ELECTIVO

TECNOLOGÍA MÉDICA
 GUIDELINES

 Review your slides

 Review your readings

 Answer discussion forum

 TEMATIC CONTENTS

PAST PROGRESSIVE

 AFFIRMATIVE
 NEGATIVE
 QUESTIONS
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Review Simple Past Tense

• Actions, events, states that started and finished

in the past (…ago, last …, yesterday… )
• Regular verbs: -ed
• Irregular verbs: change spelling, memorize
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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?
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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 ?
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Remember –ing spelling rules?

 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

Pablo’s 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
progressive 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?
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• Use 2: Two (or more) actions that

were in progress in the past at the
same time

• Use while
• Examples:
Sorry, I wasn’t listening to you while
you were talking.
While I was reading, he was writing.
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• 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.

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A little practice
1. I (make) was making a deposit at my bank when a man in a mask (pull) pulled out a
gun and started to rob the bank.

2. I (drive) was driving to work when I (see) saw my neighbor’s door open and someone in
the house.

3. They (walk) were walking on the sidewalk when a car (hit) hit the person closest to the
road.

4. She (talk) was talking to a friend at the mall when a man (come) came up behind her and
(grab) grabbed her purse.

5. I (watch) was watching TV when I (hear) heard shouting and gunshots next door.

6. I (work) was working in the garden and my son (find) found some matches and (start)
__started a fire in the living room.
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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)
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• 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)
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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.