Unit 2: Personal Experience
Teacher: To Phuong Tu
What tenses do you use
to tell story?
Present tenses
Why?
To make it more realistic
Unit 2: LANGUAGE FOCUS
REVIEW OF TENSES
Present simple indicating past time
The past simple, past progressive and past perfect
yesterday
At five o’clock yesterday, they (play) ______ football
The action was happening at a point of time
were playing
S+ were/was + Ving
Mary (wake) _______ when the alarm clock (go) ______ off.
woke
went
Two short actions, one right after another
She (meet) ______________ her teacher when she (walk) ______________ to school.
met
was walking
One short action (simple past) interrupted one continuing action (past progressive)
He (do) _________________ his homework while they (read)__________________ a book
was doing
were reading
Two long actions were happening at the same time in the past
When she (get) ______________ to her class, the teacher (start) _______________ the lesson.
got
had started
One action happened after a completed action in the past
Notes:
1. To describe what happened and ended in the past
Past simple (V2-ed)
2. One action was happening at a point of time in the past
Past progressive (were/was+Ving)
3. One action happened right after another
S+ V2-ed + when + S + V2-ed
as soon as
4. One short action interrupted one continuing action
S+ Were/was + Ving + when+S+ V2-ed
while
as
5. Two long actions were happening at the same time in the past
S+ Were/was + Ving + while /as +S +
were/was + Ving



6. One action happened after a completed action in the past
S+ had+V3-ed + before +S + V2-ed
when
by the time
S+ V2-ed + after + S + had + V3-ed

Exercise 2(p.30): Complete the sentences by putting the verbs into the past simple or past progressive
1. broke, was playing
2. wrote, was
3. was working, broke
4. started, were walking
5. told, were having
6. didn’t listen, was thinking
7. phoned, didn’t answer, were… doing
8. wasn’t wearing, didn’t notice, was driving
Exercise 2(p.30): Complete the sentences by putting the verbs into the past simple or past progressive
1. had eaten , arrived
2. found , had taken
3. got , had closed
4. got , had left
5. got, had arrived
6. paid, had phoned
7. went, said, hadn’t arrived
8. had looked, asked , cost
Have a nice day!