lesson 7

Past Tenses.

Objectives:

• to present and practise Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect in comparison with each other.
• to pracise narrating past events;
• to check students’ grammar skills.

PROCEDURE

1. Warm up

Read the quotation and try to predict the topic of the lesson.

•       I came, I saw, I conquered. (J. Caesar)

•       The report of my death was an exaggeration (M. Twain)

•       II have raised a monument more lasting than bronze. (Horace)

•       I have found! / I’ve got it! (Archimedes)

•       He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. (G. Eliot)

2. Main part

Presentation Past Simple

In the days of early times England was the land of tribes.

People came and went away.

Their traces still remain.

Kings and barons, chiefs and knights —

Their lives were full of fights.

Farmers grew and gave them foods.

Trades brought and sold them goods.

Vast landscapes and gardens green

Heavens in the lakes are seen.

Fresh and rainy countryside

Like a blooming paradise.

English home is a castle.

Rose bushes sweetly rustle.

They can tell us what life was

In the days of peace and wars.

We use the Past Simple to talk about :

1. Finished actions.
2. Past situations that are repeated or continuous, and past habits.

We can use the following time adverbials with the Past Simple: yesterday, last month, last Monday, two days ago, three years ago.

Presentation Past Continuous

We use the Past Continuous to talk about:

1.       Activities that continued for some time in the past

2.       Activities or situations that form a background for an event.

3.       Two actions in progress at the time.

Past Simple and Past Continuous

When the Past Continuous and the Past Continuous appear in one sentence, the Past Continuous describes the background (setting the scene), and the Past Simple reports an event.

Past Simple or Past Continuous

Complete the sentences with correct form of the verbs in brackets.

1. Something_____________________ (fall) out of the window while I        (stand) under it.
2. When Jane (have) her Saturday job at a flower shop she _

(send) me flowers.

3.       Dad_ (pay) me very well when I (work) in his shop in the holi­days.

4.       It __ (snow) while we __ (make) a snowman.

5. I_ (leave) the shop and then I_____________ (see) this picture, so I         (buy)

it.

6.       A light rain __ (fall) when I __ (arrive) in Abilene for the first time.

7. I_ (write) to you as soon as I_____ (know) I         (come) on the 21st.

Presentation Past Perfect

We use the Past Perfect to talk about an event which happened before some other past events.

Past Perfect or Past Simple

Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

Last month a police car in Arizona, USA took (take) fifteen-year- old Nancy Kellerman to the police station. Her crime? Earlier that

night, she (be) out with her friend’s in the park. She   (not realize)

that it was after 10 p.m. and the police     (arrest) her. Yes, in Arizona

any teenager under sixteen has to be at home by 10 p.m. and because

Nancy_ (forget) that she (be) at the police station that night.

She __ (take) her fingerprints and __ (ask) her some questions. Then her dad __ (take) her home.

3. Homework

Make up 20 sentences in Past Perfect, Past Continuous and Past Simple.

Викачати матеріали до урока можна тут:

Full Past Tenses.ptt

Past Continous.ptt

Past Perfect.ptt

Past Tenses.ptt

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