This document provides an overview of different past verb tenses in English including the past simple, past continuous, and past perfect tenses. It gives examples of how to use each tense, such as using the past simple to describe finished actions in the past like "Peter threw a stone," using the past continuous to describe background actions happening at a specific time like "I was watching the news," and using the past perfect to talk about actions that happened before another point in the past, like "they had already opened all the presents" when the speaker arrived at a party.
2. • Past Simple
• Past Continuous
• Past Perfect
• Time conjunctions.
3. Finished actions in the past.
Peter threw a stone and broke a
car window last night.
I spent all my childhood in
Scotland.
4. What were you doing on
Sept 11th 2001?
I was watching the news
when a plane crashed
against the Twin Towers .
The phone rang while I was
having a bubble bath.
As background actions (+
as, when, while)
5. Past in the past.
When I arrived at the party,
they had already opened all the
presents.
6. Past in the past.
When I arrived at the party,
they had already opened all the
presents.
