• 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 b[r]
(1)Past Tense and Past Continuous Verbs
Kristi Reyes ESL 899:
(2)Simple Past Tense
• Actions, events, states that started and finished in the past (…ago, last …,
yesterday… )
• Regular verbs: -ed
• Irregular verbs: change spelling,
memorize
for list of irregular verbs, see
1. Blackboard Course Documents, Verb Tenses, Past Tense folder 2. Grammar Express textbook pages 336 - 337
(3)Tell your partner – use past tense verbs!
• What did you yesterday? • What did you Friday night?
• Where were you Saturday morning?
• What did you to celebrate your last birthday? • When did you move to the U.S.?
• Why did you start taking classes at MiraCosta College?
(4)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
Erika’s Schedule
8 – 9: had breakfast 9 – 10: finished her homework
10 – 11: exercised
11 – 12: cooked lunch 12 – 2: shopped
2 – 5: talked to a friend on the phone
At 8:30, Erika _ breakfast
At 9:15, she _ her homework
(5)Tell a classmate – use past
continuous verbs: I was _ing
• Where were you last Thursday at p.m.? What were you doing?
• What were you doing Friday at p.m.? Where were you? Who were you with?
• What were you doing Sunday morning at a.m.?
(6)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 wasn’t listening to you while you were talking
(7)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
(8)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
(9)Other examples:
I was sleeping when the telephone rang
and woke me up.
He was driving too fast when he crashed
(10)More Examples:
(11)Practice:
Do you have a good memory? Are you a good witness?
• Directions: Look at the following picture for one minute Try to remember as many details as you can, but don’t write
(12)Only one minute…
(13)(14)What you remember? How many people were there?
2 Where were the people?
3 What was hanging from the ceiling? What was the bank robber holding? What was the bank robber wearing? What color was his hair?
7 What was covering the bank robber’s face?
8 Was the bank robber right-handed or left-handed? What was the bank manager doing?
(15)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:
(16)Remember –ing spelling rules?
Verb ending in How to make the -ING form Examples
(Most verbs) Add -ING say - sayinggo - going walk - walking
1 vowel + consonant Double the consonant, then add -ING swim - swimminghit - hitting get - getting
1 vowel + consonant + E Remove E, then add –ING
come - coming lose - losing
live – living
(17)A little practice
1 The telephone (ring) when I (take a shower) I (eat) dinner when you (come) to visit
3 It (begin) to rain while they (walk) home
4 We (see) an accident when we (drive) on the freeway
5 The driver (no pay) attention to the cars in front when he (crash) into the red convertible
6 She (chop) onions when she (cut) her finger They (watch) TV when the electricity (go) out
(18)Final Tips …
• 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.
(19)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
(20)Questions?
• Practice on textbook pages 42 - 43 • For more practice:
Forming and Using the Past Continuous Quiz Yourself