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The Past Continuous: Miss Cinthia Zapata

The document discusses the use of the past continuous tense, which is used to describe actions that were ongoing or in progress during a period of time in the past. Some examples provided include "I was having lunch at 1pm yesterday" and "I was playing football all day yesterday." The past continuous can be used with the past simple tense to refer to a longer background action that was interrupted by a shorter action.

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The Past Continuous: Miss Cinthia Zapata

The document discusses the use of the past continuous tense, which is used to describe actions that were ongoing or in progress during a period of time in the past. Some examples provided include "I was having lunch at 1pm yesterday" and "I was playing football all day yesterday." The past continuous can be used with the past simple tense to refer to a longer background action that was interrupted by a shorter action.

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The past continuous

Miss Cinthia Zapata


Use of the past continuous.
• The action takes place continuously
in the past.
•e.g: I was having lunch at 1pm yesterday.

• An action in progress at every moment


during a period of time.
•
•e.g: I was playing football all day yesterday.

•
•
Use of the past continuous
• It is usually used with the past
simple.
•
•(The past continuous refers to a ¨longer¨or
¨background¨
•action; the past simple refers to ashorter action
that
•interrupted the ¨longer¨action, or happened in the
middle
•of it.)

• e.g:
•
She was eating a hamburger when the phone
•
rang.
•

•
Use of the past simple
• We use the past continuous to say
that an action in the past was
temporary.
•e.g: They were living in Paris for a year.

• We use the past continuous with


frecuency adverbs to talk about
things that happened repeatedly.
•e.g: My grandfather was always telling us

funny stories.
The Past Continuous
• Positive Negative
•

• I • I
• He • He
• She ____________ • She _____________
talking talking
• It • It
• •
• You • You
• We _____________ • We _____________
talking talking
• They • They
The Past Continuous
•Question • Short Answer
• I •Yes, I was No, I wasn’t

•
was he •Yes, he was

wasn’t
No, he
•__________ she
working? •Yes, she was No, she

• it wasn’t
•Yes, it was No, it wasn’t
•

were
•
•
•
• you
•___________ we Yes, you were No, your
•

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. W h a t w e re h e r frie n d s d o in g w h e n sh e a rrive d ? Fillin th e sp
instructions.

DANCE LISTEN SIT DRINK


TALK

Hugo

Ann
Kemal
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Mar co
Luisa
Fill in the blanks using the past continuous.

1.
w a s w ritin g
2.I ___________________letters all day yesterday.
(write)
• w e re
•2. You__________________very slow about it. (be)
• 
w e re ta lkin g
•3. You____________________on the phone for
hours.w(talk)
e re n ’ t d o in g
 
•

4.They _________________d business before lunch.


w e re o in g
(do NEGATIVE)
•

•6. w She
a sn ’______________to
t sp e a kin g me all week. (speak
NEGATIVE)
• 

•
w a sn ’ t ra in in g
•7. It ________________for long. (rain NEGATIVE)
• 

•
w e re d o in g
•8. What______you________ when I phoned
yesterday? (do)
• 
W e re w a tch in g
•

9.
• ________you____________TV when it

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