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PAST SIMPLE or PAST CONTINUOUS

PAST SIMPLE or PAST CONTINUOUS. PAST SIMPLE. Verbs may be: REGULAR: I played tennis yesterday. IRREGULAR (second column of irregular verbs) She ate ice-cream in winter. Past Simple form ( REGULAR VERBS). To form the past simple of regular verbs we usually add -ED to the verb :

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PAST SIMPLE or PAST CONTINUOUS

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  1. PAST SIMPLE or PAST CONTINUOUS

  2. PAST SIMPLE • Verbs may be: • REGULAR: I played tennis yesterday. • IRREGULAR (second column of irregular verbs) She ate ice-cream in winter.

  3. Past Simple form(REGULAR VERBS) • To formthepast simple of regular verbsweusuallyadd -ED to theverb: BOIL --- BOILED FILL --- FILLED • Spellingchanges: • Iftheverbends in –E weadd –D LIVE --- LIVED USE --- USED • Iftheverbends in consonant + Y wechange Y into I TRY --- TRIED CRY --- CRIED • Onesyllableverbsending in vowel + consonant (exceptfor W o Y) wedoubletheconsonant PLAN --- PLANNED STOP --- STOPPED • Twosyllableverbsending in vowel + consonantwhenthe final syllableisstressedwedoubletheconsonant PERMIT --- PERMITTED REFER --- REFERRED • Iftheverbends in –L wedoubletheconsonant: TRAVEL --- TRAVELLED LABEL --- LABELLED Exceptions: WORSHIP --- WORSHIPPED KIDNAP --- KIDNAPPED

  4. PAST SIMPLE: affirmative, negativeorinterrogative • AFFIRMATIVE: • He painted the wall • We woke up very early • NEGATIVE: • He didn’t paint the wall • We didn’t wake up very early • INTERROGATIVE: • Did he paint the wall? • Did we wake up very early?

  5. PAST CONTINUOUS Form: was / were + –ING form He was playing golf They were studying

  6. PAST CONTINUOUS: affirmative, negativeorinterrogative • AFIRMATIVE: • He was painting the wall • We were waking up very early • NEGATIVE: • He wasn’t painting the wall • We weren’t waking up very early • INTERROGATIVE: • Was he painting the wall? • Were we waking up very early?

  7. Spelling Rules for the Continuous [-ing] - Some verbs just need ‘ing’ adding to them: read – reading / stand – standing / jump - jumping - If a verb ends in a silent ‘e’, drop the final ‘e’ and add ‘ing’: leave – leaving / take – taking / receive - receiving - In a one syllable word, if the three last letters are consonant – vowel –consonant (cvc), double the last consonant before adding ‘ing’: sit – sitting / run – running / hit - hitting …however, Do not double the consonant in words that end in w, x, or y : sew – sewing / fix – fixing / enjoy - enjoying - In words of two or more syllables that end in a consonant-vowel-consonant combination, double the last consonant only if the last syllable is stressed: admit – admitting / regret – regretting / begin - beginning - If a verb ends in ‘ie’, change the ‘ie’ to y before adding ‘ing’ : die – dying / lie - lying

  8. PAST SIMPLE OR PAST CONTINUOUS

  9. Past Simple vs. PastContinuous • Conjunctions: • WHEN(usedwithPast Simple) • WHILE (usedwithPastContinuous). Uses 1. A short action (Past Simple) interrupts a longaction (PastContinuous) • John waswatching TV whenhisfriendarrived. 2. Twolongactions (PastContinuous) happen at thesame time. • I wasdoingthewashing up whilemybrotherwaswatching TV. 3. Two short actions (Past Simple) happenoneaftertheother. - When I heardtheexplosion, I phonedthepolice.

  10. Review • Simple past = action or state finished in the past (yesterday, last…, … ago, etc.) • Past continuous = was/were + verb+ing, an action that was in progress/not finished when another action happened (interrupted)

  11. Practice: Do you have a good memory?Are you a good witness? • Directions: Look at the following picture for one minute. Try to remember as many details as you can, but don’t write anything.

  12. Only one minute… • Ready, go ….

  13. One minute…

  14. What do you remember? • How many people were there? • Where were the people? • What was hanging from the ceiling? • What was the bank robber holding? • What was the bank robber wearing? • What color was his hair? • What was covering the bank robber’s face? • Was the bank robber right-handed or left-handed? • What was the bank manager doing? • What was the bank teller doing? • Who was walking into the bank? • What time was it? • What was under the bank manager’s desk?

  15. Activities • Exercise 1 • Exercise 2

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