What tense?
My sister saw a movie
Past simple
I ____ the dishes
washed
The past continuous is made from the past tense of the verb ____ and the ____ form of a verb
be
ing
Rained
Change the sentence from past continuous to past simple.
I was living in America last year.
a, I live in America last year
b, I lived in America last year
c, I would live in America last year
b, I lived in America last year
She was working
Past continuous
Last year, I _____ to France
travelled
Last night I _______.
was watching TV
was eating dinner
was sleeping
What ___ at eight o'clock last night?
a.you were doing
b.you doing
c.were you doing
c.were you doing
We use the ______ to talk about actions that were in progress (not finished) at a specific moment in the past.
a. past continuous
b. past simple
a. past continuous
I cooked pasta last night
Past Simple
Answer this question in the past simple
Where did you go this weekend?
This weekend I went to the park
Answer this questions with the past continuous
What were you doing before this?
Before class, I was walking
I was reading
I ____ a biologist before I was a teacher
a.would be
b.used to be
c. used to
b. used to be
I ______ watch the movie last night. My TV was broken.
a. could
b. can't
c. couldn't
c. couldn't
When I was young we visited the same restaurant every weekend.
Past Continuous
The simple past tense is one of the three major tenses in English, which generally refers to actions that occured in the _____
past
When I got to work, I realised that I ___ my watch.
a.were not wearing
b.was not wearing
c.wasn't wearing
b.was not wearing
c.wasn't wearing
Did you ever ____ all the insects when you were in the jungle
a. used to
b. be used to
c. get used to
c. get used to
After growing up in the countryside, Sam ____ living in a big city.
a. would
b. is getting used to
c. is used to
b. is getting used to
The children were doing their homework when I got home
Past continuous
When do you use the past simple?
Actions or situations that started in the past, actions which happened one after the other in the past, past routines and habits
When do you use the past continuous?
An action that was in progress at a point in time in the past, two or more actions that were in progress at the same time in the past, an action that was in progress in the past but was interrupted by another action, giving background information in a story
Steve ___ to his fathers hous to ___ him the news
to run
to tell
It 1.____ when we 2.___ home
1. a. was snowing
b. snowed
2. a. left
b. were leaving
a. was snowing
a. left