SIMPLE PAST VS. PAST PROGRESSIVE

SIMPLE PAST VS. PAST PROGRESSIVE

Differences and How to Identify Each Tense

index

1. Ice Breaker

8. Homework

2. Introduction to Chart 2.7

9. References

3. Video 1

4. Video 2

5. Grammar Quiz

6. Guided Practice

7. Independent Practice

ice breaker

EXERCISE 22 PAGE 43

Play

Join at www.kahoot.itJoin at www.kahoot.it

"The simple past tense is only used to say that something happened at some time in the past". (1)

"The past continuous tense is mainly used to talk about past events that were in progress at a particular point of time in the past". (1)

EXAMPLES: I was reading at 6 yesterday evening. She was getting ready for school at 9.30 yesterday morning. I was reading at 6 yesterday evening. She was getting ready for school at 9.30 yesterday morning.

EXAMPLES: I drank a beer at the Chinese restaurant yesterday. She forgot to call me in the morning. He went to visit her aunt in Guayaquil. I flew to Miami last year. I meet my sister's hudband during my trip to Argentina.

USAGE:

• Talk about events happening at the same time that something important happened in the past.

USAGE:

• Finished events in the past.
• Commonly use past time adverbs like yesterday, last week, last year etc.

We use a simple past sentence to express an action that happened in the middle of a longer action in past continuous sentence. (1)

EXAMPLES: She was taking a shower when her boyfriend called. ** We use the past continuous tense to refer to the longer background action (taking a shower), and the simple past tense to refer to the shorter action that happened in the middle (boyfriend called). They were playing videogames when the police knocked at the door.

01

interrupted actions

When we are talking about two longer actions that were in progress at the same time, we use the past continuous tense in both clauses. (1)

EXAMPLES: She was taking a shower while her boyfriend was ordering pizza. ** Both actions were happening at the same time: (taking a shower) (boyfriend was ordering pizza). Jenna and Tim were making breakfast while Jimmy was reading the newspaper.

02

parallel actions

it's important to determinate the sequence of actions (2)

VIDEO

Simple Past vs. Past Progressive: Differences

VIDEO

Simple Past vs. Past Progressive: Differences

grammar quiz

homework

EXERCISE 41 PAGE 56

GOOGLE FORM

Link

EXERCISE 39 PAGES 54-55

GOOGLE FORM

Link

references

1. English Grammar. Simple past and past continuous. https://www.englishgrammar.org/simple-continuous/#:~:text=The%20simple%20past%20tense%20is%20commonly%20used%20with%20past%20time,last%20week%2C%20last%20year%20etc.&text=The%20p ast%20continuous%20tense%20is,of%20time%20in%20the%20past. 2. British Council. Learn English. Past continuous and past simple https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/beginner-to-pre-intermediate/past-continuous-and-past-simple 3. Azar, Betty S. , Hagen, Stacy A. Fundamentals of English Grammar. Pearson. 2019