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Past Diagnostic

Past Tense Diagnostic Quiz: a tool to help you identify specific points that need review

• Quiz 1: beginning – intermediate
• Quiz 2: intermediate – advanced 

Past Complete

Past Complete: reporting past activities or events (Beg.– Int. ESL, Native Speakers–spelling)

• Past v. Past Progressive
• Past Adverbs
• Common Mistakes
• Past Word Order
• Past Suffixes
• Short Vowels
• Irregular Past Forms
• Practice 1 – multiple choice
• Practice 2 – correct / incorrect
• Practice 3 – edit sentence

I got a speeding ticket on June 16, 2008.

I have gotten several tickets in the past.

Past Progressive

Past Progressive: indicating temporary activities  (Beg.– Int. ESL)

• Past Progressive v. Past Nonprogressive
• Background Activity
• Adverbs
• Common Mistakes
• Word Order
• Practice– multiple choice

Alison lived in San Francisco after she finished school.
Alison took the train while she was living in San Francisco.

We saw two cars crash.
As we were walking along the sidewalk, we saw two cars crash.
 

Past Habits

Past Progressive: indicating temporary activities (Int.–Adv. ESL)

• Would v. Used to
• Would / Used to Differences
• Common Mistakes
• Word Order
• Practice– multiple choice

We would go to the beach after school.
We used to go to the beach after school. (earlier stage of life)

She used to have a surf board.  (state of possession)
She would have an amazing tan by the time summer ended.   (conditioned outcome)
 

Reporting Source

Reporting Source: telling source or emotional impact (Int.–Adv. ESL)

• Source v. Duration – past vs. present perfect
• Emotional Responses
• Common Mistakes
• Practice– multiple choice

Where did you get those jeans?
Where have you been (for the past few hours)?

Wow! He did a backflip!
He has done lots of backflips in his career.

Past Series

Past Series: reporting a past series of events (Int.–Adv. ESL, Native Speakers)

• Past Series of Events
• Activity v. Time Contrast  past v. past perfect
• Practice– multiple choice

I got in my car, headed for the highway, drove several miles.

I looked behind me a saw a police car. He had been following me for a mile.

Past Perfect

Past Perfect: contrasting earlier from later events (Int.–Adv. ESL, Native Speakers)

• Past v. Past Perfect
• Adverb Placement – after, before, when, by the time
• Common Mistakes
• Past Perfect Adverbs
• Past Perfect Progressive
• Practice– multiple choice

After I had fallen asleep, I started to dream.

Past Perf Edit

Past Perfect Edit: using the past tenses in context

• Essay Past Experience
• Practice– multiple choice (editing sent.)

My father, my mother, my younger sister and I got into my father's '58 Ford to go to Cordoba where my parents rented a house up in the hills.

Participles1

Past/ Participle Verb Forms: practice using irregular verb forms

awake, beat begin, bite, blow, bring, buy, choose, cost, dig, draw, drive, fall, feel, find, fly, get, go, hang, hear, hit, hold, hurt, know, lay,

Jaycee (spin) _____the ball on his finger last night.

Participles2

Past/ Participle Verb Forms: practice using irregular verb forms

let, lie, lose, loosen, meet, put, read, ring, run, see, send, shake, shut, sit, slide, spend, stand, stick, swear, swim, teach, tell, throw, upset wear,

Jamie (let) _____the ball drop in yesterday's final play.