INTRODUCTION

This interactive module in English is intended for Grade 7 learners.

The purpose of crafting this module is to develop the needed

competencies in learning required by the K-12 Basic Education

Curriculum and apply the skills in manipulating the language be it in

speaking or writing.

This module gives the opportunity to the learners to learn the

simple past and past perfect tenses of verb to enhance ability to

distinguish the differences between the two tenses

Activities are to motivate the learners to enjoy the process of

learning and to embrace the use of language in communicating.

 Learning Module in Grade 7 English

ENG7G-III-h-3

Use the past and past perfect tenses correctly in varied

contexts.

ANGELITA P. LATINA
Teacher II
Bagbag National High School
 GRADE 7 ENGLISH

Objectives:

A. Give the past tense and past participle of verbs

B. Apply the simple past and past perfect tenses of

verbs in sentences accurately.

Content Standard:

The learner demonstrates understanding of simple

past and past perfect tenses.

Performance Standard:

The learner transfers learning by enriching written

communication using past/past perfect tense.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
 What you already know?

I. SIMPLE PAST TENSE OF VERB

(Talking about Actions and Events in the Past)

Review 1: Read the sentences:

1. They visited their friend in the hospital yesterday?
2. During his last visit, Ricky Reyes promised to give help to
the kids with leg disability.
3. He also gave his donation of food and money to the
needy patients.
4. Two years ago, generous benefactors put up a
recreational center for the young needy patients.
5. The wealthy businessman set up the foundation last year
to help poor and needy patients.
Analysis:
1. Compare the verbs of sentences 1 & 2 from sentences
3,4,5. Observed their forms.

2. Classify them as regular and irregular

Review 2:
Try to recall the past form of the verbs in the table.
Regular Verbs
Base Form Past Form
1. call
2. agree
3. serve
4. visit
5. recite

Irregular Verbs
Base Form Past Form
1. know
2. find
3. be
4. sit
5. speak
 Let’s get ready to learn

 Simple past tense of verb – used to express an action that

happened and ended in the past.

 Past tense of regular verbs – add –d or –ed to the base

form of verb such as pulled, jumped, listened, graduated

 Irregular verbs – formed the past tense by changing the

spelling but some retain their spelling. Examples are began,
drank, sang, swam.

 Adverbial phrases that signal the use of simple past tense

- A year ago - last Saturday

- Last week - last month
- Yesterday - two years ago
- In 2000 - in 2019
- Three days ago - an hour ago

Activity 1: Below are pairs of sentences. The first sentence

uses the present tense of the verb. Use the past tense of
the same verb to complete the second sentence.
Example: Lina usually comes to school early.
Yesterday, she came to class late.
 1. They watch the sunset.
Yesterday afternoon, they ________ the sunset too.

2. It usually rains hard in the afternoon.

It _______hard yesterday.

3. The youth club helps clean the streets.

Last week, many club members __________collect the
garbage.

4. The monitor checks the attendance everyday.

I _______ the attendance the other day.

5. Flor buys clothes in the market.

Last Saturday, she ________ a dress in the shopping
center.

Activity 2: Complete the story with appropriate past tense

of verb. Underline your answer

Teodora Alonzo came from a well-to-do and educated

family. She 1. (grow, grew, grown) up in a pleasant orderly
home. When she was a little older. The family 2. ( moves,
moved, move) to Calamba, Laguna. Her mother 3. (teaches,
teach, taught) her the alphabet and reading. She 4. ( enrolled,
enrol, enrols) in Sta. Rosa College where she 5. (study,
studies, studied) Spanish and religion.
Activity 3: Encircle the time expression in each sentence
signalling past action.

1. Last night she watched the live stream of GMA News via

FB.

2. Grandma visited us last Sunday.

3. On a Saturday last week, the whole family was up early.

4. After early breakfast, we started the general cleaning

5. Alex prepared supper the other night.

Activity 4: Solve the crossword puzzle. Write answers in
your activity notebook.
1 2 3

6 7

8 9

10 11

12 13

14

16

17 18

Across – Past Tense of

2 find 13 bite
4 write 14 become
5 have 16 meet
6 spend 17 run
8 take 18 set

Down – Past Tense of

1 rise 10 shoot
2 feel 11 lost (base form)
3 do 12 come
4 be 13 bet
5 hit 14 bend
7 put 15 meet
9 keep
Activity 5: Writing your story using the past tense of verb

Write your own story:

Begin with: Last Sunday was a special day for my family and
me.

End with: I wish there were more days like last Sunday/

Write five sentences between the beginning and the ending.

II. THE PAST PERFECT TENSE
(Narrating Past Actions)

Earlier you studied about actions and events in the past

using the simple past tense.
This time, note how you need to see the differences in
expressing some things that occurred in the past.
How would you communicate an action or a condition
completed ahead of another past action?
Study the sentences

1. The bell had rung, when the students entered the room.
2. The students had sat when the principal came.
3. The teacher had prepared her board work before the
students arrived.

 Notice the action words.

 Did the actions happen at the same time?
 Which action happened first?
Let’s Learn More:

 Past perfect tense – used to denote the earlier of two

past actions

Example:

1. The bell had rung when we entered the room.

2. The teacher had called the roll before Jenny
arrived.

 Forms of past perfect tense:

1. Ordinary form: had + past participle of the main
verb
2. Continuous form: had been + Verb-ing

 Time expressions – include when, before, by the time,

after.
Example:
1. When the guest arrived, the program had already
started.
2. We had read the book before we saw the film
version of Braveheart.
3. By the time Miss Casal arrived, Jay had submitted
his report to the group leader.
4. Lea Salonga became more famous after she had
made outstanding performances abroad.
Activity 1: Choose the correct past perfect tense verb in
the sentence

1. The witness (had testify, had testifying, had testified)

before the court adjourned.
2. I went to school after I (had recovered, have recovered,
has recovered) from my sickness.
3. He (has read, had read, had been reading) the novel
before he saw the movie.
4. By the time I arrived home, he (had went, had go, had
gone) to bed.
5. I asked him to pay my watch since he (had lost, had lose,
had loosing) it.

Activity 2: Give the past perfect tense of the verbs in

parentheses. Write answers in activity notebook.

(read) 1. After I ________ Helen Keller’s Story of my

Life
I prepared a report on it.
(write) 2. Jose Rizal __________ Noli Me Tangere
before he worked on El Filibusterismo.
(leave) 3. Before you arrived, the participants _____
the library.
(go) 4. By the time the principal announced the
meeting, some of the teachers ________
 home.
(give) 5. When I asked for the receipt, she _______
it to the wrong person.

Activity 3: Underline the past tense (later action) in the

sentence.

1. Before she died, she had written her will.

2. After the package had arrived we left the house.
3. We went out after we had written our essay.
4. The boy who had won the contest received a prize.
5. I had gone when the meeting began.

Activity 4: Encircle the time expressions denoting past

perfect tense of verb.

1. When the family had stayed abroad for several years, they

returned.

2. By the time the pilot had landed the plane, the passengers

were ready.

3. The firemen had put out the fire before the chief arrived.

4. After we had eaten our lunch, our visitors arrived.

5. He had resigned before he was given a salary raise.

Activity 5: Complete the dialogues that follow. Write
answer in activity notebook.

1 A: What household chores had you done when Mother

arrived?
B: ________________________________________
2. A: What tasks had the students accomplished before
the teacher came?
B: ___________________________________________
3. A: What had happened when his father returned home
from Saudi Arabia
B: ___________________________________________
4. A: What had Dulce accomplished before she was
chosen
best student in English?
B: ___________________________________________
5 A: What numbers in the program has been presented
when the guest arrived late?
B: __________________________________________
Remember:

1. The simple past tense of the verb is used to express an

action that began and ended in the past; while
2. The past perfect tense denotes an action which took
place before another past action.
3. With the two actions used in a sentence, the action
expressed in the past perfect verb phrase took place
before the action expressed in the simple past tense.
4. Forms of regular verbs in simple past tense end with –d
or –ed; while
5. The irregular verbs change their spelling and even
sound
6. The form of verb in past perfect tense is had + past
participle form of verb
7. Time expressions such as yesterday, last night, in 2000,
etc signal simple past tense
8. Before, by the time, after, when signals past perfect
tense of verb.
Final Activity:
Find the earlier past actions (past perfect tense) and the
second past actions (simple past tense and the time
expressions used in the sentences. Write your answer in
the given table below.

1. He had told me before that he was in Europe

2. The storm had landed on land before classes were

suspended.

3. He was very happy after he had found his watch.

4. He had broken his eyeglasses before he told his mother.

5. By the time the flood came the farmers had harvested the

rice.

6. He succeeded after he had worked so hard.

7. Before it rained hard, the farmers had planted the rice.

8. He had gone to college, before he was awarded a

scholarship.
 9. After he had thought hard, he answered the teacher’s

question.

10. When the girls had made the sandwiches the boys

brought the juice.

Earlier past action Second past action Time

(Past Perfect Tense) (Simple past tense) expressions
1. had told was before
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
KEY TO CORRECTION:
I. Simple Past Tense 1. last night
Review 1: 2. last Sunday
1.1 & 2 sentences end in –d & - 3. after early breakfast
ed 4. last week
Sentences 3,4,5 have 5. the other night
different forms and endingr
2.Regular: visited, promised Activity 4:
Irregular: gave, put, set Across
Review 2: 2 found 13 bit
Regular Irregular 4 wrote 14 became
1. called known 5 had 16 met
2. agreed found
3. served was, were 6 spent 17 run
4. visited sit 8 took 18 set
5. recited spoke
Down:
Activity 1:
1 rose 10 shot
1. watched
2. rained 2 felt 11 lose
3. helped
3 did 12 came
4. checked
5. bought 4 was 13 bet
Activity 2: 5 hit 14 bent
1. grew 7 put 15 met
2. moved
3. taught 9 kept
4. enrolled Activity 5
5. studied
Answers may vary
Activity 3:
II. PAST PERFECT TENSE Activity 1:
Recall
1.There were two forms of 1. Had testified
verbs in each sentence 2. Had recovered
2.No 3. Had read
3.Verbs with had + past 4. Had gone
participle forms are actions 5. Had lost
in the past that happened Activity 2:
earlier
 1. Had read Activity 5:
2. Had written
3. Had left Answers may vary
4. Had gone Possible answers:
5. Had given
1. When mother arrived I had
Activity 3: washed the dishes.
1. Died 2. Before the teacher came, the
2. Left students had rehearsed for the
3. Went role play.
4. Received 3. When his father returned from
5. Began Saudi Arabia the family had
gone to the mall.
4. Before Dulce was chosen best
Activity 4: student in English, she had
joined several speaking
1. When contests in English Festival.
2. By the time 5. The G7 students had presented
3. Before their dance number when the
4. After guest arrived.
5. Before

Final Activity:
Earlier Past Action Late Past Action Time Expression
1. Had told Was Before
2. Had landed Were suspended Before
3. Had found Was After
4. Had broken Told Before
5. Had harvested Came By the time
6. Had worked Succeeded After
7. Had planted Rained Before
8. Had gone Was awarded Before
9. Had thought Answered After
10. Had made Brought When
REFERENCES:

Ventures in Communication I pp. 86-93

Bridges for Better Communication I p. 168
English Expressways III pp. 34-36
Effective Drills in Grammar for Third Year pp. 81-84
Effective Drills in Grammar for Second Year p. 75