PAST TENSES

                       

   ¡Buenos días! En esta entrada haré un repaso de todos los tiempos que se utilizan para el pasado. Trataremos por tanto las siguientes formas verbales:

•     Past Simple
•     Past continuous
•     Present perfect
•     Past perfect

Os dejo un vídeo de selvaingles en el que nos enseñan a utilizar los tiempos verbales correspondientes (past simple, present perfect o past perfect), principalmente los irregulares, utilizando siempre un adverbio o expresión de tiempo en una oración. De esta manera se quedará más fijado que si nos limitamos a aprendernos de memoria la lista de verbos irregulares con las tres columnas (infinitive, past simple, past participle).

    PAST SIMPLE

·         Afirmative: They got married last year

·         Negative: I didn't have time to do my homework

·         Interrogative: What time did you wake up this morning

·         USES

•     Use the past simple for a completed action in the past
•     Sophie finished school in 2010 
•     A series of completed actions in the past
• When she worked as a journalist, he met interesting people and reavelled to faraway countries

  TIME EXPRESSIONS

   yesterday, last week, two days ago, in 2011, in the 1960s, in the 19th- centuury, when, then. 

  PAST CONTINUOUS

·         Afirmative: The driver lost control of his car because he was talking on his mobile.

·         Negative: I was not (wasn't dancing). 

·         Interrogative: Whatr were you doing at six o'clock las night?

I   I was dancing

    You were dancing

    He, She, It was dancing

    We, You, They were dancing

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·         USES

•     An incomplete action in progress at a specific time in the past
•     Last year she was working as a waiteress
•     An incomplete action interrupted by another action
•     Tom was cooking dinner when someone knocked at the door.
•     Two incomplte action taking place at the same time in the past
•     They were listening to music while they were sunbathing. 

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·         TIME EXPRESSIONS

   at two o'clock, last month, last year, when, while, as

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·         PRESENT PERFECT

·         Afirmative: She has never met (She's met) his ex wife

·         Negative:  I've been  to London, but I haven't been to Cambrige 

·         Interrogative: Have you ever lost you credit card?

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·         USES

•     An action that took placce at an unstarted time in the past, but is connected to the present.
•     I'm not going to the cinema with them tonight because I've alredy seen that film
•     Broadway musicals have always been famous.
•     An action that started in the past and continues to the present
•     The singer hasn't performed for over a month
•     She  has had a TV show since 1995.
•     How long has the band toured around the world?

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TIME EXPRESSIONS
always, so far, ever, never, just, yet, recently, alredy, in recent years, for, since
how long?

·         PAST PERFECT

·         Afirmative: When they turned on the TV, the match had already finished

·         Negative: We coludn't get a table in the restaurant because we hadn't booked

·         Interrogative: Had you eaten?

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·         USES

•     An action which happened before another action in the past.
•     I had never been to a live concert until I went to Shakira concert.
•     The actor had grown a beard before appearing in that film.
•      I felt nervous because hadn't flown before.

·         TIME EXPRESSIONS

    already, by the time, after, before, until, never, just
- Cuando el verbo es regular para formar el pasado y el participio basta con agregar -ed al final del verbo. 


- En el caso de los verbos irregulares, tendremos que aprenderlos de memoria, aquí hay una lista de los más comunes. 

Para realizar esta entrada me he basado en los siguientes libros:

- ENGLISH FILE, Intermediate Student's Book. OXFORD

- VALID, For Bachillerato 2. Burlington Books

- STRAIGHTFORWARD, Pre-intermediate Sutdent's Book. MACMILLAN

- INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH, Level B1: Grammar Bank