The past tense 🔙 is used for actions🏊♂️ in a time ⏰ that has already happened.
In this blog, we will learn about 2 types of past tense.
Past Simple Tense
Past Continuous Tense
Past Simple Tense
We can use the past simple tense to talk🗣 about things that happened at a certain 📍 point in the🔙 past.
To form the past simple tense, we need past tense verbs. Past tense verbs include words like:
ate 🍽
played ⛹🏼♂️
ran 🏃🏼♀️
jumped🤾🏼♂️
cooked 🥦 🥬 🥒
looked 👀
Let's practise
1. The girl👀 watched 📺 TV yesterday.
2. Yesterday, I 🍽 ate🍳🥞 breakfast.
Past Continuous
We can use the past continuous tense to talk about something that was happening🔄 in the past or to say that someone was doing 🚴something in the past.
To form the past continuous tense, we need the words was or were and the verb ending in -ing.
Let's practise
1. Sue was swimming🏊♀️ in the pool yesterday.
2. Jane was eating🍦 ice cream in the park 🏞🌳🐇 last week.
Ways to practise the past tense at home:
1. Sticky Note Sort🗒🔀
Use sticky 🗒 notes and write some common past simple tense and past continuous tense verbs on them. Use some 📜paper to draw 2 columns and label them 'past simple' and 'past continuous'. Once you have done this, you can practise sorting 🔀your verbs into the correct✔️ columns.
2. Build A Sentence🚧 🏗
Cut a piece of paper📜 into 10 pieces. On each piece, write a past tense verb. Put each paper into a hat. Without looking🙈, choose a piece of paper and read 📚the word out loud. The first person to make a sentence using the word gets a🎖 point. The person with the most points wins🥇.
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