Past Tense & Past

Continuous Tense
Unit 4
 Past Tense
 Used in describing an action or event which
occurred at specific time in the past.
 E.g. I bought my first laptop a few months ago.
 Clues → Time expressions (e.g. yesterday, last
week, a long time ago, back in my younger days,
2000, just now, few minutes ago)
* Make few sentences using the 3 time
espressions.
Irregular Verbs
 make – made, draw – drew , go – went, write –
wrote.
 Some regular verbs remain the same form of
simple past tense. (E.g. set, let, hit, put, cut)
 ‘to be’ Verb

Pronoun I he/she/it they/we/you

Present T. am is are
Past T. was was were
Affirmative Shafiq saved a Rafeah was Syafiq and
copy of his work on disappointed that Syafiqah were
his flash drive. her work on the happy with the
computer got new mobile
deleted. phones which
their father
bought.

Negative Shafiq did not save Rafeah was not Syafiq and
a copy of his work disappointed that Syafiqah were not
on his flash drive. her work on the happy with the
computer got new mobile
deleted. phones which
their father
bought.

Interrogative Did Shafiq save his Was Rafeah Were Syafiq and
work on his flash disappointed that Syafiqah happy
drive? her work on the with the new
computer got mobile phones?
deleted?
 Do page 114
 Exercise A – Num. 1 only
 Exercise B

Exercise C – 1-3
 Exercise D
 Past Continuous Tense
 Past ‘be’ Verb + verb+ing = was/were
working
 3 rules to use past continuous tense

1. The action was carried out in the past.

E.g. From 8 a.m to 12 noon yesterday,
Miss Shima was using the classroom to
teach her students.
(duration of time)
2. Shows that two actions were going on at the same
time in the past.
E.g. While Amirul was talking on my phone, Afif was
watching football on the television. (continuous
actions at the same time)
3. Shows that an interruption happen while the longer
action was going on. Longer action uses past
continuous tense while the interruption uses simple
past tense.
E.g. While I was typing some important document,
there was a power outage.
As I was walking down the road, I found an MP3
player.
**Time Expression to use PCT – as, when, while, still
 Non-action verbs should not take past
continuous tense.
 E.g. hear, forget, understand, own, want,
appear, realise, believe, prefer, seem,
belong, etc.
 Do exercises B,C and A (consolidation).
(pg.121)