ENGLISH CLASS

UNIVERSITY OF CEBU LAPU-LAPU AND MANDAUE

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Today's Agenda

Tenses of Verb:
Past and Past Perfect
Tense

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 Objectives
At the end of the lesson, the learners will be able to:

a. understand and determine the differences between past

tense and past perfect tense.
b. revise sentences following the appropriate usage of
tenses of verbs in a given learning exercise.
c. produce a story ending with proper usage of past and past
perfect tenses in the paragraph.

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 What do you
know about verb
tenses?

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Main verb tenses are:

Past Tense
Present Tense
Future Tense

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 Watch
this Video

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Past Tense - Verbs that end with “d” and

“ed” letters
Past perfect tense - past tense of a verb
with a past participle “had”

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 What is the
difference
between past
tense and past
perfect tense?

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PAST TENSE- is used to

talk about actions that
happened at a specific
time in the past.

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 These can be in terms of:

events in the situation in the a series of

past that are past actions in the
now finished past

PAST TENSE - is form by adding /-d/ or /-ed/ to the base form of the verb.

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Regular verbs - add -ed to the root form of the verb (or just -d if the root
form already ends in an e)

EXAMPLES

play→ played love → loved

push → pushed listen → listened

type → typed dump → dumped

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Irregular verbs – the simple past tense of some irregular verbs
looks exactly like the root form.

EXAMPLES

put → put set→ set

cut → cut cost → cost
hit → hit

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Other irregular verbs, including the verb to be, the simple past
forms are more erratic.

EXAMPLES

see → saw
build → built
go → went
do → did
rise → rose
am/is/are → was/were

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Verbs in the simple past tense (except

for the verb to be) don’t need to agree
in number with their subjects.
Example:
Wolfgang polished his medal. The
other winners polished their medals
too.

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 PAST PERFECT TENSE - is
used when you are talking
about a completed action
before something in the
past.

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 PAST PERFECT TENSE is form by using the word “had”+ past
participle of the verb. It expresses activities that existed or
occurred before another activity in the past.

EXAMPLES

We had finished dinner when James

called.

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 Signal Words

Simple past: first, then

Past perfect simple: already,
up to then, before that day

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 Activity

Instruction: Choose a partner and fill the blanks with the

correct past and past perfect tense of the story you’ve
watched earlier. Answer the activity sheet for five minutes.

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 Evaluation
Direction: Use correct forms of past and past perfect tense.
_______1. Abegail said she (wash) the car before she (sell) it.
_______2. The newspaperman (put) the newspaper down before he (ring) the
doorbell.
_______3. They (live) in the village for ten years when they (decide) to move.
_______4. We (spend) two weeks in the spacecraft when we (land) on the moon.
_______5. She (put) out the cat before she (start) to clean the flat.

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Assignment

Group yourselves to whomever you want to work with.

Your assignment task is to complete the mysterious
story with your own ending in mind. You have to make
sure you apply appropriate past and past perfect
tense and underline it in your sentences. You will have
to underline it in your sentences. You will have to
present and have one representative for each group
to read aloud your group work next meeting.

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joining today's class.

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