Past
Purpose
To build up sentences using past tenses to tell a story.
Content
Remember the structure of present simple and continuous?
-read -cook -play
What is the structure for each?
Look up on the internet, in a dictionary or in a list of verbs the past tense of the verbs from the first
question and the auxiliary ‘be’.
Turn your sentences from the first question into past tenses (simple and continuous).
Look at the following images and tell a little story in 6 sentences (3 in past simple and 3 in past
continuous).
tenses
My father cooks a omelet every morning
My father is cooking a omelet
read, cooked, played
My father cooked a omelet every morning
My father was cooking a omelet
subject
Verb in
present
complement
subject
verb be and verb
with ing
complement
time complement
was, were