Past and Present Tense

Past Simple and Past Continuous

Verbs are action words

Multiple Select

Tick all of the verbs below.

• to remember

• quickly

• lovely

• flight

• to fly

Past Tense

• In English, verbs will change form according to WHEN they are completed.

• The present is now.

• The past is everything that has happened before now.

How to form past tense

• Regular verbs: verb + ed

• Irregular verbs

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Multiple Choice

Cintia ... the book to the library last week

• return

• returned

• returns

• returning

Multiple Choice

We ... the class before we went home last Friday

• clean

• cleans

• cleaning

• cleaned

Multiple Choice

I ... your sister talking with someone in the park yesterday

• see

• saw

• seeing

• seen

Multiple Choice

I ... go to school yesterday due to corona virus

• don't

• doesn't

• didn't

• am not

Multiple Choice

Rani ... a wallet on the street when she was going home yesterday

• find

• finds

• found

• finding

Multiple Choice

Last holiday my family and I... to Bandung

• went

• go

• going

• gone

Give your own answers to the following questions using the past tense

Open Ended

Where did you go during the holidays last year?

Open Ended

What did you give your mother for Mother's Day?

Open Ended

What sports did you play when you were in primary school?

Past Continuous Tense

• The past continuous is used to talk about actions that were in progress in the past.

• We use it to talk about things that were in progress throughout a period of time.

• For example: 'I was sleeping all night.'

• We also use it to talk about something that was happening when another action interrupted it.

• For example: 'I was cooking when the smoke alarm went off.'

How to form past continuous tense

• verb + ing

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• 
  

• 
  

• 
  

Multiple Choice

All yesterday morning my parents______.

• are sleeping

• were sleeping

• slept

• sleeping

Multiple Choice

He was ______while his mother ______.

• washing / was cooking

• washed / cooked

• washes / is cooking

• wash / cook

Multiple Choice

I ______ work when he stopped.

• am starting

• was starting

• am started

• were started

Multiple Choice

He was _____ away when he saw me.

• walk

• walks

• walked

• walking

Multiple Choice

I ____ my work at six o'clock yesterday.

• finish

• finished

• finishes

• was finishing

Create sentences in the past continuous tense using the verbs given

Open Ended

watch

Open Ended

make

Open Ended

swim