Mdulo:II Unidad:V Semana: I

INGLS V

Dr. MERCY PLIZA CHAMPI

SIMPLE PAST AND CONTINUOS
 ORIENTACIONES

Estimados alumnos, Recuerde que siempre tiene

que repasar las dispositivas antes de los exmenes.

Lea su Gua Didctica, si tiene alguna duda sobre la

gramtica de la semana.

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contexto, utilize su diccionario
 CONTENTS

SIMPLE PAST
AFFIRMATIVE
NEGATIVE
INTERROGATIVE
PAST CONTINUOS
VERB TO BE IN SIMPLE PAST
VERBS ENDING IN GERUND
 Simple Past Tense
Actions, events, states that started and
finished in the past (ago, last ,
yesterday )
Regular verbs: -ed
Irregular verbs: change spelling,
memorize
 QUESTIONS
What did you do yesterday?
What did you do last Saturday night?
Where were you last Sunday morning?
What did you do to celebrate your last
birthday?
When did you move to the U.S.?
When did you learn to drive?

How did you learn to speak English so

well?
 Past Continuous: Three Uses
Use 1: Past actions that were in progress at a particular
time in the past; actions that were not yet finished at a past
time

Pablos Schedule
8 9: had breakfast
9 10: finished his
homework
10 11: read the
newspaper
11 12: ate lunch
12 2: watched soccer
match on TV
2 5: took a nap
Tell a classmate use past
continuous verbs: I was _______ing
Where were you last Thursday at 8 p.m.?
What were you doing?
What were you doing Friday at 5 p.m.?
Where were you? Who were you with?
What were you doing Sunday morning at 7
a.m.?
What were you doing last night at this time?
What were you doing last week at this time?
What were you doing last year at this time?
 Past Continuous, continued
Use 2: Two (or more) actions that
were in progress in the past at the
same time

Use while
Examples:
Sorry, I wasnt listening to you while
you were talking.
While I was reading, he was writing.
 Past Continuous, continued
Use 3: Describe and set the scene; tell
what was happening or in progress when
something else happened or interrupted a
past in-progress action
Examples:
Car accident
Broken bone
A Crime
 Form: Using past and past
continuous together
Use past continuous
to say what was in
progress
I was crossing the
street
Use simple past for
the interrupting
action
when the driver ran
the red light.
 Other examples:

I was sleeping when the telephone rang and

woke me up.

He was driving too fast when he crashed the

car.
 More Examples:

We were watching the news when the

announcer made a special live report.

I was trying to study when you called.

Student examples:
 Form of Past Continuous

Subject + was / were + verb+ing

Negation:
Subject + was / were + not + verb+ing

Yes/ No Question:
Was / Were + subject + + verb+ing ?

Information Question:
(WH) + Was / Were + subject + + verb+ing ?
Remember ing spelling rules?
A little practice
1. I (make) ____________________ a deposit at my bank when a man
in a mask (pull) ____________________ out a gun and started to rob
the bank.
2. I (drive) ____________________ to work when I (see)
____________________ my neighbors door open and someone in
the house.
3. They (walk) on the sidewalk when a car (hit)
____________________ the person closest to the road.
4. She (talk) ____________________ to a friend at the mall when a
man (come) ____________________ up behind her and (grab)
____________________ her purse.
5. I (watch) ____________________ TV when I (hear) shouting and
gunshots next door.
6. I (work) ____________________ in the garden and my son (find)
____________________ some matches and (start)
____________________ a fire in the living room.
 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)
 Use while for two actions in progress at the
same time in the past:
She was talking while he was driving.
Use when when telling about sequence of
events (one action that was in progress
that was interrupted by another event in
the past):
I was just leaving when you called.
(first action in progress) (interrupting
event)
 Punctuation
with When and While
When and while at the front of a
sentence, use a comma:
When you called, I was watching TV.
While he was washing the clothes, I
was doing the dishes.
When and while in the middle of a
sentence, no comma
I was watching TV when you called.
I was doing the dishes while he was
washing the clothes.
 Punctuation
with When and While
When and while at the front of a
sentence, use a comma:
When you called, I was watching TV.
While he was washing the clothes, I
was doing the dishes.
When and while in the middle of a
sentence, no comma
I was watching TV when you called.
I was doing the dishes while he was
washing the clothes.
THANKS