Past Simple and Past Progressive

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Past Simple
Past Progressive
Elementary, my dear Watson!
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What were you saying? I wasnt listening
Hum Im terribly sorry
I was just presumingthat
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What were you doing last night at 1025, Ms.
Jamieson?
I was dinning out with the Parksons.
She has a good alibi, I dare say,Holmes,dont you
think?
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Mr. Bullock climbed the stairs when he tripped
and fell
Mr. Bullock was climbing the stairs when he
tripped and fell
Speculating...
Upon my faith,WatsonThats it!
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Past Simple
Past Progressive

• Action in progress at a definite time in the past
• The action was still happening when another
  action started in the past

• Enumeration of actions that finished in the past
• Result

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Did you hear or see anything strange last night
at 1025?
Well, I was trying to read last night around
1015 when I saw a strange light at my window.
I was preparing to go to bed when I heard someone
screaming.
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when I walked into the room.
Past Simple
Past Progressive
Mr.Bullock and Ms. Jamieson were arguing about
something
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Could you tell me what you were doing exactly at
10,25 last Monday?
Did you see or hear anything suspect?
Strange
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Years ago / in ( year)/ from (year ) to
( year)Past Simple
Last/ yesterday Past Simple
While / As Past Progressive
Elementary, my dear Watson!
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I got a package in the b)
mail.When I opened it
While Mr. Emerson was reading the little girl a
story, a)
I was waiting for an important call. 4)
I called Roger at nine last night, c)
but he was at the library studying. 2)
she fell asleep, so he closed the
book. 3)
Why werent you at the meeting place? d)
I found a surprise.1)
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The End / Fin
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UQAM PCPES-FPE-7650-été 2005 ,groupe 20
Who did it in fact Adriana Balan
ResponsableMme Monique Dugal

• Auxiliaires
• Isabelle Roy
• Philipe Lampron

02 JUIN 2005
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Ressources

• www.sherlock-holmes.co.uk/home.htm
• http//office.microsoft.com/clipart
• www.insideout.net/e-lessons.htm
• http//www.onestopenglish.com
• Dean ,Michael- English Grammar Lessons, Oxford
  University Press,1993
• Dugal,Monique- Notes de cours FPE 7650, TIC dans
  lenseignement aux moyens et grands groupes,
  UQAM, Fac de leducation, automne 2004