This document provides information about using the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It lists the affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms for regular and irregular verbs in the past simple (used for completed actions) and past continuous (used for ongoing actions). Examples of when to use each tense are given, such as using the past simple to describe a series of actions or the past continuous to talk about two simultaneous past actions. Signal words that indicate the past tenses are also outlined.