The document provides an overview of past tenses in English, detailing the forms and uses of past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous. It includes examples, keywords, and various applications of each tense to convey past actions and events. The main focus is on helping learners understand how to correctly use these tenses in different contexts.

1. PAST TENSES
BY: Matías Ripoll, Tomás Braun, Valentina Re & Anouk Laferrere

2. PAST TENSES
PAST
SIMPLE
PAST
CONTINUOUS
PAST PERFECT
CONT.
PAST
PERFECT

3. PAST SIMPLE
HE
SHE
IT
+ VERB + ed / irregular
I
YOU
WE
THEY
KEY WORDS
YESTERDAY - LAST YEAR/MONTH/WEEK AGO-
A YEAR/MONTH/WEEK AGO - IN 1985- WHEN
- ONCE - THEN
USES
A. A past action that already finished
Last week, we prepared the presentation.
B. For retelling chronological events
Everyone sat down and the lesson began
C. A past habit or regular past event
Last year, I went to the club every week
QUESTION:
WH+did/n’t+subject+verb inf
NEGATIVE:
he/she/it/I/you/we/they+
didn’t + verb infinitive

4. PAST CONTINUOS
HE
SHE + WAS/WASN’T (negative)+VERB+ING
IT
I
YOU
. +WERE/WEREN’T(negative)+VERB+ING
WE
THEY
USES
A. An action in progress at a time in the
past
James Bond was driving through town.
I was working at 10 pm last night.
B. Simultaneous actions in the past
When Sammy was cooking, the phone,
suddenly, rang.
C. An action that was going on in the
background and interrupts the main
action at a specific moment
We were sleeping when we heard a thunder.
KEW WORDS
WHEN - WHILE - AT - AS - ALL DAY -
LAST WEEK/MONTH/YEAR...
WH+was-were/n’t+subject+verb ing

5. PAST PERFECT SIMPLE
HE
SHE
IT
. +HAD/HADN’T(negative)+PAST PARTICIPLE
I
YOU
WE
THEY
USES
A. To show that one action in the past
happened before another action in
the past
He had already had breakfast before he
went to school.
After she had put on all her clothes, her
mother told her in was Satuday.
B. Past action whose result is visible in
the past
There was traffic so, by the time he arrived
home, my husband had already prepared
dinner.
KEW WORDS
WHEN - AFTER - BEFORE - BY THE
TIME - AS SOON AS - UNTIL -
ALREADY - JUST - EVER - NEVER
WH+had/n’t+subject+past participle

6. PAST PERFECT CONTINUOS
HE
SHE
IT
. + HAD/HADN’T(negative)+ BEEN + VERB + ING
I
YOU
WE
THEY
KEY WORDS
AFTER - BEFORE - BY THE TIME - SINCE - FOR
USES
A. A past action that continued over a
period of time but stopped before
another action or specific time
I had been preparing my birthday party for
months.
B. A past action that continued over a
period of time until another action
interrupted it.
She had been watching TV for an hour when
her mother called her for dinner.
WH+had/n’t+subject+been+verb ing

7. THE END