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    The document describes different tenses used to talk about the past in English. It provides examples of simple past tense, which describes completed actions in the past, past continuous tense which describes ongoing or interrupted actions in the past, and actions happening at the same time in the past. It also lists common time expressions used with different past tenses and provides an exercise for the reader to practice converting verbs into simple past or past continuous tenses in different sentence structures.

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     Events in the past that are now finished.

     Actions in progress (in the past)


    Two years ago, I travelled to Italy. I was watching TV at seven o’clock.
     Situation in the past  Interrupted actions in progress (in the past)
    I lived in India for six years. (I don’t live there While he was listening to music, the phone rang.
    anymore.)  Actions in progress at the same time (in the
     A series of actions in the past past)
    She got up, got dressed and had breakfast. Jane was doing her homework while her brother
    was reading books.

     Repetition and irritation with “Always”


    He was always coming late to class.

     - When  - While
     - Ago  - As
     - Last week/ year/ night  - At that time
     - Yesterday  - At 3.00 p.m yesterday
     - In 2006

    Put the verbs into the Simple past or past continuous.

    1. He ………………………………….. (talk) with Mary, when Mrs. Smith came in.

    2. They ………………………………… (study) two hours last night.

    3. Jane …………………………………. (sleep) when the telephone rang.

    4. As I …………………………………. (walk) to the lab, I met my friend.

    5. We ………………………………….. (watch) TV last night.


    Complete the sentences with the words in parentheses using the SIMPLE PAST or
    the PAST PROGRESSIVE:
    1. Sally …………………………… (eat) dinner last night when someone …………………..
    (knock) on the door.
    2. I began to study at seven last night. Fred …………………………… (come) at seven-thirty.
    I ……………………………… (study) when Fred ……………………….. (come).
    3. I ………………………………. (study) last night, While Fred ……………………………
    (drop by) to visit me.
    4. My roommate’s parents …………………………………. (call) him last night while we
    …………………………………….. (watch) TV.
    5. My mother called me around five. My husband came home a little after five. When he
    ……………………………….. (come) home, I ………………………………….. (talk) to
    my mother on the phone.

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