The document discusses different tenses used to talk about the past in English: 1. The past simple tense is used to talk about completed actions or situations in the past. It uses the past form of verbs like "met", "went", "lived". 2. The past continuous tense uses "was/were" and the -ing form of verbs to talk about ongoing or repeated actions in the past, interrupted actions, or actions happening around a specific time. 3. The past perfect tense uses "had" and the past participle to talk about actions completed before something else in the past. 4. The past perfect continuous tense uses "had been" and the -ing form to talk

1. 1. Past Simple:
Past tense expresses an action or situation that was
started and finished in the past. The past tense is used:
- to talk about the past,
- to talk about hypothesis-things that are imagined
rather than time,
- and for politeness.
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2. Uses:
• Things that happened once in the past. For examples:
– I met my husband in 2015.
– We went to KomPong Soum on our holiday.
• Something that was true sometime in the past.
– I lived in KomPong Spour ten years ago.
– She played regularly tennis when she was young.
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3. • Something that happened again and again in the past.
– When I was 10, I walked a mile to school everyday.
– We swam a lot while we were on holiday.
• We often use phrase with “ago” in the past form,
– I met my friend for a long time ago.
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4. Form:
• Positive: [S+ Past Verb+ Obj]
– Tom lived in LA when he was a baby.
– He worked 12 hours a day when he was 20.
• Negative: We use “did + not” to make negative with
past tense: For examples:
– They didn’t go to Spain last year.
– We didn’t get home until late night.
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5. • Question: we use “did” to form question: For
examples:
– Did you live abroad in 2005?
– Who discovered Penicillin?
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6. 2. Past Continuous:
The past continuous is a form of past tense of
“be” with “–ing” form of the verb.
Form:
[ S+ was/were+ verb-ing+ obj]
[ Was/Were+ S+ verb-ing+?]
[ S+ was/were+ not+ verb-ing]
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7. Uses:
• For something which interrupted anther action in the
past.
– When I got home, the children were doing their homework.
• It’s also used to begin a story.
– Last week as I was driving to work. It happened that…
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8. • For something that happened before and after a
particular time:
– It was eight o’clock; I was writing a letter.
Compare:
– At eight o’clock, I wrote some letters.
• To show something that happening again and again
– I was practicing everyday, three time a day.
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9. 3. Past Perfect
Use:
• When we talk about something that happened before
something else in the past.
– Mary rang John at 8:15 yesterday, but he had already left
home.
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10. 3. Past Perfect
Compare:
– James had cooked breakfast when we got up.
– James cooked breakfast when we got up.
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11. 4. Past Perfect Continuous [Englishpage.com]
Uses:
• Duration Before Something in the Past
– They had been talking for over an hour before Tony
arrived.
– She had been working at that company for three years
when it went out of business.
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12. 4. Past Perfect Continuous [Englishpage.com]
Uses:
• Cause of Something in the Past
– Jason was tired because he had been jogging.
– Sam gained weight because he had been overeating.
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13. 4. Past Perfect Continuous [Englishpage.com]
Compare:
• Past Continuous vs. Past Perfect Continuous
– He was tired because he was exercising so hard.
– He was tired because he had been exercising so hard.
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14. 1. Present Simple [Englishpage.com]
Uses:
• Repeated Actions
– I play football.
– She does not play tennis..
• Facts or Generalizations
– California is not in the United Kingdom.
– Windows are made of glass.
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