Demo Class Presentation

Authored by:David Vásquez

English Teacher Candidate

Towards:Georgal Idiomas

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Past Tense&

Past PerfectApril 8, 2013

Required concepts:• Basic sentence structuring -- Subject + Verb +

Predicate• Basic verbs knowledge

What’s the use?• Making distinctions between past events• Identifying earlier premises or actions that led

to recent happenings

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Describing how things happened

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Past Tense:Subject + verb + complement

Past Perfect

When A [past tense verb], B [HAVE in past tense] [verb 2 in past participle]

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Past Tense:I ate a sandwich.

Past Perfect:When you arrived, I had eaten a sandwich.

How to invoke past perfect in conversation:

“How was A doing, when B happened?

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Thank you for your time!

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