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‫مفاهيم اللغة الإنجليزية (لغة أولى) الصف الثالث الثانوي‬

Past simple, past continuous, past and

past continuous

Uses of the past simple:
● actions which started and finished in the past, e.g.She

lived in New York for three months only. She didn’t
live in Paris.
My uncle returned from Algeria in 2010.
Did you visit the New Administrative Capital Museum a week ago?
● a sequence of actions or events, e.g.
She finished her degree, then moved back to Egypt.
● repeated actions and habits in the past, e.g.
Heba wrote lots of novels during her thirties.
Karim didn’t like going swimming when he was little.
Did you often paint pictures at primary school?

Past habits

Uses of used to/didn’t use to
● to describe situations and regular habits in the past: People

used to leave a lot of rubbish on the beach.There didn’t
use to be a sports centre in our town.
● to compare the past and the present:
My father used to stay up late when he was young, but now he goes to bed early.

Uses of would + infinitive
● to describe past habits and typical behaviour (not to describe past situations):

In the past, we would go to the seaside, but this summer we decided to go to the village instead.I
asked my brother to volunteer with me many times, but he wouldn’t do it.

Uses of the past continuous:
● to speak about an action that was in progress at a particular time in the past:I was doing my homework at 9 pm yesterday.
● an action that was already in progress when another action took place, e.g.

Amira was studying in Cairo when she met her husband. When/While I was walking to school, I saw a terrible
accident.
● two actions in progress in the past at the same time, e.g. While I was listening to the lecture, I was making notes.

Note: Use during, not while before a noun:

I met two of my old friends during the party.

Uses of the past perfect simple:

● for actions or events which happened at an earlier time than another event in the past
● We often use it with adverbs and time expressions such as after, before, once, when, until, already, etc.I‟d

finished all my homework, so I decided to play tennis.
When the journalist arrived to do the interview, the player had already left.Once
I‟d read the book, I understood what she had achieved.
We didn’t hear about the earthquake until we had read the newspaper.
I had no sooner remembered his phone number, than I decided to contact him.
Had Hatim arrived before the match started?
My father was angry because I hadn’t followed his advice.

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