Lesson 39: Unit 96 - Past Tenses. Grammar Revision.
A revision of the three past tenses in English – Past Simple, Past Continuous and Past Perfect – with a focus on choosing correctly between them in different contexts.
About this lesson
In this lesson we will review the three main past tenses in English: Past Simple, Past Continuous and Past Perfect. We will understand when each of them is used and how to tell them apart through real examples from everyday life. We will practise working with verbs in brackets, choosing the correct form and correcting mistakes in sentences. Through interactive exercises we will consolidate our knowledge and become more confident in using the past tenses.
40 minutes
What you'll learn
- Revise when Past Simple, Past Continuous and Past Perfect are used
- Choose the correct verb form in sentences with a past action
- Recognise a sequence of past actions and express them correctly
- Correct mistakes in sentences with past tenses
- Use Past Perfect for an action completed before another past action
Lesson vocabulary
- arrive When I arrived at work yesterday morning, someone had already phoned the office.
- phone Someone had already phoned the office before I arrived.
- broken The door of my flat was broken.
- briefcase I remembered that I had left my briefcase in the office.
- burglar By the time I arrived, the burglar had already run away.
- run away The burglar had already run away by the time I arrived.
- hang up After I had hung up my coat, I sat down and examined the menu.
- examine I sat down and examined the menu.
- pass on I asked the waiter if he had passed on my order.
- assure He assured me that he had done so.
- fetch I went out into the garden to fetch my bike.
- steal / stolen I found that somebody had stolen my bike.
- recognize When the film star entered the restaurant, I didn't recognize her.
- delay The bad weather had delayed all the flights.
- realize She realized that she had left her handbag on the bus.
In other languages: Български