1. PAST TENSES
Past simple
Past continues
Past perfect
Past perfect continuous

2. Outline:
- objectives
- Past simple
- Usage of past simple
- Structure of past simple
- Past continuous
- Meaning and using of past continuous
- Negative of past continuous
- Add Ing to verb
- Yes/ No questions
- Past perfect
- Past perfect negative
- yes/no and WH - questions of past perfect
- Past perfect continues
- Definition of the past perfect continuous
and how to form it.
- Uses of the past perfect continuous and
the structure of it.
- Verbs that do not take -ing and how to
write them in sentences.
- Challenge
- Summary
- sources

3. General objectives:
Partial goals:
1-Enable the students to know the uses of the past tenses and how to apply them in sentences in all tenses, as well as
the application of structures for past tenses in the correct way.
2-Enable students to form Negative, Yes/No and Wh- questions in the right procedure in all past tenses.
3-Enable students to know the uses of the all-past tenses and to apply the structures of this rule in the correct
sentences.
1- Enable the students to differentiate between the past possible, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect
continuous.
2-Enable the students to form the structure of past possible, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect
continuous in correct way.
3-Enable students to form correct questions and answers in past tenses.

4. PAST TENSES
Past simple
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Past continues
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Past perfect
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Past perfect continuous
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5. 1- I saw a movie yesterday.
2- I didn't see a play yesterday.
3- Last year, I traveled to Japan.
4- Last year, I didn't travel to Korea.
5- Did you have dinner last night?
Examples :
. The simple past is the basic form of
past tense in English. It is used to
talk about a completed action in a
time before now. The time of the
action can be in the recent past or
the distant past and action duration
is not important.
What is past simple ?
What is the use of past simple?
1- Regular verbs: end with ( ed)
2-Irregular verbs: verbs that have
different endings ( ex: go – went )
Structure of past simple:
PAST
simple
1- something that happened once in the past.
2- something that happened several times in the past.
3- something that was true for some time in the past.
4- we often use expressions with ago with the past
simple.
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6. Usage of past simple:
I met my wife in 1983.
We went to Spain for our holidays.
They got home very late last night.
When I was a boy, I walked a mile to school every day.
We swam a lot while we were on holiday.
They always enjoyed visiting their friends.
I lived abroad for ten years.
He enjoyed being a student.
She played a lot of tennis when she was younger.
I met my wife a long time ago
something that
happened once in
the past
something that
happened several
times in the past
something that
was true for some
time in the past
we often
use expressions
with ago with the past
simple

7. Structure of past simple:
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=QlZXd-m6Pdw
How to form past
simple tense?
click at the link below :

8. What is past continuous
and when we use it?
- It’s a kind of past tense
and use it to explain action
that happen in the past until
now.
Structure of past continuous
-Singular and plural
- Add (Ing) to verb
-Negative
-Yes/no questions
Examples and video
Exercise & H.W

9. https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Lm7BJV3sizM
video
Examples
I was playing football.
She / he / it / Dana was reading a story.
They / you / we / Dana and Alia were studing Math.

10. I
He
She
It
Dana
You
We
You
They
Dana and Alia
was
were
subject
Verb to be Main verb
Add to verb (+Ing)
For example : He was using a computer.
Add to verb (+Ing)
For example : We were staying in Paris.
When we want
to add (ING) to
the verb, we
must remember
that:

11. *She was not playing basketball.
*You were not watching T.V.
*Was she playing basketball?
*Were we watching T.V?
N &Q
Past continues form
Negative Question
I
She
He
It
Was
We
You
they
Were
Was
not
I
she
He
It
Reading
Reading?

12. Exercise :
Choose the correct answer :
1.They …….. Fling in the sky.
a) Am b) was c) were d) is
2. I was …….. The door.
a) Closing b) closeing c) close d) clos
Complete sentences:
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ast-continuous-
exercise-3.html
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1- The sunwas shining ( shine) when I woke up this morning.
2-They were speeding ( speed) on the street.

13. Past perfect
What is past perfect :
is a verb tense used to talk about
actions that were completed before
some point in the past.
Past perfect formula:
Subject + had + [past participle]
It doesn’t matter if the subject is
singular or plural; the formula doesn’t
change. e.g “ she had met him
before the party “ .
Lets start with a story !
Examples of past perfect :
1. After Sofia had finished her work , she went to
lunch.
2. After she had moved out , I found her notes.
3. I washed the floor when the painter had gone.
4. She had lived here for three years by the time we
met.
more examples
How to form past
perfect sentences :
1. negative sentences.
2. yes/no + Wh-questions .

14. Past perfect -
Negative
To make the negative form, you use ‘not’ and put it
right after ‘had’

15. Yes / no questions
Wh- questions
To create a question that will be answered with a yes or no, start
the question with Had (Hadn’t for a negative question) then add a
subject (the person or thing that had done the action) followed by
(Past Participle) form of the verb and then add the rest of the
sentence.
1- had you cleaned up the mess by the time they came home?
2- Had Adam ever spoken to the CEO before he was fired ?
Yes / no
wh- words are what, where, when, why, who, how, how
many, how much , start with wh-word, then add had, then the
followed by (Past Participle) form of the verb then add the
rest of the sentence.
1- what had they said that made him so angry ?
2- why had he agreed to work for that salary ?
wh

16. Review for Past Perfect Tense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tWxM
HmnjhA
Exercise No.1 Exercise No.2

17. Past
perfect
continuous
What is the past perfect continuous? How to form the past perfect continuous?
What are the uses of the past perfect
continuous?
The structure of past perfect continuous.
An action that started in the past continued
up until another time in the past.
We create sentence with the past perfect
continuous by using ‘had been’ and the
main verb in the –ing form.
1. To refer to an action in the past which
continued until another action took place.
2. To emphasis that something occurred
for a long time before event in the past.
3. To explain why an activity or
feeling in the past occurred.
Affirmative: Subject + had been + V ing
Negative: subject + hadn’t been + V ing
Question: Had + subject + been + V ing
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18. Uses of the past perfect
continuous
1. To refer to an action
in the past which
continued until another
action took place.
2. To emphasis that
something occurred for
a long time before
event in the past.
3. To explain why an
activity or feeling in
the past occurred.
Example: Example: Example:
- We had been
playing football
when the accident
occurred.
- I had been living in a
small house for five
years before I moved
to a big one.
- I was so tired. I
had been revising
my lessons for
hours.

19. The structure
of past perfect
continuous:
Affirmative
Negative
Question
1. Had you been finishing your homework yet?
2. Had she been training all the month?
Examples:
1. She had been sleeping for ten hours when I
woke her.
2. Khalid had been teaching English before
he got another job.
Examples:
1. I hadn’t been eating at that restaurant in a
long time.
2. My friends hadn’t been ever going to France.
Examples:
Video

20. Verbs don’t take -ing
Love Like Hate Want need
- I had been loving my cat.
- I had loved my cat.
- Mother had been needing me.
- Mother had needed me.
Examples:
Exercises

21. Challenge :
write a sentence in the past
tense that expresses the
picture.
level 1
level 2
level 3

22. Sources:
https://www.ef.com/wwen/english-resources/english-grammar/simple-past-tense/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlZXd-m6Pdw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm7BJV3sizM
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-continuous-exercise-3.html
English, t. o. (2022). Past Perfect Continuous. Retrieved from www.englishclub.com: https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verb-
tenses_past-perfect-continuous.htm
English, t. o. (2022). Past Perfect Continuous Quiz. Retrieved from www.englishclub.com:
https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verb-tenses_past-perfect-continuous-quiz.htm
Past Perfect Continuous. (2022). Retrieved from www.englishpage.com:
https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pastperfectcontinuous.html
Past Perfect Continuous Examples. (2020, May 7). Retrieved from www.youtube.com:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XEZpGHvR4w