This document is a presentation authored by David Vásquez for an English teaching class at Georgal Idiomas about teaching past tense and past perfect verb tenses. It outlines key concepts like basic sentence structure and verb knowledge. It explains that past tense and past perfect are used to distinguish between past events and identify earlier actions that led to recent events. Examples are provided of simple past tense sentences and ones using past perfect to talk about events that happened before another action in the past.

1. Demo Class Presentation
Authored by:
David Vásquez
English Teacher Candidate
Towards:
Georgal Idiomas
April 8, 2013

2. Past Tense
&
Past Perfect
April 8, 2013

3. Required concepts:
•
Basic sentence structuring -- Subject + Verb +
Predicate
•
Basic verbs knowledge
What’s the use?
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Making distinctions between past events
•
Identifying earlier premises or actions that led
to recent happenings
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4. Describing
how things
happened
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5. Past Tense:
Subject + verb + complement
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6. Past Perfect
When A [past tense verb], B
[HAVE in past tense] [verb 2
in past participle]
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7. Past Tense:
I ate a sandwich.
Past Perfect:
When you arrived, I had eaten
a sandwich.
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8. How to invoke past perfect
in conversation:
“How was A doing, when B
happened?
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9. Thank you for
your time!
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10. Thank you for
your time!
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