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This unit, unit 6, is merely about the past tenses. Like the present tenses, the past tenses can be split into 3 different forms, affirmative, negative, and question. The Past tenses are divided into 4 types, Past simple, Past continuous, Past perfect, and Past perfect continuous. Past simple is adding -ed or -d to the base form of a verb and can be regular or irregular verbs. It is used for a past action with a given, when the time is asked about, when the action happened at a certain time but it's not mentioned when, and when the question and answer is in the present perfect and the time is certain. Card games, role-play, and discussions of past holidays are ways to teach the Past simple tense. Past continuous is adding a subject to was/were plus a verb with -ing. It is used when past actions are interrupted, gradual development that happened in the past, an action that began before that time and continued after it, and used in descriptions. Telling stories, using diaries, and detective games can all be used to teach past continuous tense. Past perfect is adding had to a subject plus a past participle. It is used for actions which occur before other actions in the past, and for completely finished actions. Writing in conjunction with other past tenses, thinking of situations, and backwards story retelling are ways that can be used in class for teaching past perfect tense. Past perfect continuous is adding had to a subject, then been and verb plus -ing. It is used to talk about longer actions in the past that had been continuous up to the past moment it was brought up.
