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    This document provides instruction on using the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It explains that the past simple is used to talk about completed past events, while the past continuous is used to talk about ongoing past activities. Examples are given of using both tenses together to describe events that were occurring simultaneously in the past. Practice exercises follow for the learner to complete using the past tenses correctly. Links to online games are also included to reinforce understanding of these verb tenses.

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    This document provides instruction on using the past simple and past continuous tenses in English. It explains that the past simple is used to talk about completed past events, while the past continuous is used to talk about ongoing past activities. Examples are given of using both tenses together to describe events that were occurring simultaneously in the past. Practice exercises follow for the learner to complete using the past tenses correctly. Links to online games are also included to reinforce understanding of these verb tenses.

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    Past simple & past

    continuous
    • Read the following comics and answer the questions
    Comic 1
    Comic 2
    COMIC 1
    • What did Garfield do?
    • When did that happen?

    COMIC 2
    What was the woman doing while she was driving?
    How did actions happened?
    Can you recognise the tenses used? What are these? How do you use
    them?
    Presentation
    • The past simple and the past continuous tenses are used to talk about
    the past.

    We use the past continuous to talk about a


    We use the past simple to talk
    past activity that was in progress at a particular
    about a completed event in the
    time in the past: At 8 am, I was eating
    past:
    breakfast. ‘Where were you last night?’ ‘I was
    Yesterday, I had breakfast. Last
    sleeping.’
    summer, I went to Italy
    • We use the past simple and past continuous to
    talk about a completed past event that
    happened when another activity was in
    progress:
    • It started to rain while I was walking in the park.
    Past simple • I was watching TV when the phone rang.
    • What were you doing when he arrived?
    & Past
    continuous
    Practice 1
    Complete the sentences using the correct form of the past continuous tense of the verbs in
    brackets:

    • 1. Joanne (make) breakfast when Peter called.


    • 2. While he (do) the dishes, he ran out of washing up liquid.
    • 3. They decided to go to the beach while the sun (still/shine)
    • 4. I called you this morning, but you didn’t answer the phone.
    (you/take) a shower?
    • 5. At 8pm last night, Mario (not/do) his homework. He (play) computer
    • games instead!
    • 6. John had a car accident while he (drive) to work. He (talk) on his
    • mobile when he reversed into a tree.
    Practice 2 Self-study: Make sentences about you using the past
    continuous. Class activity: Work in pairs. Ask your partner what he
    or she was doing at the specific times mentioned below:
    • Example: At 8am yesterday, I was having breakfast.
    What were you doing at 8am yesterday? I was having breakfast.
    • 8am yesterday
    • midday yesterday
    • 4:30pm yesterday
    • 9pm last night
    • midnight last night
    • 7:00 this morning
    Practice 3 Complete the sentences using the correct form of the past
    continuous or past simple tense of the verbs in brackets:
    • 1. What film (you/watch) when I (call) you last night?
    • 2. While he (jog) in the park, a dog (bite) him on the leg.
    • 3. I (see) Adam again in the park this morning. He (walk) his dog.
    • 4. You (not/hear) me get home last night because you (sleep).
    • 5. John (not/take) his umbrella with him last night because it
    (not/rain).
    • 6. Mr. Lee (work) so hard that he (fall) asleep at this desk.
    • 7. While they (swim), Sam (spot) a dangerous shark. They quickly
    (swim) back to the shore and (alert) the lifeguard.
    • 8. (you/have) lunch when I (call) your office yesterday?
    Time to play

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