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The Past Continuous Tense

The Past Continuous Tense. Use of the past continuous. To describe an action in progress at a certain/specific time. Affirmative structure. Negative structure. Yes/no questions. Information questions. I. was playing. badminton. at this time yesterday. was cycling. She.

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The Past Continuous Tense

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  1. The Past Continuous Tense

  2. Use of the past continuous • To describe an action in progress at a certain/specific time.

  3. Affirmative structure

  4. Negative structure

  5. Yes/no questions

  6. Information questions

  7. I was playing badminton at this time yesterday. was cycling She at 9:00am yesterday. They were playing at 6:30 last night. table tennis was / were verb+ing

  8. 3:00 yesterday Simon Simon _________ football at 3 pm yesterday. wasplaying The children 8 am yesterday The children __________ to school at 8 am yesterday. were going

  9. Exercise. Derek Derek was swimming at 6 am yesterday. Mandy Mandy was feeding her dog at 4 o’clock yesterday. Sam & Jess Sam and Jess were having dinner at 8 pm last night.

  10. Past continuous / progressive with While

  11. We use the past continuous tense to talk about two or more actions which were taking place at the same time in the past. THE ACTIONS TOOK A LONG PERIOD OF TIME. Example I was playing baseball while mother was cooking. We were studying the baby was crying. while

  12. It’s 3:00pm last Sunday. What were they doing? Example Grandfatherwas readingthe newspaper while grandmotherwas knitting. Cindywas listeningto music while Nickywas drawinga picture. Fatherwas sleeping motherwas drinkingsome water. while

  13. The Simple past vs the Past Continuous/Progressive Tense When and while

  14. Past continuous and simple past • Use Past Continuous with Simple Past to describe an action that was interrupted by another action.

  15. Sam hurt himself yesterday. What was he doing? jumping over the vaulting horse Sam hurt himself while he was jumping over the vaulting horse. shorter action longer action

  16. cut herself cut herself Nancy ___________while she ___________an apple. was peeling peel an apple watch TV were watching They _______________ TV whenI ___________. arrived arrive play football We ____________ football when it suddenly _______. were playing rained rain

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