
The Basic Past
What is the difference in meaning between "I did my homework when he arrived home" and "I was doing my homework when he arrived home"? Take this basic past course to find out.
Course Facts
- Level Pre-Intermediate
- 8 hours of activities*
- 151 minutes of video content
- 63 downloadable resources
- 20 self-study activities
* When all activities are completed thoroughly with 10 minutes allocated to each self-study activity.
Course Objectives
- To understand the situations when the past simple and past continuous tenses are required
- To know how to form the past simple for regular and irregular verbs
- To know how to form the present participle for any verb
- To use the past simple and past continuous in the affirmative, negative, question and short response forms
- To use the verb to be in the affirmative, negative, question and short response forms in the past simple
- To identify keywords that are used in the past simple and past continuous tenses and use them correctly
- To know there are three ways to pronounce the past simple ending and correctly pronounce all words ending in ED according to the pronunciation rules
- To know there are three ways to pronounce the ING ending and correctly pronounce any word ending in ING according to the pronunciation rules
- To use word stress and sentence stress to correctly pronounce past continuous phrases
- To decide whether to use the past simple or past continuous tense according to the content of a sentence
Course Features

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Translator
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Downloads
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Course Content




Course Includes
- 10 Lessons
- 64 Topics
- 3 Quizzes
- Course Certificate
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