Focus: Grammar in action

Learn when you should say 'I was doing' or 'I had done' instead of 'I did'.

Step 1:

Watch the video lesson twice.

The second time, stop the video when you hear a good example sentence and write it in your own notes.

Step 2:

When you've finished the video lesson, download the two Exercise PDFs below and do both sets of exercises.

Make sure you write complete sentences.

Step 3:

When you've finished both sets of exercises, download the ZIP file below.

Use the two Answer key PDFs to check and correct your answers.

Then, use the two Audio files to practise and master these Past tenses through two listening activities:

Activity 1: Listen & write (or type) each correct answer.

Activity 2: Listen & repeat each correct answer out loud several times without looking at the text.

Step 4:

When you feel you've fully mastered the material in this lesson, take the quiz.

You need to get a minimum score of 80% in each quiz to receive your Certificate of Completion, so repeat the quiz until you score above 80%. You can take each quiz up to 10 times.

Reminder:

When you look up a new word in an English-English dictionary, remember to practise its pronunciation too.

This will make it much easier for you to repeat that word in a sentence.