Past Tense Guide & Practice

Types of Past Tense

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

Activities

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 Join.Quizizz.com Past Perfect vs. Past Continuous    623779 Past Perfect vs. Simple Past   910579 Prepositions of Time #1:    379571 Prepositions of Time #2:    317937

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Past Experience Narrative Assignment

300~500 words

Describe 1-3 of the major events on your timeline.

Try to use a variety of past tense forms.

• Set the scene (background information, context) 
• What happened? (where when, how) 
• Why was this important to you?

EGL115-08: Bring a printout of your first draft to class TOMORROW! (March 29)

You can see Jeff’s example here.

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Week#3 Task: (Due March 25)
Create a Google Doc in your Folder and title it ' Your Name, Student #, Timeline Sentences'. Write at least 10 sentences based on your 'Life Timeline'. Use a variety of tenses and include at least one sentence of each type below.

Jeff’s Example