Lesson 3: Review of Past tenses

PART I: The -ed ending

• Let’s start off by reviewing how to add the different Endings to a word.
• Then we can review the pronunciation of the regular past forms with he following handout:
  • How to pronounce the -ed ending

PART II: Simple Past

• We shall look at and discuss the following presentation on the Simple Past structure and use in class: 
  Alternatively, you can download the PDF file here.

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• EXERCISES:
  • Simple Past Exercises
  • Irregular past forms pronunciation
• SONGS:
  • Head over feet (Alanis Morissette) – Past Simple
  • I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylor Swift) – Simple past forms
  • Caught in the middle (A1) – Irregular past form
  • My Happy Ending (Avril Lavigne) – Past forms (A1-A2)

PART III: Past Continuous

• We shall look at and discuss the following presentation on the Past Continuous structure and uses in class: 
  Alternatively, you can download the PDF file here.

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• EXERCISES:
  • Past simple or continuous?
  • Time & Place prepositions
  • Dates & Figures
  • SONG: Lessons in Love (Level 42) – Past tenses