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This unit was about past tenses and their usages. We use past tenses, when we want to talk about actions and events in the past. The are few types of past tenses, the simplest one is called past simple, then we have past continues, past perfect, past perfect continuous. First I'd like to talk about past simple. It's form is simple. It contains subject + verb in past tense. We should be aware of using verbs known as irregular that have different forms in past. Students don't usually like this part because the only way to start using irregular verb is to remember them and their forms. Therefore they may be struggling with that for sometime. We use past tense when we talk about completed action in the past. At a definite time. Past continuous cons this subject+ was/were+ verb+ ing. We basically use it for actions in past. Another tense that I want to mention is past perfect. We just passed perfect quite a lot when telling a story in past. E.g.: When I came home, she'd already left. Form: subject + had+ past participle. Past perfect continuous isn't that frequently used but we use it when we talk about actions in the past that have been going up to some other moment in the past. Form: subject+ had+ been+ verb+ ing E.g. She had been vacuuming before he came. Above we can see to actions and the past perfect continuous tells us which action was first. Past perfect continuous consists of two auxiliary verbs which sometimes can cause some struggles to the students.
