Copy - Copy - Gold Experience B2 Unit 2 On the bucket list

Unit 2 check

On the bucket list

What's on your bucket list?

By Nora Arregui

Past Continuous

We use the past continuous for:

Form Afirmative

• Actions that got interrupted in the past. I was getting ready to go out when I overheard my parents. Was it sometime in the past? Did you get interrupted?
• For plans that did not happen in the end. I was going to give it up but then I thought. No, I can't. Did you give up in the end? We can replace was going to for was due to. I was due to give up but then I thought. No, I can't.
• When we want to express irritation or when we want to describe an activity in the past in a negative way. I was always thinking up good excuses for not getting on with my homework. Were you excited to do your homework?

Subject + was/were + verb+ing

i was cleaning the car when I heard about the accident.

Negative

Subject + was/were + not + verb+ing

I wasn't cleaning the car when I heard about the accident.

Interrogative

Was/were + subject+ verb+ing

Was I cleaning the car when I heard about the accident?

Timeline

Past Perfect

We use the past perfect for:

Form Afirmative

• Actions, events and situations that happened before another past action. I hadn't realised that until my friend Anna and I binge-watched the series. Did it happen in the past? Did it happen after you binge-watched the series?

Subject + had + past participle

She had finished her homework when her friends arrived.

Negative

Subject + had + not + past participle

She hadn't finished her homework when her friends arrived.

Timeline

Interrogative

Had + subject + past participle

Had she finished her homework when her friends arrived?

Past Perfect Continuous

We use the past perfect continuous for:

Form Afirmative

• describing actions that were happening over a period of time before another action in the past. We had been watching a documentary about volcanoes.... what gave them the idea of Iceland. Did you watch the documentary for a while? Did you decide to visit Iceland after you watched the documentary for a while?

Subject + had + been + verb + ing

They had been playing tennis, then it started to rain.

Negative

Subject + had + not + past participle

They hadn't been playing tennis when it started to rain.

Timeline

Interrogative

Had + subject + past participle

Had they been playing tennis and then started to rain?

Articles

• We use 'the' + adjective to mean a particular group of people: the poor, the rich, the young, the French...
• We use the zero article or no article in front of uncountable nouns or plural nouns, unless we are refering to something in specific: the ultimate place would be hidden beaches, you need to have passion to be very good at something.
• We use a, an or the in set phrases: to be over the moon, go on a couple of trips, visitting new places gave me a buzz.

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