The document discusses different past tenses in English including the past simple, past continuous, and past perfect. It provides examples of their forms and uses to express completed past actions, past habits, interrupted or ongoing activities, and actions that took place before other past events. Irregular verb forms are also covered through examples and an interactive exercise.

1. Tenses
Past Simple
Past Continuous
Past Perfect

2. Past Simple
 Form
+ : verb + -ED (played, stayed) / 2nd form (tore, took, grew, knew, rose)
-: didn’t + verb (He didn’t play well.
I didn’t take his advice seriously.)
?: Did+ subject + verb? (Did he play badly? Did know it?)
WAS/WERE! (He was unemployed. He wasn’t unqualified. Was he reliable?)
 Pronunciation:
/d/ remembered, screamed, pleased, carried (zveneči soglasniki)
/t/ walked, stopped, crossed, noticed, chased (nezveneči soglasniki ch, sh, x,
ss)
/id/ decided, started, landed, printed (ko se glagol končuje na t ali d)
Do we know forms of irregular verbs? Let’s give it a try!

3. Irregular verbs: fill in the table
Slovene Infinitive Past Simple Past Participle
1 SET
2 PAY
3 SELL
4 HOLD
5 LEND
6 LIE
7 RING
8 DRIVE
9 FALL
10 FLY
11 SPLIT
12 THROW

4. …and checking…
1. Postaviti- set-set-set
2. Plačati-pay-paid-paid
3. Prodati-sell-sold-sold
4. Obdržati-hold-held-held
5. Posoditi-lend-lent-lent
6. Ležati-lie-lay-lain
7. Zvoniti-ring-rang-rung
8. Voziti-drive-drove-driven
9. Pasti-fall-fell-fallen
10. Leteti-fly-flew-flown
11. Razdeliti- split-split-split
12. Vreči-throw-threw-thrown

5. Past Simple - USE
 Completed past actions (no relation to the present!)
J. Sainsbury set up a dairy in 1869.
 Past Habits
They paid their instalments regularly every month.
 Typical time expressions
In January/1994/summer
At 5 p.m./Christmas/3 o’clock
On Tuesday/ 15th of May/New Year’s Day
Last year/3 months ago/when I was young…

6. Past Continuous
 Form:
 Use:
POINTS OF TIME
(Mr Johansen was talking with some clients yesterday at 4.30.)
INCOMPLETE ACTIVITIES
(Mrs White was reading the annual business report on her way to work.)
INTERRUPTED ACTIVITES
(Paul was doing some filing when the fire broke out)
+ - ?
I
He/ She/ It
was working was not working
(wasn’t)
Was I working?
You/
We /They
were working were not working Were you working?

7. Sequences of tenses
1. Past Simple, Past Simple
When the phone rang a few times, Ed answered it.
2. Past Continuous, Past Continuous
While Linda was talking on the phone, Sally was typing a letter.
3. Past Continuous, Past Simple
While Sally was typing a letter her boss asked her about some documents.

8. Past Perfect
 Form: had + past participle
He had written a report.
She hadn’t answered the phone.
Had he taken the documents with?
 USE
To express a past action that happened BEFORE other past actions.
When I arrived at the office, the meeting had already started.
 TYPICAL WORDS
Just, already, never; as soon as, after, before

9. Exercises- Translation of sentences
Translate the sentences:
a) Varnostnik je opazil razbito okno, ko je hodil okoli skladišča.
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b) Nekdo v zadnjem delu dvorane je prekinil gospo White, medtem ko
je predstavljala nov mednarodni projekt.
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c) While my PA _______________ (finalize) arrangements for my trip
to Brazil, the clients _________________ (ring) up to cancel the visit.
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d) The auditors _______________ (notice) a large unauthorised
withdrawal when they ______________ (look) through the account.
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e) A headhunter _______ (approach) her while she ________ (present)
the results of the recent survey.
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f) Ko so prevzeli podjetje v tujini, so postavili na cesto več kot 80 ljudi.
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10. Exercises- Translation of sentences
a) Varnostnik je opazil razbito okno, ko je hodil okoli skladišča.
The security guard noticed the broken window, while he was walking around
the warehouse.
b) Nekdo v zadnjem delu dvorane je prekinil gospo White, medtem ko je
predstavljala nov mednarodni projekt.
Somebody in the last part of the hall interrupted Mrs White while she was
giviing a a new international project.
c) While my PA was finalizing (finalize) arrangements for my trip to Brazil, the
clients rang (ring) up to cancel the visit.
Medtem ko je tajnica urejala še zadnje priprave za moje potovanje v Brazilijo,
so poklicali kupci (stranke), da bi odpovedali obisk.
d) The auditors noticed (notice) a large unauthorised withdrawal when they were
looking (look) through the account.
Revizorji so opazili velik nedovoljen dvig, ko so pregledovali račun.
e) A headhunter approached (approach) her while she was presenting (present) the
results of the recent survey.
Iskalec najboljših kadrov je pristopil k njej, ko je predstavljala rezultate
nedavne ankete.
f) Ko so prevzeli podjetje v tujini, so postavili na cesto več kot 80 ljudi.
When they took over a company abroad, they made more than 80 people
redundant.