Showing posts with label Past. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Past. Show all posts

04 February 2009

PAST SIMPLE TENSE

1. Remember the use of the past tense:






2. Write the past tense of the following verbs here (notebook).
(Escribe los verbos en tu cuaderno y tradúcelos).

REINFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES
a. Was or were?
b. Regular or irregular?

3. Present or past? Classify the sentences according to its tense (notebook).
a. He is doing his homework now.
b. Mary works in Seville.
c. Peter did his homework yesterday.
d. They are playing the guitar at the moment.
e. They often go out on Saturdays.


4. Choose the correct alternative to form the past tense here.
(Online)


EXTENSION ACTIVITIES
USE OF THE NEGATIVE FORMS
5. Write the negative form of the following sentences (e-mail). Then write the interrogative form of the sentences:
a. Mary started a new project --> Mary didn't start a new project.

b. James came to London in January.

c. They studied English in 2003.

d. Susan broke the window yesterday.

e. Mary worked all day long yesterday.

f. I forgot your birthday!

g. He was happy to be here.

h. There were many people in the street.


29 January 2009

WAS / WERE

The past of the verb TO BE



Was or were?


Was or were? II


--> SEARCH BLOG / BUSCAR EN BLOG: "PAST TENSE". COPIAR LA TEORÍA EN EL CUADERNO Y VOLVER.

Simple past tense
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There are regular and irregular verbs. Find in the dictionary the past tense of these verbs:

20 November 2008

PAST CONTINUOUS

FORMAS
Sujeto + Be en pasado (was / were) + verbo terminado en ING.



USOS

Se usa para acciones que
utiliza para describir acciones que se estaban desarrollando en el momento del pasado al que nos estamos refiriendo y que continuaron después de ese momento:

She was having breakfast this morning at 6.15
(estaba desayunando cuando la vi, y seguiría haciéndolo después)

El pasado continuo se utiliza también para referimos a dos acciones en el pasado, una de las cuales se completó, mientras que la otra continuaba: para la primera se utiliza el "past simple" y para la segunda el "past continuous":

My mother was cooking when my father called her
(Mi madre estaba cocinando cuando mi padre la llamó)

Watch the following video:



EXPRESIONES

Se utiliza mucho WHEN (cuando) y WHILE (mientras).

--> Now go to these websites. Read the text, answer the questions and do the activities below:

Primero repasa el pasado del verbo TO BE: #1 , #2

Ahora forma frases con PAST CONTINUOUS: #3 , #4

PAST SIMPLE


PRONUNCIACIÓN DEL PASADO DE VERBOS REGULARES

Si el verbo termina en "t" o "d", se le añade "id":

-Start: started (staartid)

-Mind: minded (maindid)

Si el verbo termina en cualquier otro SONIDO, se le añade "t" o "d":

-Look: looked (lukt)

-Stop: stopped (stopt)

-play: played (pleid)