Showing posts with label Past tenses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Past tenses. Show all posts

Tuesday, 22 September 2020

Crime and Punishment

The following paragraph and key words come from a mistery story.
You have to act the detective and ask your teacher questions. Use past simple, past continuous or past perfect.
Your teacher will only answer: YES or NO.

Crime and Punishment

A man got on the train and sat down in a compartment which was empty except for one lady. She took her glove off. A few hours later the man was arrested by the police. They held him for 24 hours and were then forced to let him go free. 

GARDEN
LOVER
30 YEARS
VANISH
JAIL

Solution:
Thirty years before, the gloved lady had been lmarried to the man on the train. She and her lover had disappeared and left the country. Before vanishing they had cut off the two middle fingers of her left hand and buried them on the garden. The police found the fingers while investigating her disappearance and accused the man of murdering his wife and burying the rest of her somewhere else. He was jailed for 30 years for a crime he had not committed. 
He did not recognise her at first on the train. When she took off her gloves he did. He killed her. The police had to release him as he had served his life sentence before committing the crime. 

Friday, 5 February 2010

Past verbal tenses

The other day I was surfing the Internet and I found by chance this great power point presentation created by an English teacher and I thought I should share it with you. So here it is.
It presents all the verbal tenses in the past. We have not studied the past perfect continuous yet, because this is in the 2nd of Batxillerat syllabus, but have a look at the other tenses for revision.
The Dark Past