The document provides information on using the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It includes tables showing the affirmative, negative and interrogative forms of both tenses. It also discusses spelling rules for forming the past simple (-ed) and past continuous (-ing) verb forms. Finally, it outlines the different uses of the past simple and past continuous tenses and gives examples of how to use time expressions like "when", "while", and specific times with each tense.

1. PAST TENSE
(Past Simple and Continuous)

2. Affirmative
I / You / He /
She / It / We /
They
football.
in the sea.
playED
PAST SIMPLE PAST CONTINUOUS
Negative
I / You / He / She/
It / We / They
football.
in the sea.
didn’t play
didn’t swim
Questions
I / you / he / she/
it / we / they
?
Urst ?
play
Did
swim
Short answers
Yes,
I / you / he / she/
it / we / they
D .
No,
I / you / he / she/
it / we / they
don’t .
doesn’t
.
didn’t
Affirmative
I / He / She / It Working .
We / You / they working.
was working
were working
Negative
I / He / She / it speakin.
We / You / They speakin.
wasn’t
weren’t
working
working
Questions
I / he / she / it Playin ?
we / you / they Playi ng?
working
working
swam
Was
Were
did
Short answers
Yes,
I / he / she / it Am .
we / you / they Are .
No,
I / he / she / it ’m not .
we / you / they aren’t .
was
were
wasn’t
weren’t

3. Affirmative
+ed
memorise!!!
PAST SIMPLE PAST CONTINUOUS
Negative
didn’t
Short answers
do
does
don’t
did.
didn’t
Affirmative
Working .
working.
was +ing
were +ing
Questions
Did
infinitive
subject Infinitive ?
Yes, subject
Regular verbs
Regular verbs
Irregular verbs
Irregular verbs
No,
subject
Negative
Working .
Questions
Working .
working.
Short answers
do
does
don’t
I / He / She / It
We / You / they
We / You / they
we / you / they
wasn’t
I / He / She / ItWas
weren’t
were
wasn’t/weren’t
was / weresubject
subject
Yes,
No,
+ing
+ing
+ing
+ing
I / He / She / It

4. Spelling rules for –ed (past simple)
• Verbs ending in e + d
(love  loved)
• Verbs ending in consonant + y  IED
(studystudied, carrycarried,
BUT playplayed)
• Vending in CONSONANT-VOWEL-
CONSONANT, double the last consonant and
add –ed
(clap—clapped)

5. Spelling rules for –ing (past continuous)
• Verbs ending in e, drop the e, except to be and to see
(comecoming, givegiving,
BUT be being, see seeing)
• Verbs ending in y, keep the y
(studystudying, playplaying)
• Verbs ending in –ie, change the ie to y
(die—dying, lie—lying)
• Verbs ending in CONSONANT-VOWEL-CONSONANT,
double the last consonant
(planplanning, preferpreferring,
traveltravelling)

6. USES
PAST SIMPLE PAST CONTINUOUS
When they come together, the long action is past continuous, and the actions that
interrumps the long one, is past simple.
(I was having a shower when the telephone rang)
To describe a completed action in the past
(She went to the dentist’s)
To describe an incomplete action in
progress at a specific time in the past
(I was reading the report at 9pm yesterday)

7. WHEN AND WHILE
• WHEN =
• WHILE =
quan
mentre
Seguit de PAST SIMPLE
Seguit de PAST CONTINUOUS
I was phoning my friend WHEN she arrived
She arrived WHILE I was phoning my friend.
WHEN she arrived, I was phoning my friend
WHILE I was phoning my friend, she arrived

8. TIME EXPRESSIONS
PAST SIMPLE PAST CONTINUOUS
ago
yesterday
the day before yesterday,
last week/night/month year....
While
At 7 o’clock, at half past three...
During