The document discusses the past tenses in English - the past simple and past continuous. It explains how to form the affirmative, negative, and interrogative of the past simple with regular and irregular verbs. It also discusses forming and using the past continuous tense. Key uses of each tense are described, such as using the past simple to describe actions at definite times and using the past continuous to describe ongoing actions.

1. THE PAST TENSES PAST SIMPLE AND PAST CONTINUOUS

3. SIMPLE PAST NEGATIVE: subject + didn’t + infinitive I didn’t play He didn’t arrive We didn’t eat They didn’t come INTERROGATIVE: did + subject + infinitive? Did I play? Did he arrive? Did we eat? Did they come?

4. Very important! The past of the verbs is used only in the affirmative form. She went to London The negative and interrogative forms take the infinitive. She didn’t go to London Did she go to London?

7. PAST CONTINUOUS We form the past continuous with the past form of BE + verb + -ING I was watching TV They were having tea You weren’t sleeping He wasn’t dancing Was she driving? Were we listening?

8. REMEMBER ! I, HE, SHE, IT …..WAS/WASN’T WE, YOU, THEY….WERE/WEREN’T

10. PAST CONTRAST SIMPLE PAST Short action which interrupts another action in progress Used after WHEN PAST CONTINUOUS Action which was in progress (long action) when another action happened Used after WHILE Examples: When I arrived, my mother was watching TV. The phone rang while I was having lunch

11. For 3º and 4º ESO students by Ana Cruz Castro Mouriño