The document provides examples of using different past tenses in English sentences. It shows the students chatting in the past progressive tense until the bell rang. Then they went to the classroom in the simple past tense. Another example uses the past progressive and simple past tense to describe one person reading the newspaper while another was cooking. Further examples illustrate using the past perfect tense to describe actions that were completed before other past events occurred.

1. An overview of the past tenses in English

2. The students were chatting when the bell rang .

3. They went to the classroom.

4. While he was reading the newspaper, his wife was cooking .

5. 7:00 – 8:00 (Cleaned the bedroom) 8:30 – (Mother arrived) 8:30 – (Checked emails) I had (already ) cleaned my bedroom when my mother arrived . I was checking my emails.

6. 9:00 – 10:00 (Did my homework) 10:00 (Friend called ) I had been doing my homework for one hour when my friend called me.