Standard Competency :

 To comprehend and express the meanings of

short functional and simple monolog essay

texts in the form of past tense in the daily life
context to access knowledge
Basic Competency :
 To respond and express the meaning nuance
and the rhetorical steps within the short
functional and simple monolog essay texts in
the form of past tense (simple past tense, past
continuous tense, past perfect tense)accurately
and fluently in the daily life context to access
knowledge
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Indicators :
After having finished the lesson, the student
are expected to be able to:
 understand the pattern of past tense
 identify past tense in a certain text
 use past tense in making sentences and telling

an event or action.
 Simple past is formed for regular verbs by
adding –ed to the root of a word. Example: He
walked to the store. A negation is produced by
adding did not and the verb in its infinitive
form. Example: He did not walk to the store.
Question sentences are started with did as in
Did he walk to the store?
Simple past is used for describing acts that
have already been concluded and whose exact
time of occurrence is known. Furthermore,
simple past is used for retelling successive
events. That is why it is commonly used in
storytelling
• Simple Past Tense is a kind of tense which is used
to describe an event or action that happened
already in a certain time in the past
The pattern :
(+) Subject + verb II +
complement
 (-) Subject + did not + verb II +
complement
 (?) Did + subject + verb I
The examples :
 (+) I went to Tangkiling yesterday
 (-) I did not go anywhere last night
 (?) Did you go last week?

Adverbs used : yesterday, last night, last

week, two days ago, a few minutes ago,
last weekend, last month, last year, in
1984, etc.
• Past Continuous Tense is a kind of tense that is
used to describe an event or an action which was
happening in a certain time in the past
 The pattern : (
 +) Subject + was/were +verb-ing+ complement
 (-) Subject + was not/were not+verb-ing+ complement
 (?) was/were+ subject + verb-ing+complement
The examples :
(+) He was writing a letter at eight o’clock last night
(-) He was not writing a letter at seven o’clock last night
(?) Were you writing a letter at eight last night?

Adverbs used : at the time like this

yesterday, at seven o’clock last night, etc.
Past Perfect Tense is a kind of tense that is used to
describe an action or an event that started in a
certain time in the past and completed or finished till
certain time in the past too; or past perfect tense is
used to express an action or an event that had
happened before the other event or action happened
The pattern :
 (+) Subject + had+verb III+cmplement
 (-) Subject + had not+ver III+complement
 (?) Had + subject +verb III+complement
(+) We had eaten before they came
 (-) They had not eaten before we came
 (?) Had they eaten before we came?
 Adverbsused :
from 1998 to 1999,
once, twice, etc.
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