K. Past tense

K. Past Tense

 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


 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


 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

 Adverbs used : at the time like this yesterday, at seven o’clock last night, etc.