Simple Past and Past Continuous

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Simple Past and Past Continuous
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1- Simple Past Tense

• Actions, events, states that started and finished
  in the past (ago, last , yesterday )
• Regular verbs - ed
• Irregular verbs 2nd column

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Tell your partner use past simple

• What did you do yesterday?
• What did you eat last night?
• When did he come last week?
• What was the food like?
• Why were they absent yesterday?
• Where were you Saturday morning?

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2- Past continuous

• The action started before that moment but has
  not finished at that moment.
• The most common use of the past continuous
  tense is to talk about something that was
  happening around a particular time 
• - What were you doing at 9 in the evening?
• - I was watching TV.
• - We were playing Monopoly.

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Past continuous

• I was
• You were
• He was
• She was Verb ing
• It was
• We were
• You were
• They were

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Tell a classmate use past continuous verbs
was / were _______ing

• What were you doing Friday at 5 p.m.?
• What was he driving Sunday morning at 7 a.m.?
• What was your sister watching last night at nine
  oclock?
• What were the boys playing last Saturday
  afternoon?

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EXAMPLES Past Continuous

• Sorry, I wasnt listening to you while you were
  talking.
• While I was reading, he was writing.

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3- Simple past met past continuous

• I was crossing the street when the driver ran
  through the red light.
• I was sleeping when the telephone rang .
• He was driving too fast when he crashed the car.
• I was trying to study when you called.

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Form of Past Continuous MAKE SENTENCES

• Affirmative
• Subject was / were verb ing
• Negation
• Subject was / were not verb Ing
• Yes/ No Question
• Was / Were subject verb ing ?
• Information Question
• (WH) Was / Were subject verb ing
  ?

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A little practice 1

• The telephone (ring) when I (take a shower).
• The telephone rang when I was taking a shower.
• I (eat) dinner when you (come) in.
• I was eating dinner when you came in.
• It (rain) while they (walk) home.
• It was raining while they were walking home.
• We (see) an accident when we (drive) on the
  freeway.
• We saw an accident when we were driving on the
  freeway.

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A little practice 2

• She (chop) onions when she (cut) her finger.
• She was chopping onions when she cut her finger
• We (watch) TV when the electricity (go) out.
• We were watching TV when the electricity went
  out.
• My dad (do) the dishes while my mum (send) an
  email.
• My dad was doing the dishes while my mum was
  sending an email.

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Final Tips

• Use while for two actions in progress at the same
  time in the past
• E.g. She was talking while he was driving.
• Use when for an action that was in progress that
  was interrupted by another event in the past)
• E.g. I was just leaving when you called.

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Punctuation with When and While

• When and while at the front of a sentence, use a
  comma
• When you called, I was watching TV.
• While he was washing the clothes, I was doing the
  dishes.
• When and while in the middle of a sentence, no
  comma
• I was watching TV when you called.
• I was doing the dishes while he was washing the
  clothes.