Language focus

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Past simple

Past perfect

Relation between PS &PP

Practice

Content Past simple Past perfect Relation Practice

Past simplePast simple

Ex: I spent all my childhood in Scotland.

S+ V2/V-ed

Usage: Past simple tense talks about many

kinds of past events: short, quickly finished

actions and happenings, longer situations ,

and repeated events.

ScotlandPast FutureNow

Content Past simple Past perfect Relation Practice

Past PerfectPast Perfect

1. Jim arrived at the party at 6 pm. Then, his wife called him, so he left the party at 7pm.

2. Sue came to the party at 7.30 pm and she couldn’t meet Jim.

When Sue arrived at the party, Jim had already left.

S + HAD + PAST PARTICIPLE

Usage: to express an action which finished before a point of time or another action in the past.

Content Past simple Past perfect Relation Practice

Relation between Past Simple &Past Perfect

Relation between Past Simple &Past Perfect

Past simple is used for the action coming after

Past perfect is used for the action coming before .

RelationEx: After he graduated from high school he became a taxi-driver.

Content Past simple Past perfect Relation Practice

PracticePractice

Put the verbs in parentheses into the correct form.A: What kind of language ______Helen Keller

(1)________before Braille? (learn)B: It (2)_____ a kind of sign language. Do you remember

the way Ann Sullivan(3)__________ the alphabet in Helen’s hand to teach her the word “water”? (be, tap out)

A: Oh, yeah. And by nightfall Helen (4) ___________ 30 words. (learn)

B: Exactly. She(5) ______ so gifted that she (6)_______ learn 625 words within six months. (be, can)

A: So…when ______she (7)______ Braille? (learn)B: When she (8)_______ ten…as I remember. (be)

learned was

tapped out

had learned

could

was

was

did learn

had

Content Past simple Past perfect Relation Practice