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Mastering Past Continuous Tense: Form, Usage, and Practice

Explore the Past Continuous Tense with its uses, formation rules, and practice exercises to enhance your understanding of this verb tense. Learn how to express ongoing actions in the past and how they can be interrupted by shorter past actions.

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Mastering Past Continuous Tense: Form, Usage, and Practice

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  1. Grammar Esercitazioni di Inglese EGST 2016-2017 Dott.ssa Barbara Meloni teacher.barbara.meloni@gmail.com barbara.meloni@unica.it

  2. 12 April 2017 • Lesson overview • Talking about past tenses…. • Past Tenses Contrasted • The Past Continuous • RelatedGrammar & Listening Exercises

  3. THE PAST CONTINUOUS We often use the Past Continuous at the beginning of a story to set thescene and to say what was happening. Ex. : On April 1stI was staying with some friends in the country. It was a sunny day and we were sunbathing in the garden.

  4. THE PAST CONTINUOUS • I was working • Youwere working • He / She / It was working • We were working • Youwere working • Theywere working

  5. THE PAST CONTINUOUS • -Very frequently these “actions inprogress” (Past Continuous) are “interrupted” by a short, completed action (Past Simple). we use the simple past tense to express a short action that happens in the middle of the long action. We can join the two ideas with when or while.

  6. THE PAST CONTINUOUS • We have two actions:1.long action (watching TV), expressed with past continuous tense2.short action (telephoned), expressed with simple past tense • when + short action (simple past tense)while + long action (past continuous tense) • When you telephoned, I was watching TV. • While I was watching TV, you telephoned me.

  7. THE PAST CONTINUOUS • → Similarity in form with the Present Continuous: it is identical except for using was/wereinstead of am/is/are

  8. Some practice… • David ______ (shave)when his wife ______ (come) home yesterday. • The chef ______ (cook) a delicious meal when the guests ______ (start) toarrive.

  9. Some practice… • While he ______ (talk) on the phone, his baby ______ (sleep). • Diana ______ (kiss) her boyfriend when her • parents ______ (come back) • home from the theatre.

  10. ANSWERS • David was shaving when his wife came • home yesterday. • The chef was cooking a delicious meal when • the guests started to arrive.

  11. ANSWERS • While he was talking on the phone, the baby • slept. • Diana was kissing her boyfriend when her • parents came back home from the theatre.

  12. THE PAST CONTINUOUS…

  13. Thinking about Past tenses: • The Past Perfect • EVENT A EVENT B • John had gone out when I arrived at the • office. • I had saved my documents before the computer crashed.

  14. THE PAST PERFECT…… • FORM • It is composed by two elements: • The Past Simple of the verb have (had) + • The past participle of the main verb. • Ex. She had given • She hadn’t decided • Hadn’t she finished?

  15. The Past Perfect • Past Perfect + just: • We use the Past Perfect + just to talk about an event which happened immediately before the moment of speaking: • The train had just left when I arrived at the • station.

  16. Thinking about Past tenses…….The Past Perfect

  17. Thinking about Past Tenses…THE PAST PERFECT

  18. Thinking about Past tenses….

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