Eating and meeting

UNIT 2
GRAMMAR
 PAST SIMPLE
• is used to describe actions or events in the
past

• Actions or events that happen one after

another

Maria went to Paris, then she visited her sister

and after they went to a café
PAST CONTINUOUS

• is used to describe an activity which started

before and continued until an event in the
past

My mother was cooking when I got home

She was studying when the phone rang

 PAST SIMPLE PAST CONTINUOUS

An action or an event that happened and finished in the Actions and events that happened in the past and
past continued until another actions in the past

Actions and events that happened one after another Actions and events that were in progress in the past

They took up the course last Monday They were playing football until it started raining

She met her friends and then she went to cram for her My dad was clearing up the living room the whole
exams morning
 USED TO BE USED TO GET USED TO

Be accustomed to (estar Become accustomed to

Habits or routines in the past
acostumbrado) (acostumbrarse)

Followed by infinitive Followed by -ing Followed by -ing

It is used just in the past It could be used in any tense It could be used in any tense

Sarah used to do athletics when Sarah was used to sleeping 8 Sarah is getting used to speaking
she was young hours a day English everyday
 WOULD
• We can use would to talk about repeated past
actions.

• Often either would or used to is possible.

Every Saturday I would go on a long ride bike

Every Saturday I used to go on a long ride bike

 PAST PERFECT SIMPLE

• something which happened before something

described in the past simple: When we arrived at the
cinema, the film had already started

• with expressions such as when, as soon as, after,

before

• with the adverbs already, just and never

PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS

• the same as the Past Perfect simple but:

• focused on the length of time:

Sarah needed holidays because she had been working

the whole year

• to say how long something happened up to a point

in the past:

She had been living there for two months

 PAST PERFECT SIMPLE PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS

Actions and events that happened before other Actions and events that were in progress in the past and
actions in the past (THE PAST OF THE PAST) continued until another action in the past

FOCUSED ON THE ACTION FOCUSED ON THE LENGHT OF TIME

With the expressions: before, after, as soon as, when… With the expressions: before, after, as soon as, when…

With the adverbs: just, already, yet… With the adverbs: just, already, yet…