four aspects of past tenses which are :
Past Simple
Past Continuous
Past Perfect
Past Perfect Continuous
Each one of these four aspects includes a different form of structure and a different form of usage. They really correspond and feature present tenses but in usage of the past.
For e.g. if the verb to be is in the present simple ( I am ) then in the past it will be ( I was) same with the continuous form and the perfect form.
-Past Simple form consists of different verbs: regular by which when used you have to add 'd' and 'ed' in the end of the verb when affirmative sentences are used. In negative sentences the 'd' and 'ed' turn into did not / didn't. The question form just changes the places of the Subject and the 'did'.
As for irregular verbs they change completely: see-saw , buy-bought, swim-swam etc.
Past Simple Usages: For past action when the time is given, when the action clearly took place at a definite time even though this time is not mentioned etc.
It is best to learn and fix the errors that students commit when using past simple by games, creating curriculum vitae, interviews and roles plays etc.
-Past Continuous is formed by the past time of the auxiliary verb 'to be' changed as was/were + the present simple Verb + ing
The usages of past continuous: It is used for interrupted past actions, it can also express an action which began before that time and probably continued after it.
BIG NOTE: P.Continuous always requires some form of time reference.
Sample activate stage teaching ideas are:
Telling stories about personal experiences and using past continuous/ use diaries and journals.
- Past Perfect in affirmative form is created as: Subject+had+past participle
Past perfect its very easy to be used and it is the past equivalent of the present perfect- Have turns into Had
E.g. When I arrived at the gate, the airplane had gone.
- Past Perfect Continuous's structure is:
Subject + had +been+verb+ing
When speaking the English language the past perfect continuous it's not used a lot rather it is used to talk about longer actions or situations in the past that had been going on continuously up to the past moment we are thinking about it.
BIG NOTE: this tense included two auxiliary verbs which are: the verb 'had' and 'been'
an example for a Past Perfect Continuous sentence: I HAD BEEN WATCHING IRON MAN 2 FOR ONE HOUR, BEFORE SOMEBODY DISTURBED ME.
