1. Present and Past – Simple & Progressive
Chapter 2
Present and Past – Simple & Progressive

2. Warm Up Activity & Preview
Complete exercise 1 on p. 13
Read explanation boxes on p. 14, 16, 20-21, 27, 29, 33, and 34
We will go over all of these points together

3. Jazz includes music from many eras.
Use the simple present to talk about a situation that exists now, has existed in the past, and will probably exist in the future.
Jazz includes music from many eras.
music from the past?
YES
Use simple present
JAZZ
music from the present?
YES
music from the future?
YES

4. The Simple Present
Used to talk about REPEATED ACTIVITIES like habits, routines or scheduled events
ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY AND TIME EXPRESSIONS are often used with the simple present
(usually, every hour, once in awhile, occasionally)
Example (Routine): I usually drink two cups of coffee in the morning.
Example (Schedule): The bus comes every hour.

5. The Simple Present
The simple present can also be used to DESCRIBE FACTUAL INFORMATION, such as GENERAL truths or definitions.
Example (General Truth): Some babies don’t sleep at night.
Example (Definition): A recliner is a comfortable chair that leans back.

6. The Simple Present

7. Present Continuous Use Present Continuous to talk about:
Activities in progress at this EXACT moment
I’m drinking a cup of coffee right now.
Activities in progress over a period of time
I’m taking three classes.
New or temporary situations
I’m living with my parents until I get a job.
To express complaints
My brother is constantly drinking coffee. He should drink more water.

8. The Present Continuous Tense
Affirmative: Play I Am
Playing We
Are
You
He/She/It Is
They
are

9. Practice
Complete Exercise 4 - p. 15

10. Listening Practice
Complete Exercise 5 – p. 15

11. Non-Progressive Verbs
Some verbs are non-progressive (stative). They describe states – not actions.
They are rarely used in progressive tenses.
Example: I am knowing your cousin
See p. 16 for common non-progressive (stative) verbs.

12. Non-Progressive Verbs
Some verbs can have both non-progressive and progressive meanings.
I think that your cousin is nice.
I’m thinking about my trip to Rome.
See p. 16 for common verbs with both progressive and non-progressive meanings.

13. Practice
Complete Exercise 9 & 10 (p )

14. Jazz music is a constantly evolving musical style and is characterized by the fact that it includes many different styles of music from many different eras. The word jazz was first used to refer to music in Chicago around However, jazz started far earlier than that. The roots of jazz began in the 1800s in early blues, a folk music which arose in part from the work songs of rural Blacks. This music was highly improvisational, a feature which remains fundamental to jazz today. In fact, a skilled jazz performer will interpret a tune in very individual ways and will rarely play a song exactly the same way twice.

15. A jazz band played at my sister’s wedding last week.
Use the simple past to talk about an action that began and ended in the past.
A jazz band played at my sister’s wedding last week.
My sister’s wedding
Right
Now
The band is not playing now.
The band played.

16. Use the simple past for an activity that began and ended at a particular time in the past.
Last week I listened to a famous jazz trumpeter at the local community college.
NOW
listened to the jazz player
began and ended in the past

17. Simple Past Base form of verb + -ed
I worked on this lesson plan last night.
You did not complete your homework over the weekend.
Did he pass his class?
How did he pass his class?

18. Irregular Verbs
Sometimes when we conjugate a verb to make it past tense, we don’t add the –ed ending.
These are called IRREGULAR verbs, and there are a lot of them in the English language.
Don’t ask me WHY we have irregular verbs, it seems quite stupid to me, but we still have to learn them!

19. Irregular Verbs Come - Came Do - Did Eat - Ate Get - Got Go - Went
Have - Had
Put - Put
See - Saw
Sit - Sat
Sleep - Slept
Stand - Stood
Write - Wrote
Read - Read (pronounced “red”)
See p for more irregular verbs

20. Listening Practice Complete Exercise 16 (listening), p. 24

21. Pronunciation of –ed Ending
Determined by the SOUND at the end of the vase form of the verb
Voiceless: sounds like /t/
Looked
Clapped
Missed
Watched
Voiced: sounds like /d/
Smelled
Saved
Played
/t/ and /d/: sounds like /ed/
Decided
Needed

22. Practice
Complete Exercise 21 (listening), p. 27

23. Use the past progressive for activities that were in progress at a particular time in the past.
Later in the early 1900s, as black musicians were beginning to play music at dances and clubs, ragtime developed.
NOW
playing music at clubs
ragtime
developed

24. Past Progressive
Use Past Progressive to express an activity in progress over an extended period of time in the past. The activity began before a specific point in time and MAY or MAY NOT have continued after that time.
He was getting ready for be at 11:40 p.m. He still wasn’t ready 10 minutes later.

25. Past Progressive
Use Past Progressive to express an activity in progress over an extended period of time in the past
The activity may have been ongoing or may have stopped and started repeatedly.
They were working on the project for two years.

26. Past Progressive
Use Past Progressive to describe background activities happening at the same time as the main event in a story.
The main event is in simple past.
The background activities are in past progressive
It was raining hard outside. I was sleeping and my roommate was taking a shower. At exactly 7 a.m., there was a huge clap of thunder. I jumped up as the house shook violently.

27. Past Progressive Was/Were + Verb + -ing
I was working on this lesson plan last night.
I was not working on the lesson plan while the Royals game was on.
Were you working on this lesson plan last night?
Why were you working on this lesson plan last night?
Note: 2nd and 3rd person plural = were

28. Simple Past vs. Past Progressive
Simple past = emphasizes the COMPLETION of an event. The event happened and is over and done with.
Past continuous = emphasizes an activity or process that started in the past. The activity may or may not have been completed.
Ask yourself: “Am I talking about a completed event or one that was in progress?”

29. Practice 2
Complete each sentence with the correct past tense form of the verb.
Many different musical styles _________________ (contribute) to the development of jazz.
2. Early jazz musicians________________ (combine) folk music, work songs, and rag-time.
3. During the middle of the 20th century, jazz _________________ (influence) not only musical styles, but also cultural styles in many parts of the country.
4. By the 1980s and 1990s, people all over the world ________________________ ( listen) to jazz music.
contributed
combined
was influencing
were listening

30. Time Clauses Time clauses often appear with past tense verbs.
Time clauses begin with time words like:
While (while I was sleeping)
When (when she was two)
Before (before breakfast)
After (after school)

31. Independent vs. Dependent Clauses
An INDEPENDENT clause is a Subject + Verb that is a COMPLETE THOUGHT.
I was sleeping.
He slept.
A DEPENDENT clause either lacks a Subject or Verb or is NOT a complete thought.
While working (no subject)
Before I slept (not a complete thought)

32. Time Clauses A time clause is ALWAYS a DEPENDENT clause.
It HAS to be attached to an independent clause.
It can come BEFORE or AFTER the independent clause.
While I was working, the dogs were sleeping.
The dogs were sleeping while I was working.

33. Time Clauses
If the time clause comes BEFORE the independent clause, you put a comma (,) between the two clauses.
It the time clause comes AFTER the independent clause you DO NOT put a comma between the two clauses.

34. Practice
Complete Exercise 27, p. 30

35. Progressive Verbs with always
In sentences referring to present time, usually the simple present is used with always to describe habitual or everyday activities.
Mary always leaves for school at 7:45.
In special circumstances, a speaker may use the present progressive with always (or forever/constantly) to express annoyance:
Mary is always leaving her dirty socks on the floor.
I am constantly picking up Mary’s dirty socks.

36. Practice
Complete Exercise 35, p

37. Using Expressions of Place with Progressive Verbs
In usual word order, an expression of place follows a verb.
She’s studying IN HER ROOM.
Emphasizes her activity
An expression of place can sometimes come between the helping be and the –ing verb.
Mary is IN HER ROOM studying.
Emphasizes her location

38. Practice Complete Exercise 37, p. 34 Complete Exercise 38, p. 35
Complete chapter review packet

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