1 / 21

Unit 2 Travelling Period 5 Grammar(1) 1. Past continuous tense 2. Past continuous tense

Unit 2 Travelling Period 5 Grammar(1) 1. Past continuous tense 2. Past continuous tense with ‘while’ and ‘when’. Past continuous tense We use the past continuous tense to talk about that were happening for some time in the past. We are having an English class now.

jkirby
Download Presentation

Unit 2 Travelling Period 5 Grammar(1) 1. Past continuous tense 2. Past continuous tense

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Unit 2 Travelling Period 5 Grammar(1) 1. Past continuous tense 2. Past continuous tense with ‘while’ and ‘when’

  2. Past continuous tense We use the past continuous tense to talk about that were happening for some time in the past. We are having an English class now. We were having a Physics class at this time yesterday.

  3. What were you doing during your winter holiday? (do our homework/read books/play chess/…) We were doing our homework during our winter holiday. What were your English teachers doing then? (read English books/ prepare lessons/…)

  4. Task 1 We were writing a composition at this time yesterday. last month.

  5. We make positive and negative sentences using the past continuous tense like this. I/He/She/It You/We/You/They was (not) singing. were (not) dancing.

  6. ---Was your father having a meeting at 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon? --- Yes, he was. --- Was your mother having a meeting, too? --- No, she wasn’t. She was discussing the project on travelling.

  7. --- Were your parents watching TV at 8 last night? --- No, they weren’t. --- What were they doing then? --- They were reading newspapers.

  8. We ask questions using the past continuous tense like this. Was he/she/it eating? Yes/No, he/she/it was/wasn’t. Were you/they/we walking? Yes/No,we/you/theywere/weren’t.

  9. Past continuous tense with ‘while’ and ‘when’ What was your cousin doing when you got home yesterday? She was dancing to the music when I got home. = While she was dancing to the music, I got home.

  10. I was chatting with my new friends while my parents were packing the luggage. = I was chatting with my new friends when my parents were packing luggage.

  11. 1) What were you doing when I came in? 2) What were you doing while/when I was reading? Task2

  12. Grammar We use the past continuous tense to talk about things that were happening for some time in the past. When two long actions went on at the same time, we can use the past continuous tense in both clauses and ‘while’ to join them. When something else happened while a longer action was going on, we can use ‘when’ or ‘while’ to join the two actions. We use the past continuous tense for the longer action and the simple past tense for the shorter action.

  13. Exercise 4 Make some past continuous sentences according to the following times, activities and people Yesterday Class 4 students 6.40 have breakfast 7.50 have a Chinese lesson 10.10 do morning exercises 11.15 do eye exercises 12.00~12.30 have lunch 12.40~13.25 have a rest

  14. Exercise 3 Kitty: I saw you in the computer room yesterday, Simon. What were you doing there? Simon: I______________ (search) the World Wide Web. I ___________ (look) for some photos of Australia for my project. Kitty: Oh, I thought you _______________ (discuss) the project with Daniel. Simon: No. Daniel ___________ (talk) to Millie. They _____________ (plan) a trip to Tianjin. They ___________(look) for some information about it. Daniel _________ (try) to find a map of Tianjin and Millie _____________ (read) some guidebook. was searching was looking were discussing was talking were planning were looking was trying was reading

  15. Exercise 1 1. My brother ____________ (listen) to the music while he ___________ (make) a model plane. 2. Her mother____________ (cook) dinner when the telephone _____(ring). 3. We ___________ (have) a sports meeting while it __________ (rain) yesterday afternoon. was listening was making was cooking rang were having was raining

  16. 4. My grandpa ___________ (read) the newspaper when I ____ (leave) home. 5. Ling Feng ____________ (draw) a horse on the blackboard when the teacher______ (come) into the classroom. 6. Peter ___________ (look) at some photos when I ______ (give) him a pencil. was reading left was drawing came was looking gave

  17. Exercise 2 1. ________________________________________ (when/you/arrive/I/read a book) 2. While ____________________________ ____________________ (while/I/sleep on the sofa/the telephone/ ring) 3. Daniel____________________________________ ________________________________ (Daniel/work on the computer/ while/Kitty/stand beside him) When you arrived, I was reading a book. I was sleeping on the sofa, the telephone rang. was working on the computer while Kitty was standing beside him.

  18. dropped a glass while she was sleeping on the floor. 4. Mrs. Wang __________________________ ___________________________ (drop a glass/while/sleep on the floor) 5. What ________________________________ (when/came in/were/you/doing/what/I) 6.While_________________________________ ___________________ (Miss Gao/saying to himself/writing/while /Jack was/was) were you doing when I came in? Miss Gao was writing, Jack was saying to himself.

  19. 7. Peter____________________________ ___________________________ (look at some photos/while/Millie /give him a pencil) was looking at some photos when Millie gave him a pencil. 8. When___________________________ ________________________ (came/were/watching/TV/room /into/when/Henry/parents/the/his) Herry came into the room, his parents were watching TV.

  20. Let’s play a game. Work in groups of four. The first three write out time, activities and people, the last one should make a past continuous sentence with the above.

  21. Homework: Make two sentences with the past continuous tense. Pay attention to the use of ‘while’ and ‘when’.

More Related