Past Simple | English To Connect

It is used for finished actions, states or habits in the past with a past time reference ➣ yesterday ➣ last week ➣ at 2 o’clock ➣ in 2003 ➣ when I was born

Last week a new student from China joined our class. She came in, introduced herself, and began to talk about her country. She showed us in a map where she was from.

FORM

Affirmative	Negative	Interrogative
I worked	I did not work ✄didn’t	Did I work?
You understood	You did not understand	Did you understand?
He slept	He did not sleep	Did he sleep?
She thought	She did not think	Did she think?
It worked	It did not work	Did it work?
We studied	We did not study	Did we study?
You went together	You did not go together	Did you go together?
They learnt	They did not learn	Did they learn?

Famous people

reference: New Generation Colin Granger Heinemann

Listen to what happened to Tony last weekend

First choose a, b or c and then choose the right answer for the 7 sentences:

reference: English for Life Pre-Intermediate Oxford

Here you have the script if you need to read it

Listen and put the pictures in chronological order

Here you have the script if you need to read it

answers: a 5 , b 4 , c 2 , d 6 , e 3 , f 1

reference: English for Life Pre-Intermediate Oxford

Who were these people

reference: New Generation Colin Granger Heinemann

VERB ➨ TO BE

reference: English for Adults Burlington

Reading ➢ The Elephant Man

reference: New Generation Colin Granger Heinemann

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The English Tenses

The English Tenses. Perfect and Continuous.

Table of Tenses All English Tenses

Present Simple	Present Continuous	Past Simple	Past Continuous
She eats	You are eating	She ate	You were eating
She does not eat	You are not eating	She did not eat	You were not eating
Does she eat?	Are you eating?	Did she eat?	Were you eating?

Future Simple	Conditional Simple	Present Perfect	Past Perfect
I will eat	I would eat	He has eaten	He had eaten
I will not eat	I would not eat	He has not eaten	He had not eaten
Will I eat?	Would I eat?	Has he eaten?	Had he eaten?

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Present Perfect Continuous	I have been eating

Past Perfect Continuous	I had been eating

Future Continuous	I will be eating

Future Perfect	I will have eaten

Future Perfect Continuous	I will have been eating

Conditional Continuous	I would be eating

Conditional Perfect	I would have eaten

Conditional Perfect Continuous	I would have been eating



PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS	He has been eating He has not been eating Has he been eating?	putting emphasis on the duration* (not the result)* action that recently stopped or is still going on/ finished action that influences the present ————————

PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS	He had been eating He had not been eating Had he been eating?	action taking place before a certain time in the past interchangeable with past perfect (emphasis on the duration) ————————-

FUTURE GOING TO	He is going to eat He is not going to eat Is he going to eat?	planned decision or conclusion with regard to the future

FUTURE CONTINUOUS	He will be eating He will not be eating Will he be eating?	action that is going on at a certain time in the future action that is sure to happen in the near future –

FUTURE PERFECT	He will have eaten He will not have eaten Will he have eaten? – –	action that will be finished at a certain time in the future

FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS	He will have been eating He will not have been eating Will he have been eating? – –	action taking place before a certain time in the future putting emphasis on the course of an action

CONDITIONAL PERFECT	He would have eaten He would not have eaten Would he have eaten? – –	action that might have taken place in the past third conditional: If I had seen that, I would have helped

CONDITIONAL PERFECT CONTINUOUS	He would have been eating He would not have been eating Would he have been eating?	third conditional unfulfilled result of the action in the if-clause

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