The main objective of this PPT is to know when you use one or the other or these tenses. A revision of irregular tenses is necessary, too in order not to make mistakes (spelling, ...)

1. How to form these verbal tenses (revision)
How to use them together
Examples and exercises

2. Past Simple Tense
 Regular Verbs: We add –ED to the verbs
- walk → walked
- try → tried
- stop → stopped
- love → loved
 Irregular Verbs: We use the form of the second column
of your irregular verbs list.
BUILD built built
GO went gone
SWIM swam swum
PUT put put

3. Past Simple Tense
 Affirmative Sentences
- I / He walked in the park
- I / He went to the park
 Negative Sentences
- I / He didn’t walk in the park
- I / He didn’t go to the park
 Interrogative Sentences
- Did you / he walk in the park?
- Did you / he go to the park?
 Short answers
- Yes, I / he did (walk / go).
- No, I / he didn’t (walk / go)

4. Past Continuous Tense
 We use the past tense of the verb “TO BE” (was / were)
as an auxiliary verb
 We add the –ING form of the main verb.
- PLAY→ PLAYING
- SWIM → SWIMMING
- WRITE → WRITING
 Both are necessary
- We were playing …
- They were swimming…

5. Past continuous Tense
 Affirmative Sentences
- I was walking/ He was walking in the park
- I was going / He was going to the park
 Negative Sentences
- I wasn’t walking in the park
- He wasn’t going to the park
 Interrogative Sentences
- Were you walking in the park?
- Was he going to the park?
 Short answers
- Yes, I / he was (walk / go).
- No, They weren’t (walk / go)

6. Past Simple and Continous
Past Simple Past Continuous
-We use it to refer to a past action -A durative or an unfinished action in
finished in a specific time the past.
- Key Works: … ago, in 1492 (years), the - A durative action which is
other day, a long time ago, last month interrumpted by another action.
(time expressions), … -It describes the situation of an action.
- It is also used with frequency adverbs
to refer to habits in the past.
Examples:
Examples: -I was going to the beach but I changed
-Columbus discovered America in 1492. my mind.
- I was born in 1990. - While I was reading, someone phoned
- She was born 12 years ago. you.
- She always played the piano when she - She was walking in the sun and the
was a girl. birds were singing,…

7. Past Simple and Continuous
Use of WHEN and WHILE
Describe the situation in English
RINGGGG,
RINGGGGGGG!

8. Past Simple and Continuous
Use of WHEN and WHILE
When the phone RANG, he WAS PLAYING the piano.
He WAS PLAYING the piano when the phone RANG.
While he WAS PLAYING the piano, the phone RANG.
The phone RANG while he WAS PLAYING the piano.

9. Past Simple and Continuous
Use of WHEN and WHILE
These two tenses can be combined in the following way:
 WHEN + PAST SIMPLE TENSE
- When I woke up, the sun was shining
- The sun was shining when I woke up.
 WHILE + PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE
- While she was playing the piano, the doorbell rang
- The doorbell rang while she was playing the piano.
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