2. SIMPLE PAST

3. USOS
• Expresa acciones acabadas en un
periodo de tiempo también acabado:
 “Yesterday we had a wonderful at the
theme park”
 I went home as soon as we finished
packing.

4. PAST CONTINUOS
• Afirmativo: He was timing us up on his stop
watch.
• Interrogativo: Were you waiting at the bus stop?
• Negativo: They weren´t listening to you.

5. USOS
• Se utiliza para recalcar la duración de
una acción pasada en un periodo de
tiempo también acabado:
“Yesterday I was the whole afternoon revising
for the final exams”
• Con la partícula “always” para mostrar
disgusto por una acción que se repite:
• “He is always taking my things without
permission”
• En combinación con un pasado simple para
indicar la más larga de dos acciones
pasadas.
“I was having a shower when the phone rang”

6. • En combinación con otro pasado continuo
para indicar dos acciones pasadas,
simultáneas y de más o menos la misma
duración.
“While I was knitting, he was reading the
newspaper”
• Future in the past: Indica una acción que
“era futura” en el momento al cual hace
referencia la oración.
They were coming for lunch but the baby got
ill.
I didn´t phone him so he didn´t know that I
was having an operation on Monday.

7. PAST PERFECT
• Afirmative:
I had finished my lunch.
• Interrogative:
 Had they met before?
• Negative:
 She hadn´t been there before.

8. USOS
• Expresa una acción pasada que tuvo lugar con
anterioridad a otra acción, que aparece en
pasado simple, o a un periodo de tiempo pasado.
• When you rang her up, she had left.
• At 5.00 I had already filled in all the
information.

9. • Pasado simple y continuo
Ron: What / you / do / between 8 and 11 o´clock last night?
Liz: I / visit/ my friend Jim.
Ron: What time/ you / arrive/ at Jim´s flat/?
Liz: I / get / there / at about 8.30.
Ron: Jim / wait / for you/ when/ you / get/ there/ ?
Liz: No. He / not Know/ that / I / come.
PAST SIMPLE, CONTINUOUS OR PERFECT
We ____ (miss) the beginning of the play because it _____
(already/start) when we_____( arrive).
I ___ (not/recognise) my old teacher because I _____
(not/see) her for 15 years.
The poor chap _____(die) . All we could do was comfort him.
The poor chap ______ (die) early next morning.
When Elizabeth I ___ (die) in 1603, she ______ (reign) for
over 40 years.
I ____ (write) to the shop to ask if my books ______ (arrive).
Henry ______ (come) back from holiday to find that someone
_____ (break) into his house.