Past Perfect Continuous

Past Perfect

Past Continuous

Past Simple

Past Perfect Continuous

Past Perfect

Past Continuous

1. Past Continuous is used to express activity in progress in the past.

e.g. There was an awful noise in your house last night. What were you doing?

2. It is used to describe a situation or activity during a period in the past.

e.g. I was reading a book during the flight.

3. It is often used to either with Past Simple to say that something happened in the middle of something else.

e.g. When I saw Jim in the park he was sitting on the grass and reading a book.

4. It is used to express an activity in progress at a particular time in the past.

e. g. At 7.00 this morning I was having breakfast.

Note: If we say that one thing happened after another we use Past Simple for both actions.

Compare: When Tom arrived we were watcing TV.

When Tom arrived we watched TV (= Tom arrived and then we watched TV).

1. Past Perfect is used to say that one action in the past or a particular time in the past.

e. g. When we arrived home Anna had gone to bed.

He had finished his work by 6 o’clock yesterday.

We use Past Perfect Continuous to say how long something had been happening before something else happened

e.g. He had been smoking for 30 years when he finally gave up.

Compare:

When I arrived they had been watching TV for 2 hours. (= уже отсмотрели)

When I arrived they had already watched TV. (= уже посмотрели)

When I arrived they were watching TV. (= в это время смотрели)

When I arrived they watched TV. (= затем помотрели)

Table 1. Grammatical Forms of Past Tenses

I	finished
you	arrived
he, she, it	left	yesterday
they we	went came
I	finish
you	didn’t arrive
he, she, it	leave	three weeks ago
we	go
they	come

I
he	was
she	wasn’t	working
it		coming
we	were	going
you	weren’t
they

I he she it	had	finished arrived
we you they	hadn’t	left gone come

I he she it	had	been	finishing arriving leaving
we you they	hadn't		going coming

Ex. 18. Complete the expressions with 3 forms of irregular verbs given below, translate and study them. Use Appendices for help.

fly	speak
go	spend
know	wear
make	write
pay	get

1. make made made changes, decision, a reservation

2. _______ _______ _______ on holiday, for a stroll, on a training course, for a drive

3. _______ _______ _______ first class, club class, economy class

4. _______ _______ _______ time, money, a holiday

5. _______ _______ _______ the bill, in cash, in advance

6. _______ _______ _______ the answer, a place, someone well

7. _______ _______ _______ English fluently, quietly, poor Italian

8. _______ _______ _______ a uniform, clothes, a dinner jacket

9. _______ _______ _______ a fax, a message, a letter

10. ______ _______ _______ to know, lost, to the place of destination, away

Ex. 19. Put the verbs in these short dialogues in the correct form of Past Simple. Listen and check..

1) A: Where _____ (you / spend) your last holiday?

B: _____ (go) to the Canaries.

A: _____ (you / have) a good time?

B: _____ (not / like) it very much. It is hardly what I could call a good time. In fact we _____ (leave) a few days early.

A: _____ (you) not / like about it?

B: _____ (think) it was much too modern and touristy.

2) A: I’m sorry. Mr. Johnson, we could hardly book in advance for you.

When ______ (you / make) the booking?

B: I ______ (not / write) to you myself – my secretary ______ (fax) you last week.

And she ______ (send) a letter of confirmation too. She ______ (book) it in the name of the company.

A: Ah, yes, here it is. I do apologize.

3) A: What ______ (your holiday /be) like?

B: It ______ (be) a good break, but the weather ______ (not/be) very good. Hardly a day went without rain.

A: ______ (enjoy) the service?

B: The hotel ______ (look) smart. The tours ______ (be) really interesting. You ______

(can) enjoy a life of luxury, good food and drink.

Ex. 20. Complete the sentences using the correct forms of the verbs in Past Simple and Past Continuous. Listen and check.

1. When I ______ (live) in Paris, I ______ (spend) 3 hours a day traveling to and from work.

2. The weather ______ (be) so good last summer that we ______ (go) to the beach entirely every weekends.

3. They ______ (get) lost while they ______ (look) round the shops.

4. When I ______ (leave) England it ______ (rain).

5. The Russian ______ (like) Blackpoll when they ______ (have) rest there last season.

6. I ______ (meet) a lot of interesting people when I ______ (work) for Tour operator in Norway.

7. The holiday makers ______ (take) photographs and ______ (buy) souvenirs while ______ (go) round the city.

Ex. 21. Complete the sentences using Past Simple and Past Perfect.

1. Apparently he ______ (book) a tour before we ______ (phone) the Travel Agent.

2. I ______ (want) to visit the Gallery before I ______ (leave) Florence.

3. They ______ (help) to find capital and ______ (finance) the building the hotel.

4. He hardly ______ (fly) to Rome; all the flights ______ (be) booked up.

5. We ______ (walk) into the station only to find that the train ______ (leave).

6. By the time I ______ (go) to Moscow they ______ (renovate) St. Basil's Cathedral.

7. Sorry we ______ (be) late, we ______ (take) the wrong direction.

8. I ______ (be) very nervous as I waited in the departure lounge, because I never ______ (fly) before.

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