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Past Time: Isabel Allende: Precious Past Moments
Past Time: Isabel Allende: Precious Past Moments
Past Time: Isabel Allende: Precious Past Moments
Past Time
Isabel Allende:
Precious Past
Moments
Focus on Grammar 5
Part I, Unit 2
By Ruth Luman, Gabriele Steiner, and BJ Wells
Copyright 2006. Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
Simple Past
Use the simple past to describe actions,
events, or states at a specific past time.
Isabel Allende grew up in
South America.
In the 1950s, she attended a
private school in Bolivia.
now
past
future
Past Progressive
Use the past progressive to express an action that
was in progress (not finished) in the past.
Allende was working for the United Nations. . .
. . . when she married her first husband in 1962.
1962
past
now
future
Present Perfect
Use present perfect to express actions, events,
or states completed at an indefinite time in the
past.
Isabel Allende has lived in Peru, Chile,
and Venezuela.
She has done numerous lecture tours
in America and Europe.
now
past
future
now
future
Practice 1
past
Example:
She
had
(have)
herher
daughter in 1963.
1963
She
1.
(work)
has worked
for several
for
several
magazines
magazines.
future
She
4.
(live)
hasinlived
the U.S.
in the
forU.S.
forover
over15
15years
years.
She
married
second
3. (marry)
herher
second
husband
in 1988.
husband
in 1988
She
moved
Venezuela
2. (move)
to to
Venezuela
with
herher
family
in 1975.
with
family
in 1975
future
Past Perfect 1
Use the past perfect to express events that
happened before a past event.
Allende had published many magazine articles . . .
. . . before she wrote her famous novel House of Spirits.
now
past
future
before
past event
past
event
Past Perfect 2
The past perfect is often used with by or by the time.
The by clause may precede or follow the main clause.
By the time Isabel Allende returned to Chile in 1991 . . .
. . . fifteen years had gone by.
fifteen years
past
now
future
1976
1991
Practice 2
She
worked for
(work)had
for the
United
Nations
United
Nations
Example: the
before
(have)she
her had her
son
Nicolas
son
Nicolas.
past
She
been a
1.
(be)had
a contributor
to Mampato to
contributor
Magazine
Mampato
magazine(direct)
before
the
magazine
she directed
the
magazine.
now
future
Isabel
published
2. Isabelhad
(publish)
severalnovels
novels before she
several
started a trilogy for
young
(start)
a
trilogy for
adults.
young adults
did not
happen
future
Practice 3
Example:
Allende
was going She
to live
Allende planned
hadintoChile,
flee
to live
Chile.
but
shein had
to flee the
thecountry.
country.
She
was going
a letter,
She planned
to to write
The letter
turned
writethe
a letter.
a novel.
but
letter turnedinto
into
a novel.
They planned
to toThey
in
They
were going
staydivorced
together,
staythey
together.
but
divorced in1987.
1987.
References
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Photo Credits:
Isabel Allende Loria Barra